Van Morrison Versatile Legacy Recordings/Sony Music Versatile is Van Morrison’s 38th studio album, and his second album this year. In September Roll With The Punches was released, and now in December Morrison has yet another release. Who would [...]
SPC ECO Calm Tapete Records Shoegazers rejoice; SPC ECO is back at it again. It’s been ten years since the release of their debut album, 3D, and the duo consisting of Rose Berlin (vocals and lyrics) and Dean Garcia (multiple instruments and [...]
Yes Topographic Drama – Live Across America Rhino Records Formed in 1968, Yes is a band that interestingly has no original members left in the band. For Topographic Drama – Live Across America, guitarist Steve Howe (who joined the [...]
DBA (Downes Braide Association) Skyscraper Souls X2X Records/Cherry Red Downes Braide Association ( DBA) are here to teleport you right back to the ’80s with their new album, Skyscraper Souls. As a collaboration between Geoff Downes (The [...]
Great Lake Swimmers They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore Nettwerk Great Lake Swimmers return after 2016’s EP Swimming Away, with the ever appropriately titled EP, They Don’t Make Them Like That Anymore. This one is a four track Christmas [...]
Sufjan Stevens The Greatest Gift: Mixtape Asthmatic Kitty Don’t get it twisted, Sufjan Stevens’ The Greatest Gift: Mixtape is not a Christmas album, nor is it is it something thrown together in time for the Christmas market. This is a well-mixed [...]
Charlotte Gainsbourg Rest Because Music/Warner Music Known mainly as an actress, Charlotte Gainsbourg began her singing career at the age of 12, when she sang with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, on his 1983 single “Lemon Incest”. Since then she [...]
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 [...]
