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 [...]
King Krimsen Official Bootleg: Live In Chicago, June 28th, 2017 Discipline Global Music It all began in 1967 when Robert Fripp met up and joined The Giles Brothers (Michael and Peter) and they formed a trio. By 1968, the band had expanded to a [...]
Little Steven And The Disciples Of Soul @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto October 9, 2017 Little Steven and the latest incarnation of his Disciples of Soul hit Toronto on a warm Thanksgiving evening. Little Steven even joked about scheduling [...]
Dhani Harrison In///Parallel Hot Records Ltd It cannot be easy being the offspring of a Beatle in the music world. Stella McCartney has done extremely well in fashion, and Mary McCartney has carved out her own niche in photography, but when it [...]
The Northern Pikes Big Blue Sky (Super Sized) Universal Music Canada Although I love The Northern Pikes, I have not pulled out my copy of Big Blue Sky in a few years, so when I approached this 30th (30th!) Anniversary Super Sized version of the [...]
WHEN THE LIGHT IS RIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH JASON CROSBY Jason Crosby has been playing music for almost his entire life. He started with the violin at age two, and from there he learned several more instruments. A child prodigy? I would say so, [...]
BIG, BLUE AND MAYBE SOMETHING NEW A CONVERSATION WITH JAY SEMKO OF THE NORTHERN PIKES It must be my old age, because I have a hard time believing that The Northern Pikes’ classic album, Big Blue Sky, is 30 years old. But it is. And to celebrate, [...]
DANIEL K. LONGMAN – THE BEATLES’ LANDMARKS IN LIVERPOOL Amberley Publishing – October 1, 2017 ISBN-10: 1445652331 ISBN-13: 978-1445652337 Book Review By Aaron Badgley A very short but very interesting and crucial book to add to [...]
Chris Rea Road Songs For Lovers BMG The return of Chris Rea, not that he disappeared or that it has been that long between records, but Road Songs For Lovers feels like a return. Not a comeback, just the return of a good friend. It is hard to [...]
Jason Crosby Cryptologic Blue Rose Music You may not know the name, but you do know his work. Jason Crosby is an in demand session artist who has played with more artists than he can remember. To name a few, he has worked with Blind Boys of [...]
Blancmange Unfurnished Rooms Blanc Check Records Blancmange is Neil Arthur, or Neil Arthur is Blancmange. Since Stephen Luscombe left the band (the other original member) due to health reasons, Arthur has carried the torch and continued on under [...]
Cindy Doire Panorama Arté Boréal Panorama is Cindy Doire’s fourth solo album. Doire is one half of Scarlett Jane, a fantastic folk duo who have issued two multi nominated folk albums. Panorama is Doire’s third album recorded in French. Over the [...]
The Darts Me.Ow. Dirty Water Records The Darts return with their debut solo album, Me.Ow. They have previously released two ten inch EPs and those two EPs were issued as an album (The Darts, 2017). But Me.Ow. is their first full length album [...]
Keith Emerson Emerson Plays Emerson Emersongs/Cherry Red The music world lost Keith Emerson on March 11, 2016. What a huge loss it was. Many know him through his work with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, though he was also in The Nice, and Emerson, [...]
