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Punk Oral History Tells Viletones Trip to NYC: Play CBGBs, Get Stabbed, Blow 'SNL'

  • Posted on Feb 3rd 2010 2:30PM by Liz Worth
It's been said that they were famous before they ever played a show. With an unpredictable singer and an unbridled sound, legendary Toronto punks the Viletones were just as known for their antics on and off stage as they were for iconic underground songs like 'Screamin' Fist.' Although the history of the Toronto first-wave punk scene fell into ...

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