Electric Bird Noise derek roddy 8-10-22 Silber Records/Broken Sound Tapes Ambient and metal clash on the latest release from Electric Bird Noise. The three-song, collaborative EP sees guitarist and songwriter Brian McKenzie join forces with [...]
Metallica 72 Seasons Blackened Recordings After polarising their audience with what I considered to be the very strong, albeit unnecessarily excessive album, Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, Metallica has returned with its first studio album since [...]
JEFF GOMEZ – THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE: GENERATION X, AIDS, AND THE MAKING OF A CLASSIC NINETIES RECORD McFARLAND BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Released in 1993 to benefit AIDS relief, No Alternative was a compilation album that [...]
Vicious Beast I Am Drugs Independent Over the last year or so, Monster Truck’s lead vocalist and bassist Jon Harvey has been teasing his latest project through social media. Vicious Beast came to life through a handful of scorching live dates [...]
The Who The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley Universal Music Six decades into their career, The Who continues to experiment with its performances, justifying its worth as one of the greatest bands of its era. Their 2019 tour saw the British [...]
Filter The Amalgamut (20th Anniversary Edition) Craft Recordings Just over 20 years ago, Richard Patrick released Filter’s third album, The Amalgamut. The album was a triumph and marked the conclusion of a three-album era – which kicked off with [...]
Crown Lands Fearless Spinefarm Records Few Canadian bands, if any, have had a trajectory that Crown Lands have well deservingly enjoyed over the last decade. Following the release of the debut full-length album in 2020, the band pressed forward [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – AC/DC AT 50 THE QUARTO GROUP BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his latest book, Canadian author and music critic, Martin Popoff, has turned his focus onto one of his favourite bands of all time: AC/DC. The appropriately [...]
JULY TALK w/ CROWN LANDS @ MASSEY HALL, TORONTO MARCH 10, 2023 Two of Canada’s most promising bands to emerge in the last decade took one of Toronto’s most revered stages for a pair of back-to-back, sold out performances. Having just released [...]
Vilivant Running On Empty Independent Following a series of singles released over the course of 2022 (“Running On Empty” and “Drown”), Toronto’s Vilivant has returned with their debut full-length album, Running On Empty. Led by singer Julia [...]
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE TOP A CONVERSATION WITH SUZI MOON Having been performing since she was a teenager, Los Angeles-based punk rocker Suzi Moon has experienced a massive three years. With a pair of EP’s and a full-length album under her [...]
The South Side Movement The South Side Movement (50th Anniversary Edition) Real Gone Music The latest reissue to come from Real Gone Music is the debut album from the short-lived funk ensemble The South Side Movement. As the backing band for [...]
Steel Panther On The Prowl Steel Panther Inc. Few artists, if any, have paired audacious humor with the masterfully precise and technical musicianship of rock ‘n’ roll’s hair metal era of the ‘80s as Steel Panther has. Their sixth studio album, [...]
Various Artists Bottle Music For Broken People Bottles To The Ground Bottles To The Ground, the latest imprint to emerge from Fat Mike (NOFX) and Fat Wreck Chords has launched their first release, Bottle Music For Broken People. The compilation [...]
MARTIN POPOFF – PINK FLOYD AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON: 50 YEARS QUARTO BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS Canadian author Martin Popoff continues to examine the cultural significance of the classic rock era with his latest book, Pink Floyd [...]
ALTER BRIDGE w/ MAMMOTH WVH @ HISTORY, TORONTO FEBRUARY 11, 2023 Hot on the release of their seventh full-length album, Pawns & Kings, and following their trek throughout Europe, Alter Bridge are in the midst of their North American tour. [...]
The Rolling Stones GRRR Live! Mercury Studios Few artists, if any, have celebrated a 50-yr anniversary while remaining almost active for the entire period. 2012 and 2013 saw The Rolling Stones do exactly this, with the launch of Grrr!, a [...]
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE A CONVERSATION WITH STIX ZADINIA OF STEEL PANTHER With the release of Steel Panther’s sixth album fast approaching, it is a truly exciting time to be a fan of the greatest ‘80s rock outfit to blow up in the last decade. [...]
FANTASTIC NEGRITO GRANDFATHER COURAGE STOREFRONT RECORDS Fantastic Negrito made waves with his creative odyssey of a 2022 album, White Jesus Black Problems, an album which tackled the story of his mixed ancestry in the era of American slavery, [...]
July Talk Remember Never Before Six Shooter Records The polarity between lead vocalists Leah Fay Goldstein and Peter Dreimanis remains the core of July Talk’s appeal. Even with an expanded lineup, this remains true on their fourth album, [...]
Iggy Pop Every Loser Gold Tooth Music/Atlantic Records Like a fine wine, Iggy Pop continues to age into a truly one-of-a-kind vintage. Despite decades of hard living, the original street walking cheetah’s bottle of creativity remains seemingly [...]
Drop Top Alibi Anyways… Independent Following their 2017 debut, self-titled EP, and a string of singles released since then, Toronto hard rock outfit Drop Top Alibi has returned with Anyways…. The five-track EP sees the band trade in their [...]
Guns N’ Roses Use Your Illusion (Super Deluxe) UMe Appetite For Destruction remains one of the greatest debut records ever, something that forever established Guns N’ Roses among the greatest rock bands but has left a nearly impossible summit [...]
RASŤO KACHNIČ – ALTERNATOR: A BIASED GUIDE THROUGH THE WORLD OF ALTERNATIVE MUSIC VIDEOS (1990 – 1994) INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY GERROD HARRIS For his first book, Rasťo Kachnič has brought his music blog, Alternator, into reality. Alternator: A [...]
