The Scene Unseen | September 13, 2017 | How To Not Not Make It In The Music Biz Want success for your band? Feel like you’re spinning your wheels? Contacts go as fast (or faster) than they come? That’s ok. The first step is admitting there’s a [...]
The Scene Unseen | January 24, 2017 | ATTENTION! ATTENTION! Late 60’s Psychedelic era… the birth of “free” music… sexual revolution… Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison…it was so beautiful because it was all about [...]
The Scene Unseen | December 5, 2016 | Time It just keeps on ticking away. You can’t grab it. You can’t stop it. But you can slow it down. You can speed it up. “Time flies when you’re having fun.” It’s no cliché; it’s the truth. The inverse is [...]
The Scene Unseen | September 23, 2016 | The Voice How quickly and easily we can destroy our own life’s work. Our dreams shattered by an egoistic comment, an off night, or simply trying too hard. What a bunch of bullshit! The opening statement is [...]
The Scene Unseen | July 27, 2016 | Vampires They only come out at night, slithering in and out of clubs, drinking, sweating and watching you scream. They are the creatures of the night, the blood-sucking shape-changers and life-giving [...]
The Scene Unseen | June 27, 2016 | The Reach Inspiration. Sometimes it looks like a big scary monster, but it just wants to be your friend. Where does it come from? How do we keep it going? Well I have some ideas; some you may not like, some you [...]
The Scene Unseen | April 29, 2016 | On The Road Again The East Coast is cold in April, a biting, nasty cold that gets into your proverbial bones. I’m on a solo tour across the East Coast while my drummer honeymoons in the South Pacific; there [...]
The Scene Unseen | March 30, 2016 | Leader Of The Pack As an artist and a human being, we just want to be noticed. What is the driving force behind this? We’ve already determined that it’s not all ego, and when it is it’s stomach-turningly [...]
The Scene Unseen | February 26, 2016 Flying home after a beautiful week of surfing in Costa Rica makes me pensive. Turning my fucking phone off for a week may also have something to do with it. I try not to think about the damage to my credit [...]
The Scene Unseen | January 25, 2016 The definition of insanity is “repeating the same thing over and over and expecting different results,” according to Urban Dictionary. Actually no, it’s not, and you shouldn’t believe everything you read on [...]
The Scene Unseen | December 29, 2015 We arrive at the empty club early in the evening, drag five hundred-plus pounds of awkwardly shaped gear and twisted cables onto a sticky stage and start piecing the puzzle together. After sound check, if the [...]
The Scene Unseen | November 25, 2015 It’s a hell of a way to spend a week night, getting liquored up to screaming guitars and people yelling into your already damaged eardrums over the racket. The voices become a drone, and you nod your head and [...]
Jim Dan Dee Five Stiff Shots Independent Pass me the bourbon-fueled funkabilly grunge blues!! Hometown Toronto heroes James Stefanuk, Shawn Royal, Scott Morris and Bobby Seweryneck hammer us with some pumped-up, alt blues booty-shaking tunes on [...]
