IT’S ABOUT THE MUSIC – EVERYTHING ELSE IS SECONDARY A CONVERSATION WITH KENNETH WOMACK – AUTHOR OF JOHN LENNON, 1980: THE LAST DAYS IN THE LIFE October 9, 2020 would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday. To celebrate this [...]
HELL YEAH. A CONVERSATION WITH ANDEE BLACKSUGAR OF BLACK SUGAR TRANSMISSION Andee Blacksugar, Brooklyn-based founder of Black Sugar Transmission, celebrates this month the release of his third album of 2020, Dream Finisher, which follows [...]
IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO TURN AROUND SAM ROBERTS DISCUSSES ALL OF US There is an unmistakable feeling that comes with the music of the Sam Roberts Band, an unmissable energy that propels all that they do and all that they create – a [...]
AN ALBUM OF STORIES A CONVERSATION WITH OH SUSANNA (SUZIE UNGERLEIDER) Suzie Ungerleider, who goes by Oh Susanna, has just rereleased her very popular Sleepy Little Sailor album, supplementing the 11 original tracks with another five acoustic [...]
…AND THE COUNTRY STIRRED A CONVERSATION WITH ALEX SOUTHEY “I am always a little wary of making something super catchy. When I came up with this song, I thought, I don’t know if I want to include this. I didn’t think it suited the weirdness [...]
THAT GOOD OLD FASHIONED RAZZMATAZZ A CONVERSATION WITH DALLON WEEKES OF I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME It’s all in the name: I Dont Know How But They Found Me (iDKHOW) is a band that spent their entire first year of conception in near [...]
GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME A CONVERSATION WITH CINDY BLACKMAN SANTANA File Give The Drummer Some under the ‘albums you didn’t hear about but should most definitely check out’ category. The latest album from Cindy Blackman Santana – former, long time [...]
MUSIC GONE LOCO A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN MOSCROP & DONALD JOHNSON OF A CERTAIN RATIO 40 years into their career, with a recent successful catalogue reissue and their first new album in 12 years, the members of A Certain Ratio are now [...]
TO FEEL OUR HUMANITY IN SOLIDARITY A CONVERSATION WITH NINA HAGEN After nearly a decade without releasing any new music, punk rock queen and innovator Nina Hagen has made her triumphant return with “Unity”. The cult legend has teamed up with [...]
EYES FOR YOU A CONVERSATION WITH DROP TOP ALIBI’S BRANDON GREGORY Few rock bands from Ontario get me nearly as excited as Toronto’s very own Drop Top Alibi. This is a band who, since 2017, has been releasing hard-hitting and melodic rock [...]
FOR YOUR LISTENING AND DANCING PLEASURE… A CONVERSATION WITH BETTE SMITH ‘I am a storyteller, and my album is a story in development…’ Her latest release, The Good, The Bad and The Bette, is a really fascinating album in which you never [...]
SATURDAY NIGHT ROCK AND ROLL PARTY A CONVERSATION WITH ICONIC RADIO PERSONALITY COUSIN BRUCIE (BRUCE MORROW) Cousin Brucie is a living legend who continues to shake things up and pave his own way in the world of radio. Bruce Morrow, known as [...]
ALL HAIL TO THE DUSTMAN A CONVERSATION WITH STEPHEN EVENS “He’s me. I am him. An exaggeration perhaps or mostly the part of me that is the show off. I picked the name because I thought it was clever. Even Stephens, Stephen EvEns, the other name [...]
NO CLICK TRACK, NO EDITS – 25 YEARS OF LIVE FAST, DIARRHEA A CONVERSATION WITH JOSH FREESE If you’ve listened to the radio even once in the last two decades, you’ve heard Josh Freese. As one of rock and pop’s most respected and go-to session [...]
A GENESIS IN MY BED A CONVERSATION WITH STEVE HACKETT From 1970 until 1977, Steve Hackett provided some of the most melodic and inventive guitar work in rock as a member of Genesis. You can hear his artistry on such classic albums as Foxtrot, [...]
WE SEE RED A CONVERSATION WITH CAITLIN STOKES OF CORLYX Lounging is not a word that really applies to Caitlin Stokes, however replete with a glass of red she was in a relaxed frame of mind for a fascinating talk about the very talented post punk [...]
REMEMBERING LEX GORE: A SPILL MAGAZINE MEMORIAL TRIBUTE BY SUSANA MEZA Five and a half years ago, I arrived in Toronto with a few heavy suitcases and the receipt of a 3-month payment for a bed in a dorm at the HI-Toronto Hostel. Feeling lost [...]
DEVIL PUT THE COAL IN THE GROUND A CONVERSATION WITH MUSICAL LEGEND STEVE EARLE “When you make art for a living and someone doesn’t like it, it is their opinion, but it’s impossible not to take it personally because it does [...]
I RULED THE NEST A CONVERSATION WITH SHIRLEY KING Daughter of the legendary B.B. King, Shirley King has just released a testament to her own talent with her third album Blues for a King. It really is a wonderfully diverse collection, moving [...]
HEY HEY, GET OUT OF THE WAY A CONVERSATION WITH TREVOR HURST OF ECONOLINE CRUSH Being a fan of rock music while living in Canada throughout the ‘90s likely meant you were a regular viewer of MuchMusic. At that time, most prominently featured of [...]
REMEMBERING RORY GALLAGHER 25 YEARS LATER A RETROSPECTIVE RANKING Rory Gallagher began his career with the power rock trio Taste in his native Ireland in the late ‘60s. After releasing two studio albums and two live recordings, the group [...]
DATABASE OF THE DEAD A CONVERSATION WITH BENJAMIN HACKMAN OF THE HOLY GASP In the span of a few years, a number of people close to The Holy Gasp leader Benjamin Hackman died. His father died of a heart attack, shortly afterwards his therapist [...]
LET THEM KNOW WE TRIED A CONVERSATION WITH ZAK RIZVI, RONNIE PLATT AND TOM BRISLIN OF KANSAS In 1974 Kansas released their self-titled debut album. After over three years of paying their dues, playing clubs and being the opening act, Kansas were [...]
EVERYTHING THEY WANT A CONVERSATION WITH DRYDEN MITCHELL OF ALIEN ANT FARM Dryden Mitchell, lead vocalist, founding member and rhythm guitarist of Alien Ant Farm is in a very positive frame of mind. Ant Farm have signed a new record deal with [...]
