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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Gonna start a band called Vintage Blind Faith

Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

According to the Meta memory machine, six years ago tonight, I attended my first post-COVID-lockdown concert, held on the rooftop of a parking garage with chairs set up six feet apart and The Sadies performing behind plexiglass. Feels like 60 years ago.

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I guess you could say this car is undergoing reHabilitation?

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And the winner or the 2026 Polaris Music Prize is…

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The tits are out and bouncing for Slash Need’s tribute to Peaches at @polarismusicprize.bsky.social

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is not a photograph… It’s a video of Roger Miller from Mission of Burma performing solo last night in Hamilton. His new album ‘The Green Man’ just came out and he’s playing Toronto on Sunday night at BSMT254. Don’t sleep on this opportunity to see a legend who’s still showing us how it’s done.

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jon Spencer: 61 years old, 80-minute set, zero between-song breaks, 100% fun

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This must be worth at least $3.25 now

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Make corporate advertising anti-fascist again

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nice to see @markhamillofficial.bsky.social repping for Gerry & The Pacemakers, Rory Storm & The Hurricanes, and some other Liverpudlian band at FanExpo

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Vintage-toy vendor at FanExpo has, like, 10 random used CDs for sale, and of course one of them is Monster

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

October 9 is like SXSW in Hamilton, except you can bounce from club-to-club to see different Tragically Hip tribute bands

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I feel like David Cronenberg getting a guest feature on the Charli XCX record is worthy of a Canadian Heritage Minute ad

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

After a long day, it was nice of Hillside to schedule a late-night yoga class

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

While everyone’s at the Jack White/Angine de Poitrine show at the Amphitheatre tonight, I’ll be watching Geese

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Got to see the Original Angine de poi Trine

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Happy Mahashmashana to those who celebrate

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Nice bonus at my first Toronto Tempo game: free Charlotte Day Wilson concert!

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gonna start a band called Anthrx.

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Damn, someone beat me to my idea to open a record store that only sells Iron Maiden’s Piece of Mind

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I’ve always thought “In View” was The Tragically Hip’s most indie-rock-sounding song, so thank you to @weirdnightmare.bsky.social for proving me right.

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

This needs to be a Canadian Heritage Minute

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Gonna start a band called Fontaine DC

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

According to Facebook, 10 years ago today I travelled to London UK, where the tabloids did not disappoint

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I think I found a solution to bananagate that should satisfy all parties

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Also, I didn’t realize Keith Morris is now playing cowbell for The Guess Who

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Nothing in the history of Canada will ever be as Canadian as The Guess Who singing an anti-gun song in front of a massive Canadian flag with a big fucking beaver head on the maple leaf

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

At the #hamont launch for Rough Description, aka the new memoir from Don Pyle, aka the only guy I know who’s opened for the Jesus and Mary Chain in ‘85, co-written the Kids in the Hall theme, played with Fred Schneider, and punk’d his local barber-training academy with fake Patti Smith hair-dye ads

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Hey hey #hamont: I'll be hosting the local launch event for Rollie Pemberton's (@cadenceweapon.bsky.social) new book 'Ways of Listening' this Thursday (7pm) at Epic Books. There will be Qs, and As!

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is one of those bills that gets wilder as the font gets smaller

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Hey #hamont pals: I'll be joining @camgordon.bsky.social tomorrow (Sunday, May 24, 1pm) at Merit Brewing to talk about his fascinating new book 'Track Changes: The Origin Story of Canadian Music on the Interent, 1990-2010' and our shared experinences in the post-Y2K wilds of music journalism.

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We really erred as a nation by not making The Hidden Cameras’ “Boys of Melody” Canada’s national anthem

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Canadian Tire on the vanguard of the green energy revolution

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Went to see Richard Hell do a reading tonight, and goddamn, dude looks spectacular for a 76-year-old who’s lived, like, 20 lives

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Is U2 performing atop a bus instead of a rooftop a recession indicator?

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Your periodic reminder that all rock 'n' roll is a psyop

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My newsletter now has a “Listen” button, so you can experience my prose the way it was meant to be heard: through the stilted voice of a slightly bored British podcaster! open.substack.com/pub/stuberma...

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I know the kneejerk aging-rock-critic response to a new Rolling Stones album is to call it "their best since Some Girls," but I do think this is at least their best album cover since Some Girls

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Look at this photograph / Every time I do, it makes me laugh / How did our eyes get so red /

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Stuart Berman @stuberman.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Get Angine de Poitrine tickets at a discount!

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