2016 CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS NOMINATIONS SEPTEMBER 21 @ TORONTO CITY HALL, MEMBER LOUNGE The nominees for this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards (CFMA) were announced at Toronto City Hall during the second annual National Strum event. Members [...]
15 YEARS LATER AND STILL EATING AN INTERVIEW WITH ZACH LIND AND RICK BURCH OF JIMMY EAT WORLD 23 years and 8 albums later Jimmy Eat World haven’t slowed down a bit. Gearing up for the release of their ninth album Integrity Blues the alt rockers [...]
WILLFULLY NOISY AND LOUD AN INTERVIEW WITH FRESH SNOW KEYBOARDIST & PRODUCER TIM CONDON I caught up with Tim Condon, guitarist, keyboardist and producer for Fresh Snow, to discuss the band’s second album, ONE, which was released to critical [...]
A QUARTER-LIFE CRISIS NEVER SOUNDED SO DREAMY AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA JACKLIN Julia Jacklin has garnered a lot of attention these days, and for good reason. The Australian singer-songwriter has charmed listeners with her Americana-infused Indie [...]
INSIDE RYAN MacDONALD’S HONEST HEART AN INTERVIEW WITH RYAN MacDONALD OF THE HONEST HEART COLLECTIVE For a few years now, Thunder Bay-based independent group The Honest Heart Collective has been on an almost-constant trek along every stop [...]
25 YEARS OF TINY LITTLE GOALS AN INTERVIEW WITH DONITA SPARKS OF L7 L7 was a successful band in the Grunge-dominated musical climate of the late ’80s.After the band’s dissolution in 2001, its members mainly took a back seat from the music [...]
A SPILL VIDEO FEATURE – THE MARROWS AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS FORT Hi. My name is Chris and I like guitar and I like comics and I like skateboards. I’m in a band called Treefort. We are part of Trondo’s open-mic scene, and I’d like [...]
NEVERMIND TURNS 25 As the 1980s came to an end, popular music hadn’t changed all that much. In the first few years of the ’90s, Synthpop, New Jack Swing and Hair Metal still dominated the airwaves and MTV. However, in the fall 1991 a trio from [...]
REDEFINED METAL AN INTERVIEW WITH NATHAN BRIGGS OF SONIC SYNDICATE Sonic Syndicate has created a hard, harsh mix of sonic brutality over the course of 14 years.After touring with many Metalcore and Death Metal bands it appeared to have found a [...]
LED ZEPPELIN – DAY BY DAY AN INTERVIEW WITH MARC ROBERTY – AUTHOR OF LED ZEPPELIN “DAY BY DAY” Led Zeppelin – who hasn’t heard of them, one of the legendary giants of the Hard Rock genre? Many stories, myths and legends [...]
PERSEVERANCE AN INTERVIEW WITH DAN MANGAN Q: How did your influences change from your past album to the newest one, Unmake? A: Influence is an interesting saying; when you’re young or a teenager, you get nailed with a million things that [...]
BOILER ROOM SETS AND VIDEO GAMES AN INTERVIEW WITH HARRISON Toronto DJ and producer Harrison dropped out of university after a three-month stint to pursue a career in music; a career that was put in motion when, in the 7th grade, he pulled down [...]
RETURN TO GAINSBOURG MICK HARVEY DISCUSSES DELIRIUM TREMENS Songwriter. Lyricist. Arranger. Cultural provocateur. Serge Gainsbourg fulfilled all of these roles in his lifetime and did so brilliantly. Following in the lineage, if not the actual [...]
NOT BLOOD PAINT – BELIEVING IS BELIEVING A TRACK-BY-TRACK GUIDE Not Blood Paint is a theatrically vivid—and sonically intense—four-piece from Bushwick, formed in 2008 by guitarists George Frye and Joe Stratton, bassist Mark Jaynes and [...]
ROSE CORA PERRY AND THE TRUTH UNTOLD AN INTERVIEW WITH ROSE CORA PERRY In the early 2000s, Rose Cora Perry was busy making a name for herself and her London, Ontario-based band Anti-Hero. It was a group that truly gave Rose the much-needed [...]
CHANNELLING THE SPIRIT OF LITTLE RICHARD IN THE NAME OF METAL AN INTERVIEW WITH DORO Doro Pesch is an iconic Heavy Metal legend, unwavering and remaining as true as steel in her chosen profession for many years. She has refused to be forced and [...]
FROM LEATHER JACKET TO PRIVATE SCHOOL AN INTERVIEW WITH MAX KERMAN OF ARKELLS Hamilton’s Arkells have been riding an incline for quite a while now. Their debut record Jackson Square allowed for a modest entry to the Canadian music scene, and [...]
MAKING A BETTER FUTURE – TOGETHER AN INTERVIEW WITH SAM ROBERTS Sam Roberts Band, Juno Award-winning Rock band, released their latest single “If You Want It” on July 2, 2016 via Universal Music Canada. Written by Sam Roberts and produced [...]
SOULFULLY MAKING THAT CHANGE AN INTERVIEW WITH DURAND JONES Durand Jones is not what you might expect from a Soul-singer that commands so much attention on the microphone. He is a humble and jovial soft-spoken gentleman, true to his upbringing [...]
THE PRICE OF THE TICKET AN INTERVIEW WITH WENDY JAMES Wendy James is an English singer-songwriter most notable for her work with the pop band Transvision Vamp. She was the lead singer and focal point of the group, and attracted media attention [...]
GIVING HER LOVE AN INTERVIEW WITH PEACHES Peaches, aka Merrill Beth Nisker, is about to embark on her 2016 tour promoting her latest record, Rub, which recently has been given another musical treatment entitled Rub Remixed. Despite her sexually [...]
LED ZEPPELIN DEEMED NOT GUILTY IN STAIRWAY CASE JURY FINDS THE BAND INNOCENT OF PLAGIARISM A Los Angeles jury has found Led Zeppelin innocent in the controversial “Stairway to Heaven” copyright lawsuit. The verdict came Thursday, [...]
RANKING THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: WORST TO BEST Over the course of 33 years the Red Hot Chili Peppers have produced a total 11 studio albums. Some are downright classics, adored by critics and fans alike. Some are just okay; they might have six [...]
MODERN MUSICAL SAVIOURS AN INTERVIEW WITH ANDY ROURKE OF D.A.R.K. Just when music seemed to have hit a brick wall in terms of originality and freshness and I was beginning to despair regarding its future, hope is springing up. Borne out of a [...]
