ALBUM REVIEW: OPEN BAR BY PKEW PKEW PKEW

Matt Owczarz

Originally published in Exclaim!

Pkew Pkew Pkew won over listeners with their everyman personalities and apathetic outlook, singing about working terrible day jobs, growing older and burning out, but also about drinking with friends, skateboarding and passing out on the couch — often within the same songs. Despite their literal lyricism and a catalogue full of tracks with offbeat titles (“Let’s Order A Pizza,” “I Wanna See a Wolf,” etc.), there’s always been a remarkable amount of nuance and clear-eyed aphorisms baked into their songwriting.

Concert Review: The Flatliners, Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto

Matt Owczarz

Originally published in Modern Mississauga.

A punk rock show must go on despite strange weather like blistering heat turning into a heavy downpour. On August 17, The Chevrolet Indie Fridays’ concert series presented a free show at Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square, featuring The Flatliners with opening acts The Penske File and Pkew Pkew Pkew. The Flatliners were throwing on the show as a super sweet 16 party for themselves, celebrating their time together as a band.