THE BARR BROTHERS W/ GEORGIA HARMER @ THE PALACE THEATRE, CALGARY (AB) APRIL 2, 2026 As part of their Let it Hiss Tour to support their 2025 album Let it Hiss, The Barr Brothers amazed the audience at the Palace Theatre in Calgary on April 2. [...]
THIS WARRANTS A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK MUSICALLY A CONVERSATION WITH JAY MALINOWSKI Jay Malinowski of the JUNO award-winning musical duo Bedouin Soundclash is set to release a new solo album titled Under A Landslide Of Stars. Under the solo moniker [...]
GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS W/ CANYON LIGHTS @ GREY EAGLE RESORT AND CASINO, TSUUT’INA NATION, CALGARY (AB) MARCH 20, 2026 Currently, legendary rockers George Thorogood & The Destroyers have been embarking on their The Baddest Show [...]
JULY TALK w/ GAY NINETIES @ THE PALACE THEATRE, CALGARY (AB) MARCH 17, 2026 Canadian alternative rock icons July Talk have been touring across the country to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their highly adored and critically acclaimed [...]
LEANING INTO IT A CONVERSATION WITH RIK EMMETT Triumph guitarist and vocalist Rik Emmett is following up his debut poetry book, Reinvention: Poems, with Leaning Into It. Recently, I chatted with Emmett about his upcoming poetry book. “I write [...]
LAST DINOSAURS w/ TEN02 & LOVIET @ COMMONWEALTH BAR & STAGE, CALGARY (AB) FEBRUARY 17, 2026 Beloved Australian indie rockers Last Dinosaurs have embarked on a tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their second album, Wellness. [...]
THE TREWS w/ EDDY AND THE DIRTY BOYS @ THE PALACE THEATRE, CALGARY (AB) FEBRUARY 16, 2026 Canadian rock icons The Trews have been going on tour across Canada as part of The Bloody Light Tour to support their 2025 album The Bloody Light. They [...]
30 YEARS OF HEMI-VISION A CONVERSATION WITH GORDIE JOHNSON OF BIG SUGAR Big Sugar’s 1996 album Hemi-Vision is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The band has been playing shows across Canada to celebrate the occasion. The two-set performance sees [...]
BIG SUGAR @ THE PALACE THEATRE, CALGARY (AB) FEBRUARY 1, 2026 In honour of their 1996 album Hemi-Vision, celebrating its 30th anniversary, Big Sugar has been on tour, playing the album in its entirety for the first time ever. Their stop in [...]
MEN WITHOUT HATS w/ SOULS IN RHYTHM @ BELLA CONCERT HALL, CALGARY (AB) JANUARY 20, 2026 Men Without Hats did not disappoint at their January 20th show in Calgary at Bella Concert Hall. Frontman Ivan Doroschuk, guitarist Sho Murray, keyboardist [...]
FIGHT FOR LOVE PART 2 A CONVERSATION WITH NEIL OSBORNE OF 54•40 54•40, one of the most seminal Canadian alternative rock bands of the ‘80s and ‘90s, with songs like “I Go Blind,” “One Day In Your Life,” “Ocean Pearl,” and “She La” becoming [...]
YOU SHOULDN’T BE SETTLING AT ANY STEP OF THE WAY A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN-ANGUS MACDONALD OF THE TREWS For the past 20 years, The Trews have taken Canada by storm with smash hits like “Highway of Heroes,” “Not Ready to [...]
SLOAN BASED ON THE BEST SELLER YEP ROC RECORDS/MURDERECORDS Sloan, the iconic band consisting of Andrew Scott, Chris Murphy, Jay Ferguson, and Patrick Pentland, was a dominant force on Canadian radio and television in the 1990s and early 2000s. [...]
TO ME IT’S A LOVE ALBUM A CONVERSATION WITH WILL ANDERSON OF HOTLINE TNT For those keeping track of what is current in the shoegaze world, Hotline TNT is one name you definitely have come across. Known for their noisy and catchy mixture of power [...]
SEASON OF THE PEACH A CONVERSATION WITH JARED SWILLEY OF BLACK LIPS Garage punk rockers Black Lips have been hammering out loud, fuzzy, aggressively chaotic songs ever since their debut record, Black Lips! They were also part of the garage rock [...]
NEVER SURRENDER A CONVERSATION WITH GIL MOORE OF TRIUMPH Triumph, the legendary Canadian band known for rock anthems like “Lay It On The Line”, “Somebody’s Out There”, and “Hold On”, is set to be [...]
I ENDED UP LIVING A BIGGER LIFE THAN I’D EVER IMAGINED A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY KIM “I’m a dreamer more than anything else; my whole life has been kind of a dream,” says singer-songwriter Andy Kim. Known for hits like “Baby, I Love [...]
IVY TRACES OF YOU BAR/NONE RECORDS After Adam Schlesinger passed away in 2020, Andy Chase and Dominique Durand assumed that Ivy was in the rearview mirror. However, after working on recent reissues of their back catalogue, Chase and Durand [...]
WONDERING WHY HUGE, HUGE MOMENTS FROM THE PAST AREN’T ALWAYS CARRIED WITH YOU IN PERPETUITY A CONVERSATION WITH KEITH MURRAY OF WE ARE SCIENTISTS Since the 2000s, one band that you can count on for delivering good quality punky indie-rock dance [...]
DAVID BYRNE WHO IS THE SKY? MATADOR RECORDS David Byrne is best known as the frontman of the legendary band Talking Heads, who helped shape the landscape of music in the ‘80s. He is also a prolific solo artist and, with his unique artistic [...]
SUEDE ANTIDEPRESSANTS BMG Britpop legends Suede are back again with their newest record, Antidepressants. It is their first album since 2022’s Autofiction. Fans of the band will be delighted with Antidepressants. Antidepressants sees Suede [...]
WE DON’T WANT TO BE A HERITAGE ACT A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS MURPHY OF SLOAN Sloan was one of the defining Canadian bands of the ’90s and early 2000s. Their irresistible alt-rock power pop anthems, such “Coax Me,” “Money [...]
THE HIVES THE HIVES FOREVER FOREVER THE HIVES [PIAS] For three decades, The Hives have delivered high-octane garage rock anthems with a loud, hard-hitting sound, tenaciously-punky energy, and an electrifying cool swagger. Their newest album, The [...]
WE’VE STRETCHED MUSICALLY AND ARTISTICALLY A CONVERSATION WITH ADAM CZEISLER AND COLE PETERSON OF SWEET WATER The Seattle grunge scene gave us some of the most iconic bands of the ’90s, including Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, [...]
