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 [...]
INTRDCING ANMLPLNET A CONVERSATION WITH MICKEY VERSHBOW & LEAH WELLBAUM OF ANMLPLNET Meet ANMLPLNET (pronounced ‘animal planet’, “we left out the vowels to avoid copyright issues” the band jokes), a new band comprised of two very talented [...]
The Tillers The Tillers Sofaburn It has been about five years since the Tillers released an album. Their last album, 2013’s Hand On The Plow, was well received and had the band poised for an even bigger audience. Since 2008, The Tillers have [...]
…And We All Die Modern Day Privateers (Remixes) + Outtakes Independent …And We All Die is a collective of musicians organized by Raymond Burton Estes. He formed …And We All Die in 2000, and by my count they have issued a number [...]
Trevor Burnett 4 Yotam Independent Trevor Burnett is an artist born and raised in Montreal. However, he has spent the last few years travelling the world. While travelling, it would seem that Burnett was working on his writing and music. 4 Yotam [...]
BOTANICAL GARDENS A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN It has been eight years since the last Don McLean album. On March 16, 2018 he released his 19th studio album, Botanical Gardens. Perhaps it is not the album fans or one would expect from Don [...]
The Oak Ridge Boys 17th Avenue Revival Lightning Rod Records The Oak Ridge Boys have been around for a very long time, this current lineup has been together since the mid 1970s. Interestingly they may not have the commercial success they once [...]
Don McLean Botanical Gardens BMG One never knows what Don McLean will do next or when, for that matter. Botanical Gardens is his first studio album since 2009’s Addicted To Black. So it has been a while for McLean but it has been well worth the [...]
The Bonnevilles Dirty Photographs Alive Natural Sounds Records Dirty Photographs is the first album from the Belfast based The Bonnevilles since 2016’s Arrow Pierce My Heart. It is their fifth album overall, and one can see that since their [...]
The Orange Kyte The Orange Kyte Says Yes! Little Cloud Records This is a very unique album and The Orange Kyte have a very unique sound. The band consists of Stevie Moonboots [vox, bass, guitars] and Dave Mulvaney [drums, percussion], and Mat [...]
Fungus Hill Cosmic Construction On Proxima B Independent Buckle your seatbelts, this is not your usual rock album. Fungus Hill have brought us something different, yet something old. Cosmic Construction On Proxima B is a concept album, a science [...]
Erasure World Beyond Mute Records In 2017, Erasure released their 17th studio album, World Be Gone. It was a big success, both critically and commercially in their native U.K. (it made the Top Ten). Vince Clarke, the one half of Erasure who is [...]
Stonerpop Physical Business Stonerpop Records Stonerpop is a duo that sounds like they should be from somewhere in Europe, but in fact they are based in Louisiana. The group is comprised of Jimmie Maneuva (keyboards, programming and backing [...]
HAPPY TO SING THE BLUES A CONVERSATION WITH MYLES GOODWYN Where does one even start when writing about Myles Goodwyn? He has been a huge presence in the music scene since the early 1970’s, writing, producing and performing some of the most [...]
Kutch Notionside Independent Kutch is made up of Colin Kutchyera and La+Ch (Coleman Hell’s Collective) and Notionside is their debut album under the name Kutch. Both artists are no strangers to the music world but this collaboration was meant [...]
Laurie Anderson And Kronos Quartet Landfall Nonesuch Records This is a pairing that is long overdue, as is the album. The origins of Landfall are as interesting as the album itself. For many years Kronos Quartet were looking to work with [...]
