BAND OVERBOARD!!! THE 9th ANNUAL MONSTERS OF ROCK CRUISE SETS SAIL FEBRUARY 24 – MARCH 1, 2019 Tesla…Queensryche…Saxon…Skid Row…Pat Travers Band… it almost seems like I’m flipping through a copy of Kerrang Magazine, but I’m not. I’m actually [...]
ROLLIN’ STONED AND LIVIN’ FREE A CONVERSATION WITH JORDAN GRIFFIN OF THEM EVILS Them Evils might just be the best band you’ve never heard of — for now, that is. The So-Cal based power trio, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Jordan [...]
DOWN AND DIRTY, OLD SCHOOL ROCK AND ROLL A CONVERSATION WITH MATT JAMES OF BLACKTOP MOJO 2017 proved to be a monumental year for Blacktop Mojo. The Palestine, Texas outfit released their sophomore record Burn The Ships, which included their now [...]
TRON MEETS THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT A CONVERSATION WITH VINCE CLARKE OF ERASURE In 1985 Vince Clarke placed an ad in the music magazine Melody Maker looking for a vocalist for his new project. By 1985, Clarke was already a veteran in the music [...]
DESERTS, ECHOES & DAD A CONVERSATION WITH DOM FRICOT “I have been very transient for the last four years, and it is really hard to carry albums around everywhere, but I love vinyl. When my music gets pressed on vinyl, I will know I have [...]
TAMING THE LION A CONVERSATION WITH RUN MAGGIE RUN Run Maggie Run is in as interesting and productive a place as any band could hope for. Having spent 2017 honing their live sound and performing their debut album, self-titled album the Hamilton, [...]
Strvngers Amor/Noir Negative Gain Strvngers is a Canadian duo, and Armor/Noir is their third album, and perhaps their most accessible. Hailing from small town Alberta, Maria Joaquin (vocals) and KC (music) have honed their craft very well on [...]
THERE’S REALLY NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT A CONVERSATION WITH JOHN FLANAGAN John Flanagan may be described as a singer/songwriter from Australia, but that is only one part of who he is and what he does. John Flanagan is an artist, and along [...]
CHILEAN SHOEGAZE FOR THE MASSES A CONVERSATION WITH MAFF Maff is a quartet, originally from and still based in Chile. Melaniña is their second release, following their debut album Maff (2014). The band consists of Ricardo Gomez (vocals, [...]
THE MUSIC HAS CHANGED, BUT THE SAME PHILOSOPHY APPLIES A CONVERSATION WITH ANDY GILL OF GANG OF FOUR Andy Gill is the guitarist and one of the founding members of the iconic post-punk band Gang of Four, he has been the driving force behind the [...]
TO THE BONE A CONVERSATION WITH STEVEN WILSON Late in the summer of 2017, Steven Wilson released his fifth solo album To The Bone. It was surprising to many that the album entered the U.K. Official Album charts in the top three. Wilson’s highest [...]
ANOTHER IN A LONG LINE OF JUKE BOX HEROES A CONVERSATION WITH JEFF PILSON OF FOREIGNER I was first introduced to Jeff Pilson in the MTV era of the eighties when his band Dokken appeared regularly on TV, promoting both their Tooth and Nail and [...]
CRUISE TO THE EDGE A PROG ROCK FESTIVAL AT SEA? YES!!! If there was one album that defined my teen years, it would have to be Close to the Edge. Little did I dream that in four short decades (damn, I’m old), I would be able to CRUISE TO THE [...]
TWO FRIENDS STANDING STRONG IN FRONT OF THEIR MOSCOW APARTMENT A CONVERSATION WITH BRIGHID FRY & PASCALE PADILLA OF MOSCOW APARTMENT Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla are two high school friends who have another identity. They are Moscow [...]
A NOSTALGIC TOUR 50 YEARS IN THE MAKING A CONVERSATION WITH IAN ANDERSON OF JETHRO TULL Jethro Tull debuted as a band on, Feb. 2, 1968 at the Marquee Club in London, England. The central figure of the band was, and still is, Ian Anderson. They [...]
WE’RE HERE TO HELP ARTISTS, ANY WAY WE CAN A CONVERSATION WITH AWFULLY GOOD RECORDS’ ERIC WALDEN The image of a music industry executive often conjures the expected slew of classic horror stories of a cigar chomping suit secretly acquiring [...]
BLVCK LOVE A CONVERSATION WITH STRVNGERS Strvngers is a band, two members actually, from a small town in Alberta. The two members of the band, Maria Joaquin (vocals) and KC (music) came together in 2015 and since then have already released two [...]
EDDY GRANT’S RINGBANG TIME A CONVERSATION WITH EDDY GRANT Eddy Grant has had a long and diverse musical career. A founding member of the Equals, one of the United Kingdom’s first racially integrated pop groups, he is also known for a [...]
THE POWER OF DIY AND THE FUTURE OF TORONTO’S PUNK SCENE INTRODUCING BBQ POPE Over the last five years, Toronto has seen an explosion of underground music that has begun to solidify the city as a hotbed for raw, visceral, and sincere [...]
SUPPORTING SOBRIETY IN MUSIC A CONVERSATION WITH CHRIS TAIT OF ELECTRIC SIX When one has a substance abuse issue, keeping clean and sober is difficult in the best of situations (support, home, and stability are just three components) but for a [...]
INTRDCING ANMLPLNET A CONVERSATION WITH MICKEY VERSHBOW & LEAH WELLBAUM OF ANMLPLNET Meet ANMLPLNET (pronounced ‘animal planet’, “we left out the vowels to avoid copyright issues” the band jokes), a new band comprised of two very talented [...]
QUITTING IS NOT AN OPTION A CONVERSATION WITH ANTHRAX DRUMMER CHARLIE BENANTE Pretty much all Anthrax songs start with Charlie Benante. For their most recent album For All Kings, the band went into the studio with more songs than they have ever [...]
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOUND AND FURY AN INTERVIEW AND LIVE REVIEW OF IDLES @ HARD LUCK BAR, TORONTO March 20, 2018 There is a palpable duality to IDLES. In conversation, they are as open and considerate as their music is raw, punishing, and [...]
BOTANICAL GARDENS A CONVERSATION WITH DON McLEAN It has been eight years since the last Don McLean album. On March 16, 2018 he released his 19th studio album, Botanical Gardens. Perhaps it is not the album fans or one would expect from Don [...]
