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2008
 Ray Davies - Working Man’s Café2008 | Administrator | Friday, 28 August 2009 Since the dissolution of The Kinks, the satirical bard of English pop culture has kept busy writing books, making films and staging... READMORE |
 The Raveonettes - Lust, Lust, Lust2008 | Administrator | Friday, 28 August 2009 Denmark’s royal couple of retro-pop returns with their sinfully twisted take on Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound. Dispensing with novelty (their first... READMORE |
 The B-52s - Funplex2008 | Administrator | Friday, 28 August 2009 The group bills itself as “the World’s Greatest Party Band.” And, true, The B-52s brought beehive hairdos, space-age riffs and Fellini-esque humor... READMORE |
 Kathleen Edwards - Asking for Flowers2008 | Administrator | Friday, 28 August 2009 Edwards’ songs are compelling, character-rich short stories—think of her as the Alice Munro of Canadian pop. Previously, Edwards has crafted gritty police... READMORE |
 Matthew Barber - Ghost Notes2008 | Administrator | Friday, 28 August 2009 Nothing like a little sibling rivalry to get the creative juices flowing. Barber’s younger sister Jill has been kicking his ass lately,... READMORE |
 The Black Keys - Attack & Release2008 | Administrator | Friday, 2 October 2009 Like the White Stripes, the Black Keys is a minimalist blues-rock duo. But where the Stripes went mainstream, the Keys have remained... READMORE |
 Moby - Last Night2008 | Administrator | Friday, 2 October 2009 The tiny, bald vegan one is feeling nostalgic these days, returning to the DJ-ing ways of his misspent youth in New Youth’s... READMORE |
 The Breeders - Mountain Battles2008 | Administrator | Friday, 2 October 2009 Twin sisters Kim and Kelley Deal are back with more of the jagged edges and bruised beauty that made alt-rock classics out... READMORE |
 Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 The next big thing out of Toronto might be this trio of high-school indie rockers: singer-guitarist Luke LaLonde, bassist Mitch DeRosier and... READMORE |
 Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Fans of The New Pornographers know that Destroyer’s Dan Bejar writes some of the quirkiest of the Pornos’ catchy songs. Bejar’s work... READMORE |
 DeVotchKa - A Mad and Faithful Telling2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 World music has reached indie-rock shores—check out the rise of bands like Vampire Weekend and Gogol Bordello, which draw on African and... READMORE |
 Pacifika - Asunción2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 More proof of the world music’s appeal can be found in Canada’s Pacifika, a trio featuring Peruvian-born singer Silvana Kane, formerly of... READMORE |
 Justin Townes Earle - The Good Life2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 This young country crooner’s name carries a double curse: the son of Nashville rebel and hardcore troubadour Steve Earle is also named... READMORE |
 Bryan Adams - 112008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 With his charitable projects and photography career, it’s a wonder Adams has any time for making music at all these days. Which... READMORE |
 Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 This is African music at its finest. Like Cuba’s Buena Vista Social Club, Senegal’s Baobab is a veteran outfit whose sublime sound—soaring... READMORE |
 R.E.M. - Accelerate2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 “We didn’t talk to each other for a couple of records—as friends or as bandmates,” admits Michael Stipe. Clearly, Stipe, Peter Buck... READMORE |
 Various artists - In the Name of Love: Africa Celebrates U22008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 African musicians performing to raise money in the fight against AIDS while paying tribute to U2 is a clever idea. Not only... READMORE |
 The Coast - Expatriate2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 It’s easy for indie bands to get stuck in a shoe-gazing rut. The Coast’s dreamy 2006 EP drew comparisons to Britpop faves... READMORE |
 Foals - Antidotes2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Frontman Yannis Philippakis’ previous band was called the Edmund Fitzgerald, but there’s nothing Lightfootish about Foals, a smart-rock outfit from Oxford, England,... READMORE |
 Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 With their taste for musical mashups and penchant for pop-culture, it’s no wonder that Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse have named their new... READMORE |
 Clinic - Do It!2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Like Gnarls Barkley, Clinic likes to wrap itself in mystery: the members of this Liverpool quartet favor Beatlesque costumes while covering their... READMORE |
 The Kooks - Konk2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Recorded at the Kinks’ Konk Studio, the Kooks’ second album has shades of Ray Davies wit on “Mr. Maker,” a sunny afternoon... READMORE |
 Billy Bragg - Mr. Love and Justice2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 It’s a fitting title, since Bragg has always mixed romance with politics. Bragg has never shied from wearing his left-wing sympathies on... READMORE |
 Constantines - Kensington Heights2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 The spirit of Neil Young is never far from these indie-rock heroes, who cover Young in their Horsey Craze side project. The... READMORE |
