John Cale: 50th Anniversary Of The Velvet Underground And Nico @ Brooklyn Academy Of Music, New York Novmber 17, 2017 Although it was November 17, 2017, when I walked into the Brooklyn Academy Theatre, with ambient music humming, cool [...]
GARFIELD’S LONG-AWAITED RETURN A CONVERSATION WITH GARFIELD FRENCH When I was a kid, maybe ten, I was visiting my brother in Montreal. We were in a record store on St. Catherine’s St., and I heard this remarkable song. It just shook me to [...]
CANADA’S TRIPLE THREAT A CONVERSATION WITH ALAN DOYLE It is hard to know where to start when writing an article about Alan Doyle. Everything this man touches seems to turn to gold. He helped form Great Big Sea in 1993, who made their debut [...]
Wanda Jackson and Scott B. Bomar – Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl’s Journey To The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame BMG Publishing – November 14, 2017 ISBN – 978-1-947-0260-18 Book Review By Aaron Badgley This book [...]
YOU KNOW THE NAME, BUT NOT THE FACE A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS JAGGER While turning 70 is a milestone in anyone’s life, for a musician/artist like Chris Jagger, it marks a pretty good time to look back on your career. With a career spanning 45 [...]
THE COSMIC PANORAMA A CONVERSATION WITH CINDY DOIRE Cindy Doire’has been surprising and pleasing her fans since her debut album, La Vie en Bleu (Life In Blue), was released ten years ago. That album earned a loyal fan base, excellent [...]
Tears For Fears Rule The World: The Greatest Hits Virgin/Universal With Halloween having come and gone, we come to be surrounded by the same tell-tale signs of the holiday season quickly approaching. The store displays, the Christmas music being [...]
Skydiggers @ The Dakota Tavern, Toronto November 3, 2017 As you may know, Skydiggers have returned with a brand new album, Warmth of The Sun, their first since last year’s tribute to Gene Clark, Here Without You – The Songs of Gene [...]
Strawbs The Ferryman’s Curse Witchwood/Cherry Red Records The Ferryman’s Curse is the first studio album by The Strawbs since 2014’s Prognostic. For the past three years, fans have been waiting for a new studio album, and not only has the [...]
Ora Cogan Crickets Hand Drawn Dracula Crickets is Ora Cogan’s fifth album, and it is her best. Last year she released the remarkable Shadowland, and to me it was somewhat doubtful she would be able to top such a personal and beautiful album. The [...]
Kansas Leftoverture Live And Beyond Inside Out Music A good live album is a difficult thing to produce. As for great live albums, there are but a handful. The Concert For Bangla Desh, The Who Live At Leeds, Viva Roxy Music are examples of great [...]
Belle Miners Powerful Owl MGM Powerful Owl is the debut album from the Australia-based Belle Miners, a band comprised of two Canadians (Felicia Harding and Martina Avros) and one Australian (Jamie Jackett). Since starting out three years ago, [...]
Tori Amos @ Massey Hall, Toronto October 30, 2017 Tori Amos brought her Native Invader tour to Toronto as part of this rather extensive tour. She had played the night before in Cleveland, and she was scheduled for the next night in Ann Arbor [...]
THE BEATLES RECORDING REFERENCE MANUAL A CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR JERRY HAMMACK Jerry Hammack is an engineer, producer, and musician. He is also an author of note. His most recent book, The Beatles Recording Reference Manual: Volume 1: My Bonnie [...]
YOU’RE NOT ALONE A CONVERSATION WITH AARON ROCHE You may not know the name, Aaron Roche, but there is a good chance you have heard him play on a record, seen him perform live with an artist, or heard his production work. When you look at [...]
THE WARMTH OF THE SUN AND A LITTLE COMPASSION A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MAIZE OF THE SKYDIGGERS Skydiggers have been around since the 1980s. It may be hard to believe, but it is true, and in fact, 2017 marks their 30th anniversary. To mark this [...]
Skydiggers Warmth Of The Sun Latent Recordings Skydiggers are back with album 14 (my count, not including live recordings and compilations) and as always this is cause for celebration. The pure joy of Skydiggers is one never knows exactly what [...]
Nick Lowe Party Of One Yep Roc Records Party of One is a classic Nick Lowe album that has been out of print for a number of years. The fine folks at Yep Roc are correcting that situation and have reissued the album (along with five other Nick [...]
Chris Jagger All The Best BMG/Absolute Chris Jagger is Mick Jagger’s younger brother, and like Paul McCartney’s younger brother, who used to go by Mike McGear, it cannot be easy trying to get out from under that shadow. Even with the support of [...]
BORN TO SING AND TRAVEL A CONVERSATION WITH WANDA JACKSON: THE QUEEN OF ROCKABILLY “Hello, this is Wanda Jackson, “ in that voice, the voice of Wanda Jackson coming through the telephone lines. I was talking with The Wanda Jackson! The Queen of [...]
Hologram Teen Between The Funk And The Fear Polytechnic Youth Hologram Teen is Morgane Lhote, known mainly for her work with Stereolab from 1995 to 2001 (she played keyboards). She left the band to join The Projects, and in 2005 joined Garden. [...]
Alan Doyle A Week At The Warehouse Skinner’s Hill Music Ltd./Universal Music This is solo album number three from Alan Doyle, of Great Big Sea fame. The band called it a day in 2015 (or retired they called it) and Doyle has been very busy [...]
John Wetton Akustika: Live In Amerika/Akustika II: Return To Amerika Primary Purpose/Cherry Red Records John Wetton was a talented artist. His extensive musical resume is breathtaking. If he had just formed the incredible band UK, he would [...]
Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile Lotta Sea Lice Matador Records A collaboration that looks good on paper, that sounds even better on record,Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett have released some of the most intelligent, influential and stunning [...]
