MIDGE URE @ CLASSIC BOWL, MISSISSAUGA NOVEMBER 8, 2021 It was somewhat doubtful that this show was even going to happen. Originally scheduled the previous Saturday, it was postponed due to Midge Ure having issues getting into Canada through no [...]
Martha And The Muffins Marthology: In And Outtakes Popguru Sound And Vision The last Martha And The Muffins album was Delicate, released in 2010. It seemed that that would be their last as a group for a number of reasons. By then Martha And The [...]
Terry Draper The Other Side Magentalane Music For my money, Klaatu did not release enough albums. Terry Draper, however, is doing his best to make up for that. One third of Klaatu, he is remarkably prolific. In 2020 he released two albums [...]
Alan Parsons The NeverEnding Show: Live In The Netherlands Frontiers Music SRL Alan Parsons started his musical life as a studio-only musician, as well as an engineer and producer. He famously worked on The Beatles’s Abbey Road, Pink Floyd’s [...]
Jessica Lee Morgan Change The Record Space Records Jessica Lee Morgan returns with her fifth studio album. Change The Record is somewhat of a departure for Morgan as she returns to her love of electronic music, which was hinted at on her first [...]
HOLD ON, WITH BOTH HANDS A CONVERSATION WITH PLUM GREEN + A SPILL EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE “A stranger lures you into the forest, following the wraith deeper and deeper until you become lost. You entwine yourself with its shadows and vines [...]
Fergus Hambleton Jazz Lovers Society Vol. 2 G-Three As with some of the classic jazz albums of the past, Fergus Hambleton has assembled a trio, featuring Rob McBride on bass, John Adams on drums and himself on guitar, clarinet, alto sax, piano [...]
Various Artists Songs Inspired By The Film The Beatles And India Silva Screen Records Songs Inspired By The Film The Beatles And India is not what you expect. This is a two CD set to accompany the new documentary The Beatles And India. The first [...]
Tori Amos Ocean To Ocean Decca/Universal Ocean to Ocean is Tori Amos’s 16th studio album. It is her first album since 2017’s Native Invader, although she did release a Christmas themed E.P. (Christmastide) last year, as well as a best-selling [...]
Al Stewart Time Passages (Limited Edition Box Set) Esoteric Recordings Last year Esoteric Records, with help from Al Stewart, released the 45th anniversary edition of Year Of The Cat. It only makes sense that his follow-up, Time Passages, [...]
The Beatles Let It Be (Super Deluxe) Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music The history of Let It Be is a long and somewhat complicated story. Paul McCartney proposed that The Beatles return to their roots and become a strong four-piece unit once [...]
Robin Guthrie Mockingbird Love Soleil Après Minuit The Cocteau Twins called it a day in 1997, since then, Robin Guthrie has been very busy carving out his own distinct solo career. Mockingbird Love is his latest EP and it is quite glorious. It [...]
IT’S FIVE TO FIVE AND TIME FOR CRACKERJACK! A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL ARTHUR OF BLANCMANGE “I’m busy, but it’s what I do, really. In a way, it’s kind of an escape and also a way for me coping with everything that is going on. I run into my [...]
Yes The Quest Inside Out Music In the early 1970s, Yes, along with such bands as Gentle Giant, Genesis and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, helped create prog rock. They wore the name proudly, as they should, and over the years have produced some of [...]
Maria Elena Silva Eros Big Ego Records Chris Schlarb, who produced, mixed and plays guitar on Eros, describes Maria Elena Silva’s debut album for his Big Ego Records label as “a delicate art-pop record with an improvisational-jazz [...]
TRUE PILLARS OF LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH GEOFF DOWNES OF YES In 1968, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire, Peter Banks and Bill Bruford came together and formed the band Yes. Originally Yes not only wrote and performed their own material, but would also [...]
Blancmange Commercial Break Blanc Check Records Commercial Break is Blancmange’s 14th album, and their second 2021 release since (Nil By Mouth III was released in March). Blancmange is really Neil Arthur, working, once again, with Benge. Here, [...]
Caroline Marie Brooks Everything At The Same Time Outside Music It is always great to hear an artist who grew up in my home town of Whitby, which is where Caroline Marie Brooks spent her early years and got her start performing with her family [...]
Ringo Starr Change The World Ume/Universal Music Ringo Starr is back! Six months since his first official EP, here he is with another one, Change The World. Once again, Starr is working with his famous friends, and he knocks it out of the park. [...]
Mandoki Soulmates Utopia For Realists: Hungarian Pictures Century Media Records Leslie Mándoki (Mándoki László) was born in Budapest, Hungary and had to flee the country in 1975 to Munich, West Germany to avoid persecution from the Communist [...]
Alex Southey My Nights On The Island Independent There are two things you need to know about Alex Southey. First, the man is remarkably prolific. My Nights On The Island follows his last album, …And The Country Stirred which was released [...]
Gordie Tentrees Mean Old World Buckaroo Records Mean Old World is Yukon-based Gordie Tentrees seventh album, and is his first since 2018’s GRIT. With a title like Mean Old World, one would think this is a depressing folk album. Don’t let the [...]
AND WHERE THE HELL ARE ALL MY FRIENDS? A CONVERSATION WITH TIM BUTLER OF THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS Tim Butler, along with his brother Richard, is the co-founder of The Psychedelic Furs, a post-punk band that got their start in London in 1977. In [...]
20 SECONDS OF SOMETHING A CONVERSATION WITH STAN HARRISON Stan Harrison has been making music for a long time. Though best known as a saxophonist, he is also an accomplished woodwind player. He has released two critically acclaimed solo albums, [...]
