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2005
 Laurel MacDonald - Luscinia's Lullaby2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 MacDonald is one of Canadian music’s little-known treasures, a gifted singer whose songs straddle traditional Cape Breton tunes and modern electronic sounds.... READMORE |
 Marianne Faithfull - Before the Poison2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Last time around, she collaborated with Beck and Billy Corgan, with mixed results. This time, Faithfull picks the perfect partners for her... READMORE |
 Ian Tyson - Songs from the Gravel Road2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 His voice remains as warm and rugged as a well-worn saddle. And his songs still resonate, although he’s singing about bronco riders,... READMORE |
 The Frames - Burn the Maps2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Fans of Alan Parker’s 1991 hit film The Commitments will recognize the Frames’ Glen Hansard as the movie’s red-haired guitarist Outspan Foster.... READMORE |
 Kings of Leon - A-Ha Shake Heartbreak2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 They came on like cartoon hillbillies, rural Ramones, with each member sharing the same last name. Only the Kings of Leon were... READMORE |
 John Butler Trio - Sunrise Over Sea2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 “Don’t call me hippie cause the way that I look,” sings the dreadlocked Butler on opener “Treat Yo Mama.” Australia’s answer to... READMORE |
 Amanda Stott - Chasing the Sky2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Remarkable voice, unremarkable material. Call it the Céline Syndrome. Stott, a farm girl from Brandon, Manitoba, has been dazzling listeners ever since... READMORE |
 Doves - Some Cities2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 What is it about Manchester bands that create melodically sweet sounds out of depressing subjects? Like the Smiths and the Stone Roses,... READMORE |
 Al Green - Everything’s OK2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 The good Reverend, who abandoned sexually-charged soul music in 1976 for the sacred sounds of gospel, made an inspired secular comeback album... READMORE |
 Colin Linden - Southern Jumbo2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 An ardent student of the blues (as a boy, he befriended Howlin’ Wolf and visited Tampa Red at his sickbed—much the same... READMORE |
 Amos Lee - Amos Lee2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 It was only a matter of time before the male equivalent of Norah Jones appeared. Lee, who cites both Stevie Wonder and... READMORE |
 Keren Ann - Nolita2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Gentle, introspective and almost narcotically slow, Keren Ann’s moody songs insinuate their way into the bloodstream like a potent drug. “La forme... READMORE |
 David Clayton-Thomas - Aurora2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 The gritty singer of Blood, Sweat and Tears released an admirable blues album with 1998’s Blue Plate Special. Here, Clayton-Thomas tackles a... READMORE |
 The High Speed Scene - The High Speed Scene2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 The members of this generic L.A. alt-rock trio must’ve thought they died and gone to heaven the day that Pharrell Williams of... READMORE |
 The Dissociatives - The Dissociatives2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 As leader of Australia’s Silverchair, Daniel Johns was plagued with anorexia and arthritis. But lately things have been looking up. First, the... READMORE |
 Anna Nalick - Wreck of the Day2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Her record label cites Tori Amos and Fiona Apple. And the 20-year-old native of Glendora, California does have something in common with... READMORE |
 Mike Ford - Canada Needs You, Volume One2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Like a hip teacher, ex-Moxy Früvous member Mike Ford gives life to historical figures usually confined to textbooks. Songs like the boisterous... READMORE |
 M.I.A. - Arular2005 | Administrator | Tuesday, 11 August 2009 Before her debut album arrived, the London-based Sri Lankan singer, born Maya Arulpragasam, was already an underground sensation. Influenced by Canada’s electro-punk... READMORE |
 Solomon Burke - Make Do with What you Got2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 The legendary r&b preacher returns from his Grammy-winning comeback album, Don’t Give Up on Me, with another superb collection of soulful covers.... READMORE |
 Sanctuary - The Heart Has its Reasons2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 An experimental classical group with a reverential following at Halifax’s St. Mary’s Basilica, where it performs, Sanctuary offers a mixed blessing on... READMORE |
 The Ramones - End of the Century2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 The Ramones were the Rodney Dangerfields of punk, misanthropes in leather who got no respect. This first-rate DVD documentary leaves no doubt... READMORE |
 The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Origin Vol. 12005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Led by bearded, tunic-sporting, garage-rock guru Ebbot Lundberg, Soundtrack is the granddaddy of the Swedish underground invasion. The band’s last album, Behind... READMORE |
 Blind Boys of Alabama - Atom Bomb2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Along with the Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, the Blind Boys are the coolest septuagenarians on the planet. The gospel veterans’ latest... READMORE |
