Alex Southey Common Fantasies Independent Alex Southey is an extremely prolific writer/performer and Common Fantasies is another selection of songs from him to keep his audience on their toes and to keep them guessing. Although he is known to [...]
closetjudas entelechy Independent Mike Powell is closetjudas and entelechy is his most recent EP. It is the followup to 2019’s lunacy + the second naïveté. Since 2016 closejudas has released quite a bit of music and entelechy continues to show [...]
HEY, LET’S PUT ON A SHOW A CONVERSATION WITH DIRECTOR RON CHAPMAN & CONCERT PROMOTER JOHN BROWER There are rock events in history that have a lasting effect on society. It is never known at the time that history is being made, but it [...]
REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD PHOTON FILMS/MYRIAD PICTURES DECEMBER 16, 2022 Revival69 is a famous, yet little spoken about, rock festival that happened in Toronto. The concert became well-known and legendary thanks to a top ten [...]
Cheap Trick Live At The Whisky 1977 Real Gone Music Cheap Trick was not an overnight success. The band formed as Cheap Trick, in 1973 after having been together in one configuration or another since 1967. In 1975 Robin Zander joined the band [...]
Terry Draper Bread And Cirkus Terry Tunes Records Terry Draper is back with a new album, his best album to date. Bread And Cirkus is an album of 14 songs which are musically diverse. It is musically and lyrically a brilliant album. Klaatu, of [...]
I’M TALKIN’ ABOUT A LIFETIME PLAN REMINISCING WITH GRAEHAM GOBLE OF LITTLE RIVER BAND “Toronto? We played there once. The El Mocambo Club. The most memorable show, maybe, in my whole career. Incredible! Because, the audience was [...]
THE ROCK AND COAL BREAKDOWN SPILL MAGAZINE DISSECTS SOME OF THE BEST/WORST 2022 CHRISTMAS RELEASES (PART ONE) Christmastime is here again, ain’t been around since you know when….that means new Christmas music. This year, there seems to be a lot [...]
Shriekback Bowlahoola Shriekprods Shriekback was formed in 1981, and now in 2022 the band’s core is Barry Andrews (one of the founders of the band), Carl Marsh (who has been with the band since the beginning) and Martyn Barker (who joined the [...]
David Crosby & The Lighthouse Band Live At The Capitol Theatre Three Blind Mice/BMG It is hard to believe that Live At The Capitol Theatre is David Crosby’s third solo live album. Why it is hard to believe is because Crosby has been more [...]
Little River Band Ultimate Hits/Masterpieces Universal Music A Little River Band revival is long overdue and therefore it is perfect timing for these collections to be released. Ultimate Hits and Masterpieces are two separate albums but should [...]
Elvis Presley Elvis On Tour RCA/Sony From January 1972 through to November 1972, Elvis Presley performed 96 concerts in 15 cities, which included his famous and quite frankly, triumphant shows at Madison Square Garden. Several of the shows were [...]
Nazz Lost Masters & Demos Purple Pyramid Records/Cleopatra Records Nazz exploded on the scene in 1967 with their debut single “Open My Eyes”, which was a commercial failure at the time but has gone on to legendary status. And rightfully so, [...]
WHO SONGS? I DON’T KNOW ANY A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN ENTWISTLE’S PARTNER-IN-CRIME STEVE LUONGO Steve Luongo is one of the most respected and talented musicians in rock music today. He is known for his steady beat as a drummer but he [...]
Ringo Starr And His All-Starr Band Live At The Greek Theatre 2019 Rocabella/BFD/Sony After The Beatles split up, all four of The Beatles talked about their love of playing in bands and each one joined bands, Paul McCartney had Wings, George [...]
Jean-Michel Jarre The Concerts In China (40th Anniversary Edition) Sony Music In 1981, Jean-Michel Jarre became the first western artist to tour China. He performed five concerts in Shanghai and Beijing. During the short tour, he recorded the [...]
Selina Martin Time Spent Swimming Independent “Got a hole in my heart/And I can’t fill it up” sings Selina Martin in the opening track, “Tangier” from her new album Time Spent Swimming. The music is electronic and sparse, and her voice comes in [...]
Soundwalk Collective With Patti Smith The Perfect Vision: Reworkings Bella Union In 2019, Soundwalk Collective began working with Patti Smith, and over the next two years, the band and Smith would release three brilliant albums. Each of the [...]
PETER ULRICH – DRUMMING WITH DEAD CAN DANCE & PARALLEL ADVENTURES. A MEMOIR RED HEN PRESS/INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICE BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Dead Can Dance formed in their native Australia in 1981. The core of the band was (and is) [...]
ONCE I WAS HERE A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID PALFREYMAN “I was a trombone player from an early age and first performed when I was around 10 years old,” says David Palfreyman. “I eventually moved to guitar/vocals then writing my own songs in the [...]
TUBULAR BELLS 50th ANNIVERSARY TOUR KALEIDOSCOPE FILMS/CLEOPATRA ENTERTAINMENT NOVEMBER 18, 2022 In 2021, music arranger and producer Robin Smith was tasked with bringing Tubular Bells to the stage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic [...]
The Palfreyman Collective The Palfreyman Collective Diteli Media In 2017, David Palfreyman and Nicholas Pegg released the ambitious and brilliant album Decades. Since that album Palfreyman has come up with a new project, The Palfreyman [...]
Loreena McKennitt Under A Winter’s Moon Quinlan Road Loreena McKennitt is no stranger to Christmas/seasonal albums. She has released two studio albums in the past full of Christmas and Holiday cheer. She is also no stranger to recording [...]
Joan Armatrading Live At Asylum Chapel BMG Joan Armatrading came into the consciousness of music lovers in 1972, with her debut album Whatever’s For Us. She was known as a singer-songwriter and her reputation grew throughout the past 50 years. [...]