 Supergrass - Diamond Hoo Ha2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Britpop veterans Supergrass (remember “Alright” and Gaz Coombes’ impossibly long sideburns?) were synonymous with the Cool Britannia movement of the 1990s. The... READMORE |
 Jeff Healey - Mess of Blues2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 When Healey died last month of cancer, the music world lost a distinctive guitarist who bridged the fields of rock, blues and... READMORE |
 Heloise and the Savoir Faire - Trash, Rats and Microphones2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 The playful debut by this New York electro-rock outfit has much going for it, including guest vocals by fan Debbie Harry, of... READMORE |
 Sam Roberts - Love at the End of the World2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 The latest from Roberts and his bearded bandmates is chock full of anxious anthems for our edgy times, from the uneasy “Stripmall... READMORE |
 Islands - Arm’s Way2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 Montreal’s Islands wowed the indie world with its eccentric debut, Return to the Sea. The band’s followup is equally wacky, but far... READMORE |
 Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head2008 | Administrator | Saturday, 3 October 2009 ScarJo isn’t the first woman to tackle Tom Waits. Canada’s Holly Cole and Switzerland’s Claudia Bettinaglio have both recorded tributes to the... READMORE |
 Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 The last album by Franti and his band, Yell Fire, was deliciously subversive—politically charged reggae sweetened by melodic hooks and bubbly rhythms.... READMORE |
 Tricky - Knowle West Boy2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Transcending his 1995 breakthrough Maxinquaye, which helped to define trip-hop, has been, an, um, tricky proposition. But the man born Adrian Thaws... READMORE |
 Mother Mother - O My Heart2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 There’s nothing more annoying than a band, bereft of originality, that’s in love with its own sound. Mother Mother fancies itself indie-rock... READMORE |
 XX Teens - Welcome to Goon Island2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Not a porn act, but five British art students run amok. XX Teens brings a refreshing irreverence and political savvy to the... READMORE |
 Usher - Here I Stand2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Usher’s the ultimate smoothie, a former teen heartthrob who became a pop-soul star by keeping everyone wondering: is he sinner or saint?... READMORE |
 The New Odds - Cheerleader2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 During the 1990s, they were the Odds, a talented power-pop outfit from Vancouver blessed with hooks ’n’ humor (several videos for its... READMORE |
 Al Green - Lay it Down2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Al Green, Baptist preacher and music legend, is a true savior. I once witnessed him bring a New Orleans festival audience to... READMORE |
 My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 These revered Kentucky rockers have never rested on their Americana laurels and stuck to the jingle-jangle of alternative country. Like Wilco, MMJ... READMORE |
 Gonzales - Soft Power2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Best known as Feist’s friend and producer, Gonzales is a talented MC and pianist whose time as a solo artist may be... READMORE |
 Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married, But I’ve Got Feelings Too2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Happily, marriage hasn’t mellowed dear Martha, who burst onto the scene with her biting ode to her dad, “Blood Mother F***ing Asshole.”... READMORE |
 Priscilla Ahn - A Good Day2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 With her pristine voice and elegant songs, Ahn is a refreshing antidote to brash ladettes like Adele and Kate Nash. Allowing the... READMORE |
 Ivana Santilli - TO.NY.2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Santilli’s been riding her funkmobile to the soul shack ever since her formative days with Toronto’s Bass is Base. The singer-keyboardist deepened... READMORE |
 Alanis Morissette - Flavors of Entanglement2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 When it comes to venting, no one beats Morissette. “She has this super-massive, planet-eating emotional range,” says her producer Guy Sigsworth (Bjork,... READMORE |
 Wolf Parade - Kissing the Beehive2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Recorded in the Montreal church owned by Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade’s sophomore release finds the shaggy quartet worshipping at the altar of... READMORE |
 Coldplay - Viva la Vida...or Death and All His Friends2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 For their fourth studio album, Chris Martin and company enlist the producers of their two favorite bands: U2’s Brian Eno and Arcade... READMORE |
 Amos Lee - Last Days at the Lodge2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Norah Jones discovered him and it seemed that Lee would be groomed as a male version of the laid-back chanteuse. But the... READMORE |
 Great Big Sea - Fortune’s Favour2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Great Big Sea albums are sometimes more rock than folk, but they’re always deeply Celtic. With Hawksley Workman at the production helm,... READMORE |
 Ron Sexsmith - Exit Strategy of the Soul2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Rich in melodic and lyrical charms, Sexsmith songs have attracted interpreters in pop, Celtic and classical music. With this collection, the understated... READMORE |
 Divine Brown - The Love Chronicles2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Her soulful “Old Skool Love” paved the way for Jully Black’s “Seven Day Fool.” Now, with her eclectic sophomore album, Brown is... READMORE |
 Delta Spirit - Ode to Sunshine2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 The gospel according to Delta Spirit is drawn from the scriptures of Woody Guthrie and Kurt Cobain. The San Diego band mixes... READMORE |
 Brian Wilson - That Lucky Old Sun2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 It’s something of a miracle that the chief Beach Boy is still capable of making music. Few expected the manic depressive genius... READMORE |
 Various artists - Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul & Calypso Crossover 1969-19792008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Crate-digging DJs searching for rare soul and funk breaks will devour this tasty compilation of tropical grooves. For everyone else, it’s an... READMORE |
 Giant Sand - proVISIONS2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 The brainchild of Howie Gelb, Arizona’s Giant Sand has released roughly 20 albums in as many years. The desert-rock indie collective, which... READMORE |
 Jarvis Church - The Long Way Home2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 He’s a man of many personas, including Gerald Eaton, vocalist for r&b favorites the Philosopher Kings, and half of Track & Field,... READMORE |
 Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 He is Canada’s most unassuming indie-rock hero. A painter and animator, Calgary’s VanGaalen was surprised when he was signed to the legendary... READMORE |
 Jolie Holland - The Living and the Dead2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Holland has made some haunting solo albums, including 2004’s Escondida, which set her gothic teardrop songs to Appalachian blues and old-time jazz.... READMORE |
 Fembots - Calling Out2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Toronto’s Fembots have come a long way from the duo’s tool-shed and junkyard origins. Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier launched the post-industrial... READMORE |
 Terry Lynn - Kingstonlogic 2.02008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 Legendary Jamaican producer Coxsone Dodd calls her “the true voice of the street.” Her view of life in Kingston’s Waterhouse ghetto where... READMORE |
 Ani DiFranco - Red Letter Year2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 “I build each one of my songs out of glass,” DiFranco once sang, “so you can see me inside them.” The Buffalo... READMORE |
 Shawn Hewitt - Spare Hearts2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 25 October 2009 He’s been described as a cross between Stevie Wonder and Radiohead and there are hints of both here. But Hewitt is a... READMORE |
 Mobile - Tales from the City2008 | Administrator | Friday, 30 October 2009 Like Simple Plan, Montreal’s Mobile are francophone rockers who found an audience outside Quebec with their English songs. And like the juvenile... READMORE |
 Jill Barber - Chances2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 She calls herself a “smoky folkie.” But Barber’s latest CD increases the smoky quotient while jettisoning the folk sound of her previous... READMORE |
 Keane - Perfect Symmetry2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Once tagged as Coldplay’s little brothers, Keane have grown into masters of their own emotive-pop sound. Pianist Tim Rice-Oxley’s songs have evolved... READMORE |
 Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Grain2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 LaMontagne has been a mostly word-of-mouth phenomenon, due to the low-key nature of his music and his own notorious shyness. That may... READMORE |
 Lucinda Williams - Little Honey2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 The Lake Charles, Louisiana native is a major force in alt-country, with two formidable assets in her arsenal: an aching drawl of... READMORE |
 AC/DC - Black Ice2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 With song titles like “Rock & Roll Train,” “She Likes Rock & Roll,” “Rock & Roll Dream” and “Rocking All the Way,”... READMORE |
 The Dears - Missiles2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 This Montreal indie band defined itself sonically with its 2002 EP, Orchestral Pop Noir Romantique, a brooding symphonic sound that won the... READMORE |
 John Legend - Evolver2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Unlike many young r&b singers, Legend has schooled himself in the traditions of gospel and Stevie, Marvin and Aretha-style soul. Still, the... READMORE |
 Little Jackie - The Stoop2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 A duo comprised of singer Imani Coppola and programmer Adam Pallin, Little Jackie is America’s answer to Lily Allen. Coppola makes fun... READMORE |
 Serena Ryder - Is it OK2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Canada’s Serena Ryder and actress Ellen Page have much in common, besides their physical resemblance: both are highly talented, in their 20s... READMORE |
 Various artists - Best of Bond2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 The new Quantum of Silence theme by Alicia Keys and Jack White is noticeably absent, but this timely compilation features every other... READMORE |
