Jean-Michel Jarre Oxygène 3 Sony Music Canada Almost forty years to the day of the original album, Oxygène, comes Oxygène 3. For those familiar with this electronic wizard’s music, no explanation is necessary. For those who are only now [...]
Various Artists The Edge of Seventeen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Sony Music Canada Saturday Night Fever may have started it, but John Hughes perfected the various artists’ soundtrack albums. For those of us old enough, who can forget [...]
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band (Reissue) Secretly Canadian Yoko Ono’s first solo album, which was recorded during the recording of John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. It was originally released on the same day as John’s album. Once again, Secretly Canadian [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions (Reissue) Secretly Canadian The second release in the Secretly Canadian/Chimera Music “Yoko Ono Reissue Project.” The front cover tells the story of the album, Yoko Ono in a [...]
John Lennon & Yoko Ono Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins (Reissue) Secretly Canadian Secretly Canadian and Sean Lennon’s Chimera music are endeavoring on a reissue campaign (called the Yoko Ono Reissue Project) of Yoko Ono albums, which [...]
SSHH Issues Independent It is an intriguing idea, an album of cover versions played with members of the original band. That is the idea behind SSHH’s debut album. SSHH is comprised of Australian singer/artist Sshh Liguz and guitarist/drummer [...]
Bobby Bazini Summer Is Gone Universal Music Canada Quebec’s Bobby Bazini has been making a name for himself in Canada over the past few years, and on this album, his third, he’s set to take on the world. The good news is that this album is [...]
Mike Watt Ring Spiel Tour ’95 Sony Music Canada Ring Spiel Tour 95 is a live recording of a supergroup of sorts, a grunge supergroup to be more specific. I don’t like using the grunge label, but this recording comes from 1995, and the [...]
Mono Requiem For Hell Temporary Residence For its ninth release, Mono reconnected with an old friend and collaborator, Steve Albini. The result? An uneasy listening experience; uneasy as the music is varied and different. Militaristic drumming [...]
Mick Thomas These Are The Songs: A Mick Thomas Retrospective Liberation Music When I attended University of Ottawa, I had a radio show, every Saturday night, midnight to six, on the University station. If you tuned in, you were guaranteed a [...]
Frank Lord – Damone Ramone: A Rock And Roll Betrayal CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform – September 9, 2016 ISBN – 978-1-523945399 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Frank Lord has written a book about The Ramones. However, [...]
Anthony Hogan – From A Storm To A Hurricane: Rory Storm And The Hurricanes Amberley Publishing – June 15, 2016 ISBN – 978-1-445-6563-28 Book Review By Aaron Badgley Anthony Hogan is an exceptional writer, who has found many [...]
