FIVE YEARS OF GROWTH AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS A CONVERSATION WITH GARY LIGHTBODY OF SNOW PATROL When Snow Patrol front man Gary Lightbody sat down in 2013 and began penning a new song, centred around the theme of “life on Earth,” he couldn’t possibly [...]
BITTERN LAKE A CONVERSATION WITH SURVIVORMAN & MUSICIAN LES STROUD “You aren’t going to protect what you don’t love. You aren’t going to love what you don’t know. And you aren’t going to know what you don’t experience.” Les Stroud tells me. [...]
BUYER BEWARE…STEVIE NICKS A CONVERSATION WITH THE SHANTICS Who would’ve thought that phone calls across the pond were still a challenge to be faced in 2018? After a few failed attempts, I get a hold of The Shantics. The band – made [...]
Thom Fekete Grow Joyful Noise Recordings Faced with his own encroaching and premature mortality, Thom Fekete never stopped writing music. His new album, Grow — released posthumously through Joyful Noise Recordings — is both a [...]
Wussy What Heaven Is Like Damnably If you didn’t think that a concept album based on the TV show Fargo was something you were missing from your life, you’re in good company. But with their seventh studio album, What Heaven Is Like, Ohio rock [...]
The Wooden Sky 7th Annual Toronto Holiday Show @ 918 Bathurst, Toronto December 14, 2016 Hundreds packed 918 Bathurst tonight for the first of two nights of The Wooden Sky’s 7th annual Holiday Revue. The show, which was held in benefit of [...]
STRIPPED AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER MURPHY Scarfing down his breakfast, Peter Murphy is settling in for a string of interviews. The 59-year-old singer has just arrived in San Francisco ahead of his show at The Chapel, having just kicked off the [...]
LET’S BE READY AN INTERVIEW WITH GAVIN GARDINER OF THE WOODEN SKY When Gavin Gardiner and his bandmates in The Wooden Sky gathered a group of friends in a cozy church for a small holiday show seven years ago, it never crossed the [...]
Jacuzzi Boys Ping Pong Mag Mag If their previous album was an experiment in sound, then Ping Pong, the latest release from Miami rockers Jacuzzi Boys, is the realization of it. Produced by the band and released on their brand new label, Mag Mag, [...]
Monster Rally Mystery Cove Gold Robot Records Cinematic and picture-esque are not usually the first words that come to mind when listening to music, but that seems the most fitting way to describe Mystery Cove, the fourth album from Monster [...]
