Billy Talent - "Try Honesty" feat. Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel

Billy Talent arrived fully-formed, just in time to convert a generation of Canadian pre-teens onto the promise of punk. Matt Bobkin and Adam Feibel, authors of In Too Deep: When Canadian Punks Took Over the World, are on the pod to explain how this band of Mississauga misfits helped bring hardcore into the mainstream.

Also discussed: "Young & Dumb", David Crosby, 60s California pop/00s Cancon pop punk connections, Pezz, Big in Germany, gateway music, At the Drive-In, not knowing who At the Drive-In is, enunciation, guitar heroes, suburban bands vs city bands and much more.