THE SUN WILL SHINE ON THROUGH A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF BURROWS OF THE TEA PARTY Hailing from Windsor, The Tea Party have been a pillar in the Canadian rock music scene since the ‘90s. Despite disbanding in 2005, the trio have since reformed and [...]
FORMED BY THE STARS A CONVERSATION WITH HOWARD JONES In 1983 a new electronica single was released called “New Song”, and it could possibly be one of the most positive records released that decade up to that point. Howard Jones burst on to the [...]
GALLACTIC WARRIORS ASSAULT ROCK A CONVERSATION WITH GWAR Peddling their 15th album, The New Dark Ages, GWAR’s current massacre circuiting the U.S. and Europe is The Black Death Rager Tour, a reference to both the Black Plague that decimated a [...]
THE STORY OF AMERICA A CONVERSATION WITH FANTASTIC NEGRITO With the upcoming release of his fourth album and first short film approaching, Fantastic Negrito (Xavier Dphrepaulezz) remains an artist in the truest sense. Dropping on June 3, White [...]
AN IDEA OF WHAT COLOUR SOUNDS LIKE A CONVERSATION WITH FADER Fader made their debut in 2017 with the brilliant album, First Light. The band was and is a duo consisting of Neil Arthur (Blancmange, Near Future) and Ben Edwards, known as Benge [...]
SONGS FROM PEOPLE ARE ALSO SONGS ABOUT PEOPLE A CONVERSATION WITH DARI MAKSYMOVA OF 6TH CROWD Near the end of Ukrainian electronic producer 6TH CROWD’s “Sokolonko,” Dari Maksymova’s vocal multiplies into a chorus entreating in Ukrainian, “Hey, [...]
DON’T YOU FEEL CLOSER? A CONVERSATION WITH CY CURNIN OF THE FIXX In 1979, Cy Curnin and Adam Woods (drums) formed a band together, named Portraits. By 1982, the band added some key members, changed their name to The Fixx and had released [...]
WHEN LOVE IS ON YOUR SIDE, IT’S A BEAUTIFUL LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH DOROTHY Few up and coming rock ‘n’ roll artists are as revered and respected as Dorothy. Having made waves with her explosive debut album, 2016’s ROCKISDEAD, and her 2018 [...]
I’M ON MY WAY TO A PERFECT DAY A CONVERSATION WITH DREW ARNOTT & ROB BAILEY OF STRANGE ADVANCE: PART TWO Now that Strange Advance’s return has come to fruition, over thirty years later, with 4, and the band’s first live shows in over [...]
WAKING UP INTO THE NEW HORIZON A CONVERSATION WITH ALICE COHEN Alice Cohen has been performing since she was 14 when she was performing in coffee houses in Philadelphia, where she was born. By the late 1970s she was developing her songwriting [...]
SILVERSTEIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “LIVE LIKE THIS” FEATURING nothing,nowhere. NEW ALBUM MISERY MADE ME OUT ON MAY 6 VIA UNFD/NSEW RECORDINGS Silverstein has collaborated with emo/hip-hop shaker nothing,nowhere. for a gripping new [...]
I’M ON MY WAY TO A PERFECT DAY A CONVERSATION WITH DREW ARNOTT & ROB BAILEY OF STRANGE ADVANCE: PART ONE After a lengthy, decades long hiatus, Strange Advance, the Canadian Juno-nominated, gold-selling band is back from their ‘80s [...]
CRUISE TO THE EDGE 2022 THIS YEAR’S PROG CRUISE MAKES A LOT OF NOISE. A WHOLE LOT OF NOISE. In the lobby of Homewood Suites Hotel in Port Canaveral, a life-size model of an astronaut greets us, but it’s not the Space Center that has lured Dorie [...]
THE BEST PARTIES YOU GO TO ARE THE ONES YOU DON’T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS FOR A CONVERSATION WITH BILL LEEB OF DELERIUM Delerium started out as a side project for Bill Leeb, of Front Line Assembly fame, and Michael Balch, also from Front Line [...]
ROUGH TRADE IS WORK A CONVERSATION WITH ROUGH TRADE’S CAROLE POPE WITH BERNARD FRAZER (CHURCH OF TREES) In 1976, the first ‘direct to disc’ album was released by a relatively unknown Toronto band named Rough Trade. The album Rough Trade [...]
THE THERAPY OF CO-WRITING A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY LAESSIG OF LUCIUS When Lucius was ready to write its sophomore album, Good Grief, the band had come off of a bout of non-stop touring. “I think we were home two weeks out of the whole year,” [...]
DROWNING IN THE CULTURE A CONVERSATION WITH AVIV There is a lot happening for AVIV these days. The 16-year-old artist has not only just released her debut album, Drowning In The Culture, but she has been chosen to open for Imagine Dragons on the [...]
SILVERSTEIN RELEASE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO “DIE ALONE” FEATURING ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID NEW ALBUM MISERY MADE ME OUT ON MAY 6 VIA UNFD/NSEW RECORDINGS Post-hardcore trailblazers Silverstein release their heaviest song ever today [...]
AJA A TRACK-BY-TRACK COMPARISON BETWEEN STEELY DAN’S ORIGINAL AND THE DARCYS 2012 REMAKE It is a bold statement to attempt to remake decade defining albums. While they are generally no match for their predecessor, artists like Camper Van [...]
MY HEART IS AN ICE CREAM CONE A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOZZIO OF MISSING PERSONS “I can recite the whole book verbatim. It can really drive you crazy, but that is the kind of mind I have. Everything is saved and filed in my head and I go to them [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART TWO From start to finish, Heavy Steps is a high-octane, aggressive, and technically successful percussive record. Tracks like “Crossed” and [...]
HEADBANGERS FOR S.T.M.V. A CONVERSATION WITH SAVE TORONTO MUSIC VENUES & HEADBANGERS HAIR SALON As the pandemic continues to drag on into 2022, artistic communities and independent businesses globally have struggled to keep their heads above [...]
D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings Troika Inside Out Music D’Virgilio, Morse & Jennings is a new band featuring some very seasoned musicians. Neal Morse brought the band together, which includes fellow Spock’s Beard and Big Big [...]
HEAVY STEPS ON HOLLOW GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH ANDREW NEUFELD OF COMEBACK KID: PART ONE Comeback Kid have been innovating the hardcore genre for the past 20 years. Never being a band to stay tied to the same old tricks within the music [...]