 Athlete - Tourist2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Athlete caused a stir with its debut album, 2003’s Vehicles & Animals. While the album enjoyed commercial success and won a Mercury... READMORE |
 Moby - Hotel2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Moby = multi-tasker. The man born Richard Melville Hall (distant relative of Moby Dick author Herman Melville) has made a career as... READMORE |
 Nirvana - Nevermind2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 This installment in the Classic Albums DVD series features Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic looking back on Nirvana’s breakthrough record that Grohl... READMORE |
 Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Full of sticky themes and thick power chords, the stoner band’s fourth outing is a mixed bag, as Josh Homme and his... READMORE |
 Beck - Guero2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Now married (to actress Marissa Ribisi) and with his first child, Beck sounds suitably grown up on his eclectic eighth album. There’s... READMORE |
 Jann Arden - Jann Arden2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Canada’s queen of unvarnished emotion, Arden generally writes sad, weighty songs—in sharp contrast to her wry, offstage wit. While there’s still plenty... READMORE |
 P:ano - Brigadoon2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 This Vancouver chamber pop quartet favors tiny perfect ditties that mix influences ranging from The Beach Boys to Yo La Tengo. Vocal... READMORE |
 Lisa Marie Presley - Now What2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Elvis’ only child didn’t release her debut until she was 35—after having survived drugs, Scientology and two children from three marriages. Still,... READMORE |
 Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Whether singing tender songs of vulnerability like “Far Away” or tearing the roof off with such raging confessionals as “Ball & Chain,”... READMORE |
 Kyle Riabko - Before I Speak2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 This teenager is proof that some air guitarists become the real thing. From his Saskatoon bedroom to U.S. ballrooms, opening for the... READMORE |
 Daisy DeBolt - Lovers & Fantasies2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 An unsung heroine of Canadian music, DeBolt is a one-of-a-kind artist who has never shied from creative risks. From her folk duo... READMORE |
 Paul Anka - Rock Swings2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Sid Vicious once butchered Anka’s “My Way.” Now, Canada’s original crooner—godfather to Michael Bublé and Matt Dusk—swings back at the rock repertoire.... READMORE |
 A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hands Resign2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 As a blue-collar burg, Hamilton, Ont. is best known for hard rock and boogie bands. A Northern Chorus could bring Steeltown a... READMORE |
 Blue Rodeo - Are You Ready2005 | Administrator | Thursday, 13 August 2009 Twenty years. Ten albums. Blue Rodeo’s recordings are as constant—and comforting—as the changing seasons. The group’s latest marks a return to its... READMORE |
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Reviews
 Pink - The Album Collection2011 | Administrator | Wednesday, 6 April 2011 The life of Alecia Moore—better known as P!nk—is worthy of a movie. Born in the Philadelphia suburbs to a Vietnam-veteran father and a nurse mother, she became a tough teen... |
 Madonna - MDNA2012 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 April 2012 Any one of the 108 million people who tuned into this year’s Super Bowl knew that Madonna’s next album was going to be a big deal. The Queen of Pop... |
 Rihanna - Talk That Talk2011 | Administrator | Monday, 5 December 2011 Lady Gaga is audacious and Britney Spears is troubled, but Rihanna is unquestionably pop’s naughty girl, a church-raised singer who didn’t hesitate to call her third CD Good Girl Gone... |
 Holly Cole - Night2012 | Administrator | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 Cole has won fans the world over with her jazz-tinged takes on pop hits. Here she delivers a dreamy, piano-laced rendition of Gordon Lightfoot’s classic “If You Could Read My... |
Features
 The Midway State - From Riches to Rags and Back Again2011 | Administrator | Wednesday, 31 August 2011 Nathan Ferraro doesn’t seem the least bit bitter—which is surprising, given everything he’s been through. In fact, the affable, afro-haired frontman exudes all the serenity of a Buddhist monk, as he sits in a Toronto café... |
 The Messengers2013 | Administrator | Wednesday, 13 March 2013 For Adam Messinger and Nasri Atweh, success has come from having the right songs at the right time. Within a month of relocating to Los Angeles from Toronto in 2007, the songwriting-producing duo known as... |
 Alex Cuba - A Magical Musical Blend2012 | Administrator | Monday, 21 March 2011 With his oversized Afro and razored sideburns, Alex Cuba cuts a cool figure, a cross between ’70s soul man and stylish rocker. It’s a look that has been attracting attention ever since the musician, born... |
Alex Cuba - A Magical Musical Blend2011 | Administrator | Monday, 21 March 2011 With his oversized Afro and razored sideburns, Alex Cuba cuts a cool figure, a cross between ’70s soul man and stylish rocker. It’s a look that has been attracting attention ever since the musician, born... |