If you were going to grow a pop-punk voice in a lab, you couldn't do much better than Chris Hannah, the man who has led Canadian institution Propagandhi since he and drummer/co-founder Jord Samolesky were teenagers in Winnipeg more than 30 years ago. Hannah's voice is a near-perfect fusion between the adenoidal needle-whine style that NOFX's Fat Mike perfected and the burly growl that I tend to associate with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba. He can carry a melody and hit a big hook, and there's enough ragged passion in his throat that his choruses can lift toward anthemic status whenever he wants. But he's also a quick-witted, malleable vocalist, and he can cram storms of syllables into his lines without ever sounding like he's forcing it -- which is good, since that's what he likes to do. Hannah was a big deal during the '90s pop-punk boom, at least in part because he found ways to sound both more obnoxious and more committed than anyone around him. And his voice has weathered beautifully with age; on Victory Lap, Propagandhi's seventh album, he sounds sharp and muscular. He's got a hell of an instrument. And here's a line that he uses that instrument to deliver on Victory Lap's very first song: "When the free-market fundamentalist steps on a roadside bomb outside Kandahar bleeding to death / I swear to Ayn Rand I’ll ask if he needs an invisible hand."