VANCOUVER, YOKO ONO & CRICKETS A CONVERSATION WITH ORA COGAN Ora Cogan is a Canadian treasure. Her music defies labelling, it simply must be experienced. She has produced some of the most unique and truly brilliant albums over the past ten [...]
FOUR ON THE FLOOR STONER ROCK AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDRE SKINNER OF SLOW DEATH LIGHTS “Although our 2015 EP was a good showcase of our sound, it didn’t capture our full vision and songwriting ability of the band simply due to time and budget [...]
PUPPETS, APPS & HORROR MOVIES AN INTERVIEW WITH HUMANS Robbie and Peter of Vancouver, BC started their project HUMANS in 2008. Since then, the duo has been very busy, touring, signing with Mom+Pop Records, collaborating with The Roots, [...]
UNDER YOUR SPELL AN INTERVIEW WITH CHIBI OF THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE Longtime fans of the Toronto indie music scene will at some point have come across the grand theatrics and mesmerizing music of London, Ontario’s own The Birthday Massacre. [...]
SUBSTANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH BASS-PLAYING LEGEND AND EX-JOY DIVISION/NEW ORDER MEMBER PETER HOOK Does Peter Hook really require an introduction I wondered when starting to write this piece, probably not I concluded. To play with not one but two [...]
TRAVELLING AND PLAYING ROCK N’ ROLL WITH MY FRIENDS AN INTERVIEW WITH LUKE BENTHAM OF THE DIRTY NIL Their vocals are almost as wild, loud, and crass as the feedback that guitarist/vocalist Luke Bentham uses as an instrument of his own. Their [...]
HEAVY BASS LICKS AND CRISP PERCUSSION A CONVERSATION WITH ENZO SIRAGUSA When a DJ is inspired by every party he attends – be it break beat to classic house to drum and bass – what does he do? For Enzo Siragusa, London DJ and Producer, he [...]
ANOTHER ANOTHER AN IN-DEPTH TRACK-BY-TRACK ALBUM ANALYSIS WITH KURT SWINGHAMMER Kurt Swinghammer is set to release his first full length album since 2011’s Turpentine Wind. And a new release from Mr. Swinghammer is always cause for [...]
MOVE YOUR FEET A CONVERSATION WITH MAKER There is a great film clip of a reporter talking to John Lennon in America. The reporter has no idea who The Beatles are and certainly does not know who Lennon is. He asks John “Which one are you?” to [...]
HARLEM TO HOLLYWOOD A CONVERSATION WITH BILLY VERA “People have been bugging me for years, then I finally found an angle, just tell like it is” says Billy Vera on his autobiography, Billy Vera: Harlem to Hollywood (Backbeat Books). “I just want [...]
READY FOR THE LONG ROAD AHEAD A CONVERSATION WITH GREENHOUSE Call it the Greenhouse effect if you like, but these four young (the eldest, lead vocalist Sacha Katz is 19, while the remainder of the band are still in High School), can win you over [...]
SPARKS-RE-IGNITED AN INTERVIEW WITH RUSSELL MAEL – VOCALIST WITH SPARKS Sparks have been plying their eccentric style of music and brand since the seventies. The band has survived the changing tides and trends for many years just doing [...]
CREATING GREAT MOMENTS IN ROCK AN INTERVIEW WITH BILLY DUFFY OF THE CULT I’m sitting in ‘Old Whistler’ (my van/home on the road) anticipating a phone call from legendary guitarist Billy Duffy of The Cult. They are touring a brand new album, [...]
METROPOLIS, MAUSOLEUMS & TRAMPOLINES AN INTERVIEW WITH QUIET DOMINO The brain child of San Franciscan singer/songwriter Mark Nelsen, Quiet Domino is getting ready to drop their debut single “Metropolium” on May 19th. Recently we caught up [...]
RUSH: ALBUM-BY-ALBUM AN INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR “MR. METAL” MARTIN POPOFF Martin Popoff is a Canada born journalist,critic and author. He is mainly known for writing about the genre of heavy metal music. He recently added yet another [...]
IF IT AIN’T BROKE….. AN INTERVIEW WITH JIMI BELL – GUITARIST FROM HOUSE OF LORDS/MAXX EXPLOSION Saint of the Lost Souls is House Of Lords’ tenth studio album, following up the highly successful Indestructible. The band [...]
SACRIFICE, MOTIVATION & DRIVE AN INTERVIEW WITH MANNIE FRESH Byron O. Thomas is nothing short of success. You probably know his song “Real Big,” released in 2004 on his album The Mind of Mannie. Mannie Fresh, the American rapper, producer [...]
14 STEPS TO HARLEM A CONVERSATION WITH GARLAND JEFFREYS Garland Jeffreys is a legend. That is a fact. I don’t know that he would agree with me, but let it be said, Mr. Garland Jeffreys is a legend. His first solo album which was self-titled, [...]
THE RETURN OF ANDY McMASTER AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY McMASTER (THE MOTORS) In March 1980, The Motors released a brilliant album, Tenement Steps. What fans didn’t know was by the time the album was released the band had disbanded. “We split before [...]
SONGS OF DARKNESS AND DESPAIR AN AMUSING DISCUSSION WITH BILL MOSELEY AND PHIL ANSELMO OF BILL & PHIL Musical styles and collaborations are nothing new, but sometimes one does actually cause you to sit up and ask wow,” I wonder what that [...]
FROM A ROUGH CUTT TO A NIGHTLIFE IN NEON-TRAVERSING THE MUSICAL GENRES AN INTERVIEW WITH AMIR DERAKH OF JULIEN-K Amir Derakh has had a varied and colourful musical career. From eighties hair metal, through nu metal Orgy, and then ultimately to [...]
JON GALLANT OF BILLY TALENT TALKS JUNO CUP, CHILDHOOD ASPIRATIONS OF PLAYING HOCKEY, COMING BACK TO OTTAWA, AND MORE A CONVERSATION WITH JON GALLANT OF BILLY TALENT Sometimes we forget that sports are also a form of entertainment. A lot of [...]
SHE IS LOST A CONVERSATION WITH THE FOREIGN RESORT You have done extensive touring, a lot of it in USA where you’ve been over 15 times, what draws you to come back and play again? First of all, we have good fans in the United States, [...]
WILLIAM PRINCE TALKS JUNO WEEKEND, THE STRESSES OF TOURING AWAY FROM FAMILY, AND MORE A CONVERSATION WITH WILLIAM PRINCE With a roster of such astoundingly talented artists in town for JUNO week and weekend, so many events, and so much going on [...]
