Van Morrison And Joey DeFrancesco You’Re Driving Me Crazy Sony Music/Legacy Recordings Van Morrison fans are having a good year. You’re Driving me Crazy is Van Morrison’s third album since September, 2017. Quite a remarkable feat by [...]
TRON MEETS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT A CONVERSATION WITH VINCE CLARKE OF ERASURE In 1985 Vince Clarke placed an ad in the music magazine Melody Maker looking for a vocalist for his new project. By 1985, Clarke was already a veteran in the music [...]
DESERTS, ECHOES & DAD A CONVERSATION WITH DOM FRICOT “I have been very transient for the last four years, and it is really hard to carry albums around everywhere, but I love vinyl. When my music gets pressed on vinyl, I will know I have [...]
Drinks Hippo Lite Birth Records Hippo Lite is one of the most unique albums released this year. Simply put, it is brilliant. Drinks is made up of Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fence) and Hippo Lite is their second album as Drinks. It is [...]
Strvngers Amor/Noir Negative Gain Strvngers is a Canadian duo, and Armor/Noir is their third album, and perhaps their most accessible. Hailing from small town Alberta, Maria Joaquin (vocals) and KC (music) have honed their craft very well on [...]
Hyways Hyways Union Zero Hyways hail from Seattle, and Hyways is their self-titled debut album. The band consists of Mike Giacolino (lead vocal, guitar, harmonica), Nils Petersen (bass, keyboards, backing vocals), Jay Kardong (pedal steel, [...]
The Free Label This Some Kind Of Love Independent The Free Label is five piece band, based in Toronto. This Some Kind Of Love is their debut EP and although it contains only three songs, it does demonstrate a band on their way to creating their [...]
Pete Townshend Who Came First – 45th Anniversary Expanded Edition Universal Music Enterprises Pete Townshend’s Who Came First was first issued in 1972 and followed The Who’s biggest success to that point, Who’s Next. Who Came First, which [...]
THERE’S REALLY NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN FLANAGAN John Flanagan may be described as a singer/songwriter from Australia, but that is only one part of who he is and what he does. John Flanagan is an artist, and along [...]
CHILEAN SHOEGAZE FOR THE MASSES A CONVERSATION WITH MAFF Maff is a quartet, originally from and still based in Chile. Melaniña is their second release, following their debut album Maff (2014). The band consists of Ricardo Gomez (vocals, [...]
TO THE BONE A CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN WILSON Late in the summer of 2017, Steven Wilson released his fifth solo album To The Bone. It was surprising to many that the album entered the U.K. Official Album charts in the top three. Wilson’s highest [...]
The Damned Evil Spirits Search And Destroy/Spinefarm Records The Damned formed in London in 1976 and many would argue they released the first U.K. ‘punk’ single that year, “New Rose” — a very influential record and band. They went on to [...]
Juliana Hatfield Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John American Laundromat Records Juliana Hatfield has been around a while. Her resume is quite extensive and impressive: The Blake Babies, The Lemonheads, The Juliana Hatfield Three and her [...]
John Prine The Tree Of Forgiveness Oh Boy/Sony Music A new album from John Prine is always reason to celebrate, but an album in which he wrote or co-wrote all the songs is an even bigger reason to rejoice. The Tree of Forgiveness is the first [...]
John Cooper Clarke @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto April 12, 2018 It was a night of Manchester poetry in Toronto on April 12, 2018. John Cooper Clarke made a triumphant return on a cold Thursday night, but for the near sold out crowd at Lee’s [...]
TWO FRIENDS STANDING STRONG IN FRONT OF THEIR MOSCOW APARTMENT A CONVERSATION WITH BRIGHID FRY & PASCALE PADILLA OF MOSCOW APARTMENT Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla are two high school friends who have another identity. They are Moscow [...]
Maff Melaniña Independent Maff is a quartet, originally from and still based in Chile. Melaniña is their second release, following their debut album Maff (2014). The band consists of Ricardo Gomez (vocals, guitars) and Nicolas Colombres [...]
Paul Nelson Band @ Cadillac Lounge, Toronto April 6, 2018 Paul Nelson has been performing for a lot of years, playing with Johnny Winter, Eric Clapton and Slash to name three. He even earned himself Grammy nominations and an award for producing [...]
Maker Dead Ends & Avenues Kidda Records Maker is a four piece band based in Kent, England. Alessandro Marinelli (vocals), Andrew Donaldson (guitar), his brother Gavin Donaldson (drums), and John Astin (bass) make up the band, and [...]
Lucy Wise Winter Sun Independent If Joni Mitchell and Sandy Denny had a child together, she might sound a lot like Lucy Wise. Wise is an Australian singer/songwriter in the folk tradition and Winter Sun is her solo debut album. She has issued [...]
A NOSTALGIC TOUR 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING A CONVERSATION WITH IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL Jethro Tull debuted as a band on, Feb. 2, 1968 at the Marquee Club in London, England. The central figure of the band was, and still is, Ian Anderson. They [...]
BLVCK LOVE A CONVERSATION WITH STRVNGERS Strvngers is a band, two members actually, from a small town in Alberta. The two members of the band, Maria Joaquin (vocals) and KC (music) came together in 2015 and since then have already released two [...]
Echo Collective Echo Collective Plays Amnesiac 7K! Music Echo Collective is a band based in Brussels, Belgium, formed by classically trained musicians Neil Leiter (viola) and Margaret Hermant (violin/harp). Recently they paired up with Erasure [...]
SUPPORTING SOBRIETY IN MUSIC A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS TAIT OF ELECTRIC SIX When one has a substance abuse issue, keeping clean and sober is difficult in the best of situations (support, home, and stability are just three components) but for a [...]
