Chris Cornell Chris Cornell Universal Music Few artists, if any, could successfully go from the unrelenting heaviness of “Jesus Christ Pose” to the warm gentleness of “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart” with an equal amount of quality, integrity, [...]
CRYING OR DANCING A CONVERSATION WITH MOTHER MOTHER Apathy was left at the door this time around as Mother Mother crafted their latest release Dance and Cry. “I wanted to get out of the realm of familiarity, to woefully stir up those creative [...]
The Beatles The Beatles (White Album): Super Deluxe Anniversary Edition Apple Corps Ltd./Universal Music 1968. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were both assassinated, The Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia; France had the Winter Olympics [...]
Mother Mother Dance And Cry Universal Music Apathy is checked at the door on Mother Mother’s newest album release, Dance and Cry. Made up of twelve striking tracks written by lead singer Ryan Guldemond, this album is an emotional and profound [...]
Blondie Heart Of Glass EP Numero Group/Universal Music 2019 promises to be a big year for Blondie fans. According to the band, Blondie are set to re-release their catalogue with many never before heard songs and versions of their hits. To whet [...]
Arkells Rally Cry Universal Music The newest release from nationally renowned Hamilton rockers Arkells sees them embracing their newfound fame in a big way. Piano-driven grooves dominate Rally Cry, giving the album a very humble sound that is [...]
John Lennon Imagine: The Ultimate Collection Universal Music Imagine was originally released in 1971 and was credited to John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band, but in actual fact it was John Lennon’s second solo album, his first being Plastic Ono [...]
Sam Roberts We Were Born In a Flame (Expanded Edition) Universal Music This album will always hold a special place for me; not only is it one of my favourite albums ever made (top twenty at least), it was also originally released in 2003, the [...]
FIVE YEARS OF GROWTH AND OPEN-MINDEDNESS A CONVERSATION WITH GARY LIGHTBODY OF SNOW PATROL When Snow Patrol front man Gary Lightbody sat down in 2013 and began penning a new song, centred around the theme of “life on Earth,” he couldn’t possibly [...]
Tony Bennett & Diana Krall Love Is Here To Stay Verve/Columbia Records/Universal Music With a shared love of two of the 20th Century’s greatest songwriters — George and Ira Gershwin — two of jazz’s all time great [...]
30 YEARS TO BLOW YOUR MIND A CONVERSATION WITH WILKO JOHNSON Wilko Johnson is a living legend. And the word ‘living’ is an important adjective, but we will get to that later. Johnson got his professional start in the classic band Dr. Feelgood, [...]
David Clayton-Thomas Mobius Independent Label Services/Universal Music The temptation for many artists from the classic rock era is to hit the nostalgia concert circuit, dragging out their greatest hits. Though touring was quite lucrative, [...]
Wilko Johnson Blow Your Mind Chess Records/Universal In 2014, much to everyone’s surprise, Wilko Johnson, who was handed a death sentence of a year in 2013 due to terminal pancreatic cancer, released an album with Roger Daltrey (Going Back Home) [...]
Paul McCartney New (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music This reissue seems a little odd. Paul McCartney is in the process of reissuing his older albums, many in expanded, box set formats. New was released a mere five years ago, but McCartney has [...]
Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Paul McCartney has made a point of reissuing his older albums over the last few years. Usually these take the form of expanded box sets, but on May 18 he is [...]
Paul McCartney Wings Greatest (Reissue) MPL/Universal Music Over the last few years, Paul McCartney has rereleased several of his albums, usually in a variety of formats and usually in expanded editions. On May 18, 2018 he is rereleasing four [...]
Blossoms Cool Like You Universal Music/EMI Remember the Brighton-based foursome The Kooks? They were literally the soundtrack to the summer of 2006 with several singles taken from their debut Inside In/Inside Out. The British public loved them [...]
The Who Live At The Fillmore East 1968 Geffen/Universal Music It seems an odd task, writing a review for a recording which has existed (as a bootleg) for almost fifty years. But when you’ve been rocking it out for as long as The Who have, the [...]
BANNERS “SOMEONE TO YOU” THE SOUNDTRACK FOR ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ AMERICAN IDOL MENTOR APPEARANCE ON APRIL 16 + HEADLINE CANADIAN TOUR Prolific Liverpool UK native BANNERS, is pleased to share that his burgeoning single “Someone to You,” is the [...]
Sloan 12 Murderecords/Universal Music Sloan is one of those Canadian bands I’ve always liked, so I was looking forward to hearing their 12th album, fittingly titled 12, and featuring 12 new songs by the band. Each of the four founding [...]
Lil Yachty Lil Boat 2 Universal Music Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty (“The King Of The Teens”, “King of The Youth”) has the admirable ability not to take himself too seriously, but unfortunately a lot of his humour seems to have deserted him on this [...]
Dear Rouge Phases Universal Music A few years have now passed since 2015’s Black to Gold garnered electronic rock duo Dear Rouge acclaim, accolades, and airplay. Now the Vancouver based band is taking a stab at the charts once again with [...]
HAPPY TO SING THE BLUES A CONVERSATION WITH MYLES GOODWYN Where does one even start when writing about Myles Goodwyn? He has been a huge presence in the music scene since the early 1970’s, writing, producing and performing some of the most [...]
Randy Bachman By George By Bachman Universal Music This is an odd one, or maybe just unexpected. Bachman has been issuing solo albums for many years, and By George By Bachman is Randy Bachman’s first studio release since 2015’s Heavy Blues. By [...]
