CREATING EXPERIENCES A CONVERSATION WITH ED SOUSA, DIRECTOR OF CLASSIC BOWL The 1980s and bowling: two things that go together like fish and chips. In fact, rock ‘n’ roll and bowling have been married since rock ‘n’ roll was born. But Ed Sousa, [...]
THE PAST WE CAN’T REWIND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREA FERRO OF LACUNA COIL Lacuna Coil, the Italian gothic metal band have made waves and broken new ground during their illustrious duration that has spanned over 20 years. Hailing from [...]
TAKING A SONG THAT WE LOVE AND DRESSING IT UP IN A DIFFERENT OUTFIT A CONVERSATION WITH NICK ROSE OF DWAYNE GRETZKY It was 2012, when a group of friends who jammed together doing covers of popular songs managed to garner themselves a residency [...]
THE DARKEST PART OF THE NIGHT, THE SUN ALWAYS RISES A CONVERSATION WITH BRENT RADEMAKER OF GOSPELBEACH GospelbeacH has been around since 2014, when Brent Rademaker rounded up some like-minded friends to produce music that reflected the times, [...]
LET’S GET FRIENDSHIP RIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY MAIZE OF THE SKYDIGGERS “We are putting this out because we are proud of it and we achieved what we wanted to achieve in the making of the recording,” says Andy Maize about the new Skydiggers [...]
DRAGONS AND PSYCHEDELIC COUNTRY SOUL A CONVERSATION WITH GREG SOWDERS OF THE LONG RYDERS Psychedelic country soul are three words that can be mashed together only to describe the American country and legends of Paisley Underground, The Long [...]
THE NECESSITY OF THE CANADIAN SUPERGROUP A CONVERSATION WITH BONDS OF MARA VOCALIST BRIAN BYRNE Bonds Of Mara is the latest band on the verge of taking the Canadian rock scene by storm. Consisting of vocalist Brian Byrne (I Mother Earth), [...]
JEFF BUCKLEY’S GRACE: 25 YEARS LATER Looking back on Grace, it is easy to see why the album was not a hit upon its release. In a time when grunge was king – Nirvana, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam dominated the rock airwaves – Jeff Buckley’s moody [...]
TIMELESSLY IN THE AIR A CONVERSATION WITH ROBBIE ROBERTSON While no easy feat in itself, becoming a musical legend is that much more significant when your body of work continues to be influential to steering the course of popular and [...]
PRETTY BITCHIN’ A CONVERSATION WITH STEEL PANTHER BASSIST LEXXI FOXX Few bands if any within the last twenty years have better embodied the mantra, theatrics, and lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll better than Steel Panther. The [...]
MAN CREATES HIS OWN SUFFERING. PEOPLE WHO HAVE MUCH LESS ARE WAY LESS MISERABLE. POSITIVE ATTITUDE IS THE KEY TO EVERYTHING. A CONVERSATION WITH BIF NAKED “Happy Monday!” Bif Naked answers the phone, her warm tone and bright personality [...]
LIVING IN AN INFERNO, LIVING IN AN OVEN A CONVERSATION WITH ROBERT FORSTER In 1976, while attending the University of Queensland, Robert Forster meets Grant McLennan in a drama class. Within two years they have formed a band, The Go-Betweens, [...]
ONCE WERE BROTHERS: ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND (TIFF) DIRECTED BY DANIEL ROHER On November 25, 1976, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, The Band played its farewell concert,which would come to be known forever as The Last Waltz. The [...]
COME ON, LEAVE YOUR WORLD BEHIND A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE McCARTNEY (MIKE McGEAR) Peter Michael McCartney was born on January 7, 1944. He was the second of two sons born to Jim and Mary McCartney. As with his older brother, he would go by his [...]
THE AGE OF GRUNGE AND INDUSTRIAL MUSIC – AND IT WAS FUCKING DOPE A CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD PATRICK OF FILTER Twenty years ago, Richard Patrick was an “out of his mind” alcoholic in the midst of a secret, “mad, head over heels, first [...]
IT’S EASY TO BE WEIRD, BUT IT’S NOT SO EASY TO BE WEIRD AND RELATABLE AT THE SAME TIME A CONVERSATION WITH ROSS MILLARD OF THE FUTUREHEADS After a six-year hiatus, The Futureheads are finally back and better than ever. This post-punk UK band [...]
LOVE, RESPECT, AND UNITY: 20 YEARS OF PUNKS AGAINST RACISM A CONVERSATION WITH CONCERT FOUNDER JOSH GOTTLIEB What started as a high school project on racism awareness in the ‘90s has evolved into an event that has lasted two decades. Punk [...]
SUGAR, SUGAR: A FINE EXAMPLE OF 1960’S POP A CONVERSATION WITH SONGWRITER ANDY KIM The 1960’s came to a crashing end with all the events of 1969. The Moon Landing, the Stonewall Riots, Richard Nixon’s presidency, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and [...]
THAT ‘GOOSE BUMPS ON YOUR ARM CONNECTION’ A CONVERSATION WITH JASON CORBETT OF ACTORS ACTORS has been on tour non-stop since their Artoffact Records debut It Will Come To You was released in 2018, reaching the likes of Sweden, Denmark, [...]
ENTHUSIASTIC, VERBOSE, AND PARTY A CONVERSATION WITH GRAHAM WRIGHT OF GIRLFRIEND MATERIAL AND TOKYO POLICE CLUB Graham Wright, a talented musician, a Photoshop comedian, and a prolific writer, has been performing in bands since he was in high [...]
ALL ABOUT HELPING BANDS A CONVERSATION WITH DARRYL HURS OF INDIE WEEK AND CD BABY Darryl Hurs is a very busy guy. The founder of Indie Week and Canada’s director of market development for CD Baby admits he gets only about four hours of sleep a [...]
EMBRACING THE LIGHT A CONVERSATION WITH DANIEL DARROW OF THE PULL OF AUTUMN The Pull Of Autumn is a collective of artists, pulled together by Daniel Darrow and Luke ‘Skyscraper’ James. In 2018, they released their self-titled debut album, an [...]
IT’S NOT ABOUT THE BAND…IT’S ABOUT THE FANS A CONVERSATION WITH FRANKIE BANALI OF QUIET RIOT While fully into the swing of their summer tour schedule, Quiet Riot drummer Frankie Banali took some time out for a quick discussion ahead of Heavy [...]
RUSHING THROUGH MY BONES A CONVERSATION WITH SHAHEENA DAX OF SHE MADE ME DO IT She Made Me Do It is a name that you are not quickly to forget. This two-piece electronica band, based in London, has been creating its own sound for the past six [...]
