Mac DeMarco Here Comes The Cowboy Mac’s Record Label Here Comes the Cowboy finds DeMarco fully engulfed in a mellow, acoustic-keyboard wallow. Now 29-years-old, he is coming across as a very mature artist who has found his groove. Tracks [...]
The Rolling Stones Honk Universal Music The Rolling Stones are no strangers to the “best of” compilation, having piled up a whopping 25 since Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), their first singles collection in 1966. Since then we have seen [...]
GET BACK THE BEATLES ROOFTOP CONCERT – 50 YEARS LATER With extreme pressure from both the press and the public, the Beatles decided to stop touring after its August 1966 show at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. “There was no enjoyment in it”, [...]
The Rolling Stones Voodoo Lounge Uncut Eagle Rock Entertainment After a slew of creative disasters in the mid to late ‘80s, The World’s Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll Band dove back to their roots for their 1994 comeback, Voodoo Lounge. The newly [...]
Van Morrison The Prophet Speaks Caroline International Since 1974’s Veedon Fleece, Van Morrison has struggled to put out a consistent body of artistic work. There were a few triumphs in the ‘80s with Inarticulate Speech of the Heart and Irish [...]
ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE In 1967 Van Morrison had himself a top-ten single with “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Today the song is his most well-known and can be heard daily on any classic rock [...]
Roy Buchanan Live At Town Hall 1974 Real Gone Music Roy Buchanan is one of those artists who seemed to just excel in front of a live audience. A true guitarists’ guitarist, he never had a strong desire to be a studio maverick. Buchanan just [...]
SONIC YOUTH DAYDREAM NATION: 30 YEARS LATER New York City in the late 1970s was the creative haven for any hipster looking to have a go at a real bohemian lifestyle. Punk rock was at its peak, having gained its roots in the city a decade [...]
Elvis Costello & the Imposters Look Now Concord Records Following the inspiring 2017 Imperial Bedroom tour, Elvis Costello along with his Imposters reach back to his 1982 classic for inspiration. Look Now, Costello’s first release since his [...]
Kurt Vile Bottle It In Matador Records Bottle It In, Kurt Vile’s first solo LP since his most successful record to date, b’lieve i’m goin down, brings a “newish” side to of his repertoire. Recorded over a span of three years, we see the [...]
ROY BUCHANAN’S TOP TEN TRACKS – REMEMBER ROY 30 YEARS LATER On August 14th 1988, Roy Buchanan hanged himself inside his prison cell in Fairfax County, Virginia, where he was being held after a domestic dispute. He was 48 years old. No one [...]
Bass Drum Of Death Just Business Red Music In 2011, a one-man-band from Oxford, Mississippi dropped its debut LP on Fat Possum Records. Over the next few years, Bass Drum of Death led by John Barrett released a slew of lo-fi goodness that looked [...]
Los Straitjackets w/ The Hoodlums @ This Ain’t Hollywood, Hamilton July 8, 2018 Veteran surf rockers, Los Straitjackets, close out the third and final show in Canada with the small, but lively, This Ain’t Hollywood in downtown Hamilton. [...]
The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Capitol Records The past decade has been a very good time to be a Beach Boys fan, beginning with their 50th anniversary tour in 2012, which [...]
Jimi Hendrix Both Sides Of The Sky Legacy Recordings In 1994, MCA records gathered up all of Hendrix’s blues-rock outtakes and compiled them on an album, titled simply Blues. 24 years later it still stands as one of the best, if not the best, [...]
The Doors Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 Eagle Vision For the first time since 1970, The Doors performance at the legendary Isle of Wight gets officially released; which begs us to ask the question, why now? It seems odd that a [...]
TOP 5 BREAK-UP ALBUMS OF ALL TIME A POST-VALENTINE FEATURE For single people, the month of February can be an unpleasant one. Having to listen to the dreaded countdown to Valentine’s Day is pure torture for the first two weeks of the month. So, [...]
FOREVER CHANGES – 50 YEARS LATER It’s fair to say that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was the album that defined the Summer of Love, and the whole spirit of pop music in 1967. It dripped of lush psychedelia, baroque pop and Indian [...]
Anthony DeCurtis – Lou Reed: A Life Little, Brown and Company October 5, 2017 Book Review By Ryan Sagadore Where does one begin when writing a biography about Lou Reed? How can you compact a life so grand into 500 pages? The legendary [...]
AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE: 25 YEARS LATER When Michael Stipe walked into Wuxtry Records he had no idea what he was getting into. The shy, young music freak was there to pick up some vinyl to add to his hip, underground collection, but in doing so [...]
David Bowie A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982) Parlophone David Bowie was to the 1970s what Elvis was to the ‘50s and the Beatles were to the ‘60s. He was the most dominant and experimental force in possibly the most musically diverse decade [...]
Partner In Search Of Lost Time You’ve Changed Records Josee Caron and Lucy Niles, the founders of Partner, met in Sackville, N.B. at Mount Allison University’s meal hall back in 2010. Caron and Niles are both gay, however not for each [...]
MY AIM IS TRUE 40th ANNIVERSARY THE STORY OF ELVIS COSTELLO’S ICONIC DEBUT Most musical historians can agree that 1977 was the year that Punk-Rock broke into the mainstream. Punk’s brash, no nonsense approach had revitalized rock music. The goal [...]
Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ The Sony Centre, Toronto July 20, 2017 When Elvis Costello & The Attractions first released Imperial Bedroom in 1982, it stood out. It wasn’t Thriller. It wasn’t synthpop. The album sounded nothing [...]
