THE HEALING POWER OF MUSIC AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK MARCZYK OF LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA An infectious act by Toronto’s gifted Soul Motivators opened the rambunctious Balkan-klezmer-gypsy-party-funk-super-New-Years party on New Years Eve, featuring [...]
“DIRTY” DREAMS AND THE WILDERNESS OF FINDING HOME AN INTERVIEW WITH ABIGAIL LAPELL Abigail Lapell follows the dreamy DIY textures of her 2011 album, Great Survivor, with her sophomore release Hide Nor Hair, recorded in Toronto’s Union Sound, and [...]
LIFE WITHOUT SOUND AN INTERVIEW WITH DYLAN BALDI OF CLOUD NOTHINGS The past few years have brought significant change for Cloud Nothings, and by extension, their frontman and principal songwriter Dylan Baldi. Baldi’s newest pet-project was [...]
THE WORLD IS A BALL AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTHA JOHNSON & MARK GANE OF MARTHA AND THE MUFFINS The first things you notice when you sit down with Martha Johnson and Mark Gane (the core of Martha and The Muffins) is that they are warm, polite, [...]
THE DOORS – 50th ANNIVERSARY The story of The Doors is almost as mystical as their music. It is one of fate and legend. It begins on Venice Beach in the summer 1965. UCLA film graduate, Ray Manzerek, is contemplating his future whilst [...]
STAYING HUNGRY FOR THE MUSIC HOW DANTE DECARO KEEPS HIS VIGOR FOR LIFE After a year of touring with the newly reunited Wolf Parade, Dante Decaro seems to have no intentions of slowing down. While music for his November 4th EP release, Kill Your [...]
INTROSPECTION AND WHISKEY AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIE DOIRON AND MIKE PETERS OF JULIE & THE WRONG GUYS “I was invited to do a show at the Garrison, and I didn’t have a band”, Julie Doiron recalls during a recent telephone conversation. “A friend [...]
SEX, DRUMS, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL! THE HARDEST HITTING MAN IN SHOW BUSINESS AN INTERVIEW WITH DRUMMER KENNY ARONOFF “I’ll never be as great as I want to be, but I’m willing to spend the rest of my life trying to be as great as I can [...]
STRIPPED AN INTERVIEW WITH PETER MURPHY Scarfing down his breakfast, Peter Murphy is settling in for a string of interviews. The 59-year-old singer has just arrived in San Francisco ahead of his show at The Chapel, having just kicked off the [...]
BRETT HELLINGS TALKS ABOUT THE SOUL SHAKERS FORMATION, BRINGING GOOD ‘OL ROCK ‘N’ ROLL BACK, AND MORE AN INTERVIEW WITH BRETT HELLINGS OF THE SOUL SHAKERS Rock ‘n’ Roll is a very diverse term in today’s society. There hasn’t [...]
LET’S BE READY AN INTERVIEW WITH GAVIN GARDINER OF THE WOODEN SKY When Gavin Gardiner and his bandmates in The Wooden Sky gathered a group of friends in a cozy church for a small holiday show seven years ago, it never crossed the [...]
THE RED MAN FILM REVIEW AND INTERVIEW WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER JOHN ACQUAVIVA “This film is a surrealist Faustian tale in DJ clothing,” Canadian dance music pioneer and Executive Producer John Acquaviva says, as he unpacks the dense Jungian [...]
EMBRASSER LA MYTHOLOGIE AN INTERVIEW WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM I still remember the night I first heard Delerium’s “Silence (ft. Sarah McLachlan).” It was a snowy evening and I was in the car with my parents and sister. We were returning home [...]
LOWELL INVIGORATES WITH ELECTRIFIED NORTHERN SOUND AN INTERVIEW WITH LOWELL There’s been a lot of buzz surrounding the release of her latest Part 1: Paris YK EP, which brings three new tracks, imbued with reflections on a formative period of [...]
CONJURERS AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK CHADWICK: SINGER/GUITARIST OF THE LEVELLERS Musicians Mark Chadwick and Jeremy Cunningham met in The Eagle, a pub in Brighton, in 1988. Discovering that they had a fair bit in common, including a left-wing view [...]
THE ROLLING STONES TOP 10 ALBUMS With The Rolling Stones’ upcoming release Blue & Lonesome, the bands first studio album in over a decade, we’ve decided to celebrate this momentous occasion by ranking the bands’ top ten studio albums. 10. [...]
MUSIC THAT MAKES YOU THINK AN INTERVIEW WITH ROB GARZA OF THIEVERY CORPORATION Rob Garza and Eric Hilton have been making music as Thievery Corporation for over two decades. They’ve done it all while sticking to their influences and what they [...]
POLITICS, LEONARD COHEN & SONG WRITING AN INTERVIEW WITH ANN VRIEND Canadian musician Ann Vriend is on the rise to fame. With a lifelong background in music and a set of lungs to boot, it’s no wonder she’s been earning positive reviews from [...]
THE BLINDING DARK AN INTERVIEW WITH JOAKIM MONTELIUS OF COVENANT Covenant’s ninth album, The Blinding Dark, which came out on November 4, follows the band’s original guiding principle that change must be their only constant. Released on [...]
RESONATING SOLO AN INTERVIEW WITH GLENN HUGHES Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the highly anticipated 12th original Glenn Hughes album Resonate — released on Friday November 4, 2016. The album dovetails Glenn’s U.K. and European [...]
MOTHLIGHT A BAND SHARES THEIR THOUGHTS ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS, CHANGES & HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM I’m in a band. It’s called Mothlight and for the better part of the last year we’ve spent our time and money writing & [...]
RESCUING CHICKENS AN INTERVIEW WITH JORDAN BAGNALL OF MY BODY A youthful female voice spills through my phone. It belongs to Jordan Bagnall, the twenty-something lyricist, singer and producer of electronic, synth-pop duo, My Body. She formed the [...]
GOODNIGHT CITY AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTHA WAINWRIGHT When you hear the name Wainwright, a handful of talented musicians and performers come to mind. Martha’s latest album Goodnight City just raised the Wainwright bar. She began her [...]
BAUHAUS UNDEAD: THE VISUAL HISTORY AND LEGACY OF BAUHAUS AN INTERVIEW WITH BAUHAUS DRUMMER & AUTHOR KEVIN HASKINS Bauhaus were an English Post-Punk band, formed in Northampton, England in 1978. The group consisted of Peter Murphy (vocals, [...]
