Keane Cause And Effect Island Records Keane comes at us with no surprises here, and remain keyboard heavy, which is good news for fans. On Cause and Effect, their first full-length album since 2012’s Strangeland, the band still has its [...]
M83 DSVII Mute Records M83 brings us its newest and much-anticipated release, the instrumental DSVII (Digital Shades, Vol. 2). Its follow-up to 2007’s Digital Shades, Vol. 1 is decidedly richer and fuller in sound and substance, giving evidence [...]
Rheostatics Here Come the Wolves Six Shooter Records The new Rheostatics album, Here Come the Wolves, their first new album since 2004’s 2067, is a joyful and pleasant surprise. Their new offering from Six Shooter Records is a 53-minute affair [...]
Patrick Krief Dovetale Indica Montreal’s Patrick Krief, known simply as Krief, continues to build upon his impressive solo career. After over ten years of performing, writing, and composing music as lead guitarist and backup singer as an [...]
The Northern Pikes Forest Of Love Universal Music Saskatoon’s The Northern Pikes’ have released their ninth full-length studio album, Forest Of Love. It’s their first since 2003’s It’s A Good Life, and it’s a release that whets the whistle and [...]
THE NORTHERN PIKES @ BLUE FROG STUDIOS, WHITE ROCK (BC) JUNE 6, 2019 It was a very special evening with The Northern Pikes, playing their first gig with new material since 2003. 16 years have gone by and it seems like a day since their last [...]
Lowest Of The Low Agitpop Warner Music Lowest Of The Low introduce their sixth album, Agitpop, their first with Warner Music Canada since signing with Warner in 2018. 1991’s immeasurable, independently produced and released, Shakespeare My Butt… [...]
THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS WITH LOWEST OF THE LOW AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS: PART TWO An anomaly, that’s what the Toronto-based band Lowest Of The Low is. They conducted their business in a fiercely independent manner running for the [...]
THE HIGHS AND THE LOWS WITH LOWEST OF THE LOW AN IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH RON HAWKINS: PART ONE An anomaly, that’s what Toronto-based band Lowest Of The Low is. They conducted their business in a fiercely independent manner for the first 27 [...]
30 YEARS AND STILL VERY MUCH IN EFFECT A CONVERSATION WITH MAESTRO FRESH WES 30 years since the release of the ground-breaking, nearly double-platinum album Symphony In Effect, Maestro Fresh-Wes, invariably known as the first big name in [...]
MURRAY A. LIGHTBURN w/ JENNY BANAI & SAM LYNCH @ THE FOX CABARET, VANCOUVER MARCH 7, 2019 Thursday night, Vancouver’s intimate concert venue, Fox Cabaret, which is adoringly known locally for the fact that up until a few years ago it was an [...]
STARS ON GUITARS: 60 YEARS OF SURF ROCK WITH THE VENTURES A CONVERSATION WITH DON & STACI WILSON It’s hard to believe that 2019 is the 60th anniversary of the debut of the best-selling instrumental rock band of all-time, The Ventures, whose [...]
Memphis Leave With Me Independent Memphis, the duo consisting of long-time friends Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont, give us their fourth album, Leave With Me. Dumont and Campbell have been friends for 25 years. Dumont was a member of [...]
Wyatt Blair Inspirational Strawberries Lolipop Records Los Angeles-based Wyatt Blair’s second release of 2018 is an ear-pleasing, up-tempo, poppy offering of mostly ‘60s-inspired delights. Blair’s Inspirational Strawberries is ultimately a [...]
Tav Falco Cabaret Of Daggers ORG Music The seventy-three-year-old Tav Falco, who is best known for Tav Falco’s Panther Burns (a Memphis rock ’n’ roll band formed in the late ‘70s), graciously gives us his most recent solo album, Cabaret of [...]
