Black Label Society Grimmest Hits eOne Music Black Label Society is kicking 2018 off with a bang with the release of Grimmest Hits, their first album since 2014’s critically acclaimed Catacombs of the Black Vatican. Since then, lead guitarist [...]
TRUMP, BORROWED TIME, AND AMERIKKKANT A CONVERSATION WITH MINISTRY’S AL JOURGENSEN November 8, 2016. The world stood still in a state of shock as the news stormed the floodgates like a dam that simply could not hold any more: Donald Trump had [...]
I’M NOT WORRIED IF PEOPLE DON’T LIKE MY BAND A CONVERSATION WITH DED VOCALIST JOE COTELA Following the July 2017 release of their debut album Mis•an•thrope, Ded has been steadily growing into an essential band for the modern metal scene. Gearing [...]
READY TO FUCK SHIT UP A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN SALMON AND WAYNE MICHEL OF HOGAN’S GOAT Every now and then, a band stumbles across something raw and incredibly unique; something that has the potential to steer the course of rock ’n’ roll in a new [...]
SLEEP TIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH SKYE “SEVER” SWEETNAM OF SUMO CYCO In what has been an unprecedented year for an unsigned band, Sumo Cyco is rewriting the possibilities for independent artists worldwide. Having released their second [...]
N.E.R.D No_One Ever Really Dies Sony Music It’s been seven years but N.E.R.D is back at last with their first album release since 2010’s Nothing. Since the band’s hiatus, the alternative pop band consisting of Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, and [...]
FOR CHUCK A DISCUSSION WITH CHRIS KNIKER OF PRIMITIVE RACE Chris Kniker will be the first to tell you that he is no rock-star. Rather, he is a man with a lifelong passion for music that has led to numerous opportunities ranging from journalism [...]
Wild Evel & The Trashbones Digging My Grave Dirty Water Records To the mainstream public, punk rock was a style of music birthed in 1976 by The Sex Pistols after a seemingly outrageous live television interview. To those who were actually [...]
A CHANGE IS GONNA COME A CONVERSATION WITH SAM KISZKA OF GRETA VAN FLEET As the face of the resurgence of classic blues-based rock, Greta Van Fleet has come to be that rare up-and-coming band that challenges expectations even as they’re being [...]
The Rolling Stones On Air Polydor Few artists have had such a profound and rich impact on pop culture, the music industry, and the world as The Rolling Stones. Even as the band enters into the latter half of its fifty years together, they stand [...]
AARON TANNER – FACE TO FACE: 25 YEARS OF SOCAL PUNK, THE VISUAL HISTORY Melodic Virtue – December 1, 2017 ISBN-13: 978-0692786819 Book Review By Gerrod Harris Face To Face and their SoCal Punk Legacy. Having released their [...]
Teenage Head Fun Comes Fast Warner Music For a punk growing up in Canada in the 1970’s and 80’s, Teenage Head was as essential to the genre as were The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, and The Stooges. The band captured Canadian punk rock and [...]
Here Lies Man Animal Noises RidingEasy Records What if Black Sabbath played Afrobeat?— a question and curiosity that we never thought we’d have but that one was still nonetheless perfectly satisfied in Here Lies Man’s work and latest EP, Animal [...]
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS RETURN WITH “MEADOW” & NEW VOCALIST JEFF GUTT To say the least, the past few years have been nothing short of both tumultuous and tragic for Stone Temple Pilots. After reforming in 2010 with original vocalist Scott [...]
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Soul Of A Woman Daptone Records After her passing on November 18th, 2016 following a fierce battle with pancreatic cancer, the album that Sharon Jones’ had been working on was shelved. Now, one day shy of the [...]
REMEMBERING CHUCK MOSLEY – A SPILL MAGAZINE TRIBUTE (December 26, 1959 – November 9, 2017) In a statement from his family, it was announced that alternative rock pioneer Chuck Mosley had passed away on November 9th at the age of [...]
ALAN CROSS – AN INTROSPECTION OF TORONTO MUSIC: 1970s – 2000s As a part of Myseum’s Music From People City series, Toronto based broadcaster and music critic Alan Cross hosted a lecture on the evolution of Toronto’s music scene at The [...]
ROB BOWMAN SHINES A LIGHT ON MASSEY HALL Toronto’s Massey Hall was recently spotlighted as a part of Myseum’s Music From People City series. A truly unique experience for those who visited the iconic concert hall on the morning and afternoon of [...]
ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS: 25 YEARS OF RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE “Fuck You, I Won’t Do What You Tell Me” – a common sentiment heard by those too conservative, right winged, or old simply from yet another generation of angsty and [...]
Greta Van Fleet From The Fires Lava Records Having released their first studio EP, Black Smoke Rising, in April of this year, Greta Van Fleet are very well on their way to becoming one of North America’s biggest up-and-coming rock bands. The [...]
Primitive Race Soul Pretender Metropolis Records Following the shocking passing of former Faith No More, Bad Brains, and VUA vocalist, Chuck Mosley on November 9th, Primitive Race’s sophomore album, Soul Pretender, is as triumphant as it is [...]
Guns N’ Roses @ The Air Canada Centre, Toronto October 29, 2017 Prior to the release of their 1987 debut record, Appetite For Destruction, Guns N’ Roses had embodied the quintessential mantra of sex, drugs, and rock & roll making them [...]
THE FUNK IS BACK A CONVERSATION WITH JAMES ‘DIAMOND’ WILLIAMS OF THE OHIO PLAYERS After missing two of my calls, I was beginning to think that my chat with the drummer from The Ohio Players, James ‘Diamond’ Williams, would have to be [...]
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue w/ Vintage Trouble @ The Danforth Music Hall, Toronto October 24, 2017 2017 has proved to be quite the year for Trombone Shorty and his backing band, Orleans Avenue. Throughout the first half of the year, the [...]
