LOVE VERSUS A CONVERSATION WITH LEEROY STAGGER From punk rock to roots rock, Leeroy Stagger took his career from the hard edged Staggers to a roots rock solo outfit that is carving a deep path from coast to Canadian coast. Having learned the ropes very early in his musical [...]
Dinosaur Jr @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto March 10, 2017 When J Mascis and Dinosaur Jr. roll into town, the mandate is simply to be the there without question. When the show was announced in December, social media was buzzing hard and the consensus on Facebook and Twitter [...]
Prophets Of Rage @ Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto August 24, 2016 When the initial announcements came out about supergroup Prophets of Rage, with Rage Against The Machine members Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk and replacement singers B-Real (Cypress Hill) and Chuck-D [...]
ROSE CORA PERRY AND THE TRUTH UNTOLD AN INTERVIEW WITH ROSE CORA PERRY In the early 2000s, Rose Cora Perry was busy making a name for herself and her London, Ontario-based band Anti-Hero. It was a group that truly gave Rose the much-needed experience with recording, touring, [...]
Jadea Kelly Love & Lust Darth Jadea Music Jadea Kelly gets straight to the point with honest and heartfelt lyrics such as, “I wanna drown it. Way I feel. If I do does it make the heat less real?” These lines are surely apropos in opening this dark and sensitive album of [...]
Rhine An Outsider Independent Rhine’s latest full-length release, An Outsider, opens with seriously ominous sounds that will intentionally bend your mind in preparation for its impending sonic doom. The Seattle-based band has a unique brand of melodic tech metal that [...]
Black Sabbath Past Lives (Reissue) Warner Music Canada With the end of Black Sabbath’s career rapidly approaching, the band strategically reissued some of their best albums including the long-out-of-print Past Lives, now released with a digitally remastered treatment. These [...]
Jen Foote Rock Chapel Road Independent The first thing that stands out on Jen Foote’s Rock Chapel Road full length release is the superb production quality and playing that supports her wonderfully comforting voice. The producer and musician behind the technical wizardry is [...]
Odium Terraform Year Of The Sun Records Delivering a punishing new album titled Terraform, Hanover, Ontario Canada’s Odium is set to crush the masses with 11 new songs. This melodic genre of death metal gives you the best of two worlds with dreamy soundscapes and deadly [...]
Windhand Grief’s Infernal Flower Relapse Records As the sounds of a crackling bonfire introduce Windhand’s stunning new album, the band delivers the goods precisely at the 32-second mark, showcasing first-rate songwriting, studio production and killer vocal styling from [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats @ Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto September 17th, 2015 Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats descended on Toronto for their second tour of duty on September 17 to an eager mixed crowd of metal heads, stoners and hippies. This was in contrast to last [...]
Iron Maiden The Book Of Souls Warner Music Canada After 40 years of blistering metal, Iron Maiden is back with their 17th studio album, The Book of Souls. The band has not changed their potent recipe of writing, recording and producing; what they deliver on The Book of Souls [...]
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats The Night Creeper Rise Above Records With Uncle Acid’s 4th full length release set to disturb the masses, Night Creeper assaults your psyche with doom and fury, peaks and valleys and bloody undertones that will lead to your inevitable demise. [...]
Beach House Depression Cherry Sub Pop Musically, it’s rare to find a dreamier band than Baltimore’s Beach House. Depression Cherry is yet another amazing example of their musical power. Since their incredible self-titled debut album in 2006, it’s always intriguing to see what [...]
Great Lake Swimmers A Forest Of Arms Nettwerk / Weewerk A Forest of Arms is a collection of profound and musically dynamic tracks that runs deeper than meets the ear. The stunning acoustics on this 6th studio album by Toronto folk rock darlings Great Lake Swimmers are credited [...]
C & C Surf Factory Garage City Six Sooter Records C & C Surf Factory is a band with a great blend of garage-based rockabilly and surf guitar jams, brought to you by Toronto axe masters Colin Cripps and “Champagne” James Robertson. Their debut album Garage City will [...]
Loopity Goofs Secret Gems Hidden Weapons Black Crack Records The long awaited, debut full-length album from Toronto’s Loopity Goofs is LOADED with killer beats, sample and grooves. Gord Shields and Scott Atherton are the brains behind this groove ensemble and have been [...]
Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell Asthmatic Kitty The entrancing sound of Sufjan Stevens’ unmistakable music is beautiful. The unpredictable yet cohesive sonic journey through his new album Carrie & Lowell will undoubtedly hold your attention from start to finish. The [...]
Cannibal Corpse / Behemoth / Aeon @ The Phoenix, Toronto February 24th, 2015 Sweaty bodies and by a barrage of death metal ripping through the venue’s PA system greeted fans upon setting foot into the jam-packed Phoenix Concert Theatre on the evening of Feb. 24, 2015. [...]
Danko Jones Fire Music New Damage Records The return of Danko Jones comes with great timing, challenging a music scene that is overrun by shoeless, whistling and clapping hipster bands. Their new release Fire Music cuts through the crap and brings headbanging back to center [...]
