From New Jersey to The Great White North, Burning Down the Road with The Last of the Duke Street Kings
“…when you realize how they tricked you this time / And it’s all lies but I’m strung out on the wire, in these / Streets of fire!” A stunned 16-year-old rose on wobbly legs, still awestruck by a performance that grabbed him, shook him loose and kept a steady strangle hold on his rock and […]
Amanda Rheaume’s Getting Comfortable with The Skin She’s In
What singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume was trying to convey in her 5th release is all there in the title. The Skin I’m In finds the musician in that kind of comfort zone we all aspire to cradle ourselves within, that warm place where you’re just peachy being you.
The Team Behind Bluesfest Announces New Festival in Conjunction with Winterlude
RBC Bluesfest organizers announced yesterday that they will launch the inaugural ‘Come See & Hear the World’ festival during this year’s Winterlude event. The festival will take place on February 15 and 16 and will focus on celebrating Canadian diversity through music. Featured artists include William Prince, Gabrielle Shonk, Tanya Tagaq, Antibalas, Sudan Archives, Harry Manx […]
Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy’s Celtic Family Christmas Gets Toes Tappin’ at the NAC!
The recent renos of the National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall may not have included a pantry, dining table and oven but they weren’t needed for Natalie MacMaster, Donnell Leahy and their all singin’, all fiddlin’, all dancin’ offspring to turn the place into the biggest kitchen party this side of Cape Breton!
Fast Romantics w/The Honest Heart Collective & Jacquie Neville Play Algonquin College Observatory
The atmosphere was electric and the music was pure and this crowd enthusiastically dove right into the night. College life at it’s best.
Pop Evil rocks The Gateway in Calgary
I found myself in a medium sized college venue on Sunday night. The room was starting to fill, and the line-up outside was still going strong, as Calgary locals The Path Less Travelled took the stage.
Pop Evil, Royal Tusk and Quiet Crimes Shock the Monkey
Photos by Laura Collins It was nearing the witching hour and this reviewer needed an extra jolt or six of caffeine to push through to the other side of the hard rock cacophony that was currently bringing the thunder down upon The Brass Monkey stage. Did I spy me a 24-hour Timmy’s next door? That […]
Megan Bonnell’s Separate Rooms
A singer/songwriter? A folk musician? Some new age indie artist? When approaching her third album, aptly titled Separate Rooms, Megan Bonnell realized she was all those things, comfortable to be in various places simultaneously.
The Headstones: Picture of Health 25 years later – a Cautionary Tale
On a chilly Friday night, a sizable crowd descended upon Calgary’s Grey Eagle Casino Event Centre. Two names on the bill: The Matchstick Skeletons and the Headstones – the former, a new project with some familiar faces, and the latter something of a Canadian rock institution, celebrating a milestone in their now decades-long career. Longtime […]
Q&Autogramm
Autogramm n (genitive Autogramms, plural Autogramme) 1. (signature of a celebrity given to a fan) autograph Jiffy Marx, C.C. Voltage and The Silo n 1. (rejected names for members of the band Poison) No…wait…Poison had a C.C. Nix that and pencil on in “accepted names for members of Vancouver’s Autogramm”. Now, I don’t know how […]