KINGSTON CELEBRATES THE TRAGICALLY HIP A CONVERSATION WITH JAYSON DUGGAN, PERFORMING ARTS MANAGER WITH THE CITY OF KINGSTON 2026 is the summer of the Tragically Hip in Kingston. In honour of the 10th anniversary of their final concert played in [...]
DEEP PURPLE SPLAT! EARMUSIC Splat! is Deep Purple’s 24th studio album, and their first since 2024’s hugely successful =1. The band features three of the classic line-up of the band, Ian Paice (drums), Roger Glover (bass), and Ian Gillan [...]
PAT TRAVERS HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED – LIVE IN HOUSTON, TX – MARCH 20, 2004 CLEOPATRA RECORDS Pat Travers continues to mine his live archive for never-before-released concerts for fans to enjoy. And it’s great that he does it too. This [...]
MISSOULA DEATH DOULA ORG MUSIC Missoula is an instrumental superstar project from drummer Brooks Wackerman (Avenged Sevenfold, Bad Religion) and guitarist John Konesky (Tenacious D). This is not surf or ambient or meditative instrumental music. [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS DIGGING YOUR SCENE – NEW POP & ALL THAT JAZZ 1982-1987 CHERRY RED RECORDS Hot on the heels of 2024’s Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983, Cherry Red offers a rather lengthy but never boring four-CD set, Digging Your [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS REMIX/REMODEL – THE VINCE CLARKE REMIXES CHERRY RED RECORDS Vince Clarke is well known as a solo artist, musician, and one-time member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo, and The Assembly, and as a current member of Doublespeak and Erasure. [...]
LET’S JUST START AGAIN A CONVERSATION WITH NICK HEYWARD & LES NEMES OF HAIRCUT 100 When Nick Heyward left Haircut 100 officially in 1983, Haircut 100 soldiered on for their second album, Paint and Paint, while Heyward went on to a solo [...]
HAIRCUT 100 BOXING THE COMPASS OCTOBER IS ORANGE LTD. Haircut 100 burst on the scene in 1981 with their impressive and massive debut single “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)”. The following year they released their debut album, the influential [...]
MARY KARLZEN FOR ALL THAT WE DREAMED OF Y&T MUSIC Since 1992, Mary Karlzen has been working on her skills, both as a songwriter and singer, and she has made some fantastic albums. Since her self-titled 1992 debut, she has continued to tell [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS JUST LOOK INSIDE THE COVER – SONGS OF PETE HAM Y&T MUSIC Over the past two years, Y&T Music has done an incredible job honouring the memory and legacy of Pete Ham and Badfinger. They released two albums of his demos [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS STANZE FREDDE VOL. 3 STANZE FREDDE RECORDS Stanze Fredde is an independent label based in Turin, Italy, and this particular album, Stanze Fredde Vol. 3, is a sampler featuring some of the artists who release music on the label. [...]
KINGSTON CELEBRATES THE TRAGICALLY HIP In 1984, a group surfaced in Kingston and started making waves, especially in local pubs, such as Clarke Hall Pub, Alfies and at Queen’s University Pubs. The Tragically Hip began getting shows in Ontario, [...]
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD ALIVE A WAY WITH MEDIA Following 2023’s brilliant Public Image Ltd. album, End Of World, Johnny Lydon lost his wife, Nora (with whom he had been since 1979), and his longtime manager, John Rambo Stevens. No one knew what Lydon [...]
YES AURORA INSIDEOUT Aurora is the second Yes album featuring the lineup of Jon Davison (lead vocals acoustic guitars), Steve Howe (guitars banjo guitar, mandolin, autoharp and vocals), Geoff Downes (organ, synthesizers, piano, keyboards, [...]
JON SPENCER SONGS OF PERSONAL LOSS AND PROTEST SHOVE RECORDS Jon Spencer is back with his first album since 2024’s Sick Of Being Sick!. With this album, Songs Of Personal Loss And Protest, Spencer is joined by his touring trio, Kendall Wind [...]
SWEET LIVE AT THE CAPITOL (HANNOVER 1991) METALVILLE Sweet continues to mine their archives for another (re) release of live material from the early 1990s. And this is an extremely good thing. Sweet is usually lumped in with ‘glam’ bands or AM [...]
MIDGE URE A MAN OF TWO WORLDS CHRYSALIS It has been 12 years since Midge Ure released a studio album of new material (in 2024 he did release The Sessions (Backstage Lockdown Club) which was a studio album of him revisiting older songs recorded [...]
KALEO A/B (10th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) RHINO RECORDS Kaleo formed in Mosfellsbær, Iceland in 2012 and is still going strong. In 2016 they released a landmark album that earned them numerous accolades, awards and high chart placements. When [...]
A BEAUTIFUL, CRAZY KIND OF ART FORM A CONVERSATION WITH JON SPENCER Jon Spencer has been playing his own style of music for over 40 years. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion really did explode on the scene in 1991 with their classic album A Reverse [...]
LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY & MOUSE ON MARS SPATIAL, NO PROBLEM DOMINO RECORDS Lee “Scratch” Perry passed away on August 29, 2021. The music world lost a true original and an artist who had worked with just about everyone. But that didn’t mean he [...]
FIREBUG DUST AND ECHOES BUDDHA BELT RECORDS FireBug has been making music since 2017. The core of FireBug is Juliette Tworsey (lead vocal, guitar, slide guitar, piano, organ) and Jules Shapiro (lead guitar, synthesizer, bass). This EP, Dust and [...]
JALEN NGONDA DOCTRINE OF LOVE DAPTONE RECORDS Jalen Ngonda burst on the scene in 2023 with his debut album, Come Around And Love Me, and justifiably earned critical acclaim for his own style of soul music that owes a great deal of debt to Motown [...]
THROTTLE BODY M/C ALL THAT WAS GREEN MONKEY RECORDS Throttle Body M/C is really a project for Jerry Hammack, a well-known engineer, producer, writer, and musician. Hammack played all the instruments, produced, wrote, and engineered the album, so [...]
FIVE MEMBERS WORKING TOGETHER IN HARMONY A CONVERSATION WITH JON DAVISON OF YES Yes formed in London in 1968 with their debut album Yes being released one year later. The original line-up of Yes was the founding members Jon Anderson (vocals, [...]
