KELLY SLOAN INSIDES OUT VICTORY POOL RECORDS Kelly Sloan is back with her latest release, Insides Out. The Toronto-based singer/songwriter’s latest effort is an intensely personal affair, featuring Sloan on the piano for every track. Sloan is a [...]
BRUCE HORNSBY SPIRIT TRAIL (25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION) ZAPPO PRODUCTIONS/THIRTY TIGERS Bruce Hornsby has been making great music for a long time, and 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of his Spirit Trail album, which was initially released in 1998. [...]
PETER JOE HULMES – UNIVERSAL JUVENILE: IN SEARCH OF KIM MITCHELL INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY TONY STUART In Peter Hulmes’ own words, Universal Juvenile “is a tale of one man’s love of another man’s music and how that passion resulted in a [...]
HOWARD JONES – WE’RE IN THIS TOGETHER THIS DAY IN MUSIC BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY TONY STUART Howard Jones is celebrating his 40th year as a recording artist, and in typical Howard Jones fashion, he wanted his fans and people he has known [...]
HOWARD JONES CELEBRATE IT TOGETHER – THE VERY BEST OF HOWARD JONES 1983-2023 CHERRY RED RECORDS Forty years in the music business is cause for celebration, and Howard Jones is doing just that with the release of Celebrate It Together. This [...]
HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS SPORTS (40th ANNIVERSARY REISSUE) CAPITOL/UME As hard as it is to believe now, at one time Huey Lewis & The News struggled to achieve chart success. Despite being a tight, hard-working band, mainstream success [...]
ALICE COOPER ROAD earMUSIC Alice Cooper is a master of blending hard-driving songs with a sense of theatricality, and his newest album, Road, continues that tradition. The 13 tracks on the album were produced by Bob Ezrin, who has been a [...]
BEBEL GILBERTO JOÃO [PIAS] Bebel Gilberto grew up surrounded by music. Her father was João Gilberto, one of the pioneers of Brazilian bossa nova, and her mother was famed Latin jazz singer Miúcha. This kind of pedigree can be both a blessing and [...]
CELEBRATING THE 40 YEAR OLD ‘NEW SONG’ A CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD JONES Howard Jones is back on tour, celebrating 40 years since the release of his first single, “New Song”, back in September of 1993. We had the opportunity to [...]
Jackie Wilson Higher and Higher Org Music Higher and Higher was an iconic album released by Jackie Wilson, also known as “Mr. Excitement”, in 1967. It was originally on the Brunswick Records label, and has been reissued by Org Music, using the [...]
Deer Tick Emotional Contracts ATO Records Deer Tick, the Providence, RI quartet, has released its first album since 2017. Emotional Contracts showcases a band at the peak of their songwriting and performing abilities, which isn’t surprising [...]
Cowboy Junkies Such Ferocious Beauty Latent Recordings The Cowboy Junkies are back with their first release of new material in five years, the much-anticipated Such Ferocious Beauty. Principal songwriter Michael Timmins had time to reflect and [...]
MIKE CORCIONE – TALES FROM THE GUTTER: AND OTHER ROCK AND ROLL SHENANIGANS INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW BY TONY STUART Mike Corcione takes us back to a bygone era in Tales From The Gutter. Corcione was heavily invested in the music scene in the [...]
Bruce Cockburn O Sun O Moon True North Records There is truth in the statement that some things get better with age. Case in point, Bruce Cockburn’s new album O Sun O Moon serves up a heaping helping of musical goodness. Recorded in Nashville, [...]
The Donnas Early Singles 1995-1999 Real Gone Music The Donnas burst onto the punk scene like a force of nature in the late 1990s. Far from being an overnight success, this quartet (vocalist Brett Anderson, guitarist Allison Robertson, bassist [...]
Louise Burns Element Independent Vancouver’s Louise Burns has released her fifth solo album, Element, which she describes as a “sonic daydream” that was written to help her deal with the incredible amount of change that has occurred over the [...]
The Natural Lines The Natural Lines Bella Union Sooner or later, most of us decide to take stock of our lives and make decisions that allow us to move forward. Matt Pond (formerly of band Matt Pond PA) has done exactly that, and the result is [...]
Leon Russell Signature Songs Dark Horse Records Leon Russell was one of the most accomplished and versatile musicians in the rock ’n’ roll era. The list of artists he collaborated with is a who’s who of the music world, especially during his [...]
The Strokes The Singles – Volume 01 Sony Music Canada Several terms have been used to describe the sound of The Strokes, including ‘indie rock’, ‘garage rock revival’, and ‘post-punk revival’. Whichever term you choose, the inescapable [...]
Bryan James Duffy The Red Brick Road Independent Guitarist, singer, and songwriter Bryan James Duffy has been a working musician since the age of 17, and his musical journey has taken him from North Bay, ON to Toronto, and finally to Las Vegas, [...]