 Jason Wilson - The Peacemaker’s Chauffeur2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 This singer-keyboardist has been hailed as a reggae ambassador, opening doors with his band Tabarruk and tributes to his hero Jackie Mittoo... READMORE |
 Roxanne Potvin - No Love for the Poisonous2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 When Colin Linden produced Potvin’s second album, he quickly united her with Daniel Lanois. “You’re both from Hull, you both speak French,... READMORE |
 Eagles of Death Metal - Heart On2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Not death metal but, according to band member and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, “bluegrass slide guitar mixed with... READMORE |
 Suzie McNeil - Rock-n-Roller2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 McNeil is all about rock. She was the last woman standing on Rock Star: INXS and landed a starring role in the... READMORE |
 Mavis Staples - Live: Hope at the Hideout2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Coming off last year’s acclaimed We’ll Never Turn Back, a powerful collection of civil rights anthems produced by Ry Cooder, Staples is... READMORE |
 Travis - Ode to J. Smith2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Deadlines can be lifelines. Faced with the prospect of bassist Dougie Payne becoming a first-time father, Travis wrote and recorded 11 songs... READMORE |
 The Waking Eyes - Holding On to Whatever It Is2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 This band’s last CD, 2004’s Video Sound, was rich in Beatlesque melodies and Stooges-style riffs. In other words, the Winnipeg youngsters did... READMORE |
 Tracy Chapman - One Bright Future2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 It’s been 20 years since Chapman shocked the world with the stark realism of her hit “Fast Car,” as powerful in its... READMORE |
 The Smiths - The Sound of the Smiths2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 The long-hoped for reunion of England’s seminal mope-poppers remains unlikely, but this package should give Smiths obsessives a much-needed fix. Featuring all... READMORE |
 Ian Tyson - Yellowhead to Yellowstone and other Love Stories2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 His voice, once as well-worn as a warm saddle, is now as craggy as his beloved Alberta foothills. But Tyson, the grand... READMORE |
 Amadou & Mariam - Welcome to Mali2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Mali’s blind husband-and-wife duo is a true phenomenon. Their first album, produced by Manu Chao, sold more than half a million copies... READMORE |
 Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 There’s a scene in the movie High Fidelity where record store clerk Dick (Todd Louiso) is ridiculed by musical fascist Barry (Jack... READMORE |
 Parliament Funkadelic - The Mothership Connection Live 19762008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 Nothing rivals the zany theatrics and extravagant stagecraft of the cosmic tribe known simply as P-Funk. Led by George Clinton, the sprawling... READMORE |
 Tom Jones - 24 Hours2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 His career took off in the mid-1960s, when the former Welsh bricklayer began belting out songs dressed in tight breeches and billowy... READMORE |
 Neil Young - Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 19682008 | Administrator | Sunday, 1 November 2009 The latest CD-DVD in Young’s Archives series comes from a November appearance at a Michigan coffeehouse just five days shy of his... READMORE |
 Land of Talk - Some are Lakes2008 | Administrator | Monday, 2 November 2009 Fronted by the electrifying Liz Powell, rightly dubbed an “indie-rock guitar goddess-in-waiting,” Land of Talk will soon have everyone talking. The Montreal... READMORE |
 Rachael Yamagata - Elephants…Teeth Sinking Into Heart2008 | Administrator | Monday, 2 November 2009 With her sometimes husky, sometimes whispery alto and evocative piano style, Yamagata made an impressive debut with 2004’s Happenstance. For her sophomore... READMORE |
 El Guincho - Alegranza!2008 | Administrator | Monday, 2 November 2009 Like Julio Iglesias, Pablo Diaz-Reixa was a promising Spanish soccer player before music knocked him off the ball. Now, as El Guincho,... READMORE |
 I’m from Barcelona - Who Killed Harry Houdini?2008 | Administrator | Monday, 2 November 2009 Named after Manuel from Fawlty Towers, this quirky Swedish band has grown in popularity since last year’s Let Me Introduce My Friends.... READMORE |
 Kaiser Chiefs - Off with Their Heads2008 | Administrator | Monday, 2 November 2009 Expect more pandemonium from the lads from Leeds, who accurately predicted a riot with their debut album, which spawned four hit singles... READMORE |
 Sex Pistols - There Will Always Be an England2008 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 This Julien Temple DVD of a recent Pistols’ performance at the Brixton Academy features fat, middle-aged punk fans screaming and brandishing their... READMORE |
 Bloc Party - Intimacy2008 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 With the focus on gods in songs like “Ares,” “Mercury” and “Zephyrus,” you’d think that Bloc Party’s latest was steeped in Greek... READMORE |
 Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns2008 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 Like Keane, Snow Patrol has endured Coldplay comparisons due to the Irish rockers’ shamelessly emotive style. But singer Gary Lightbody and his... READMORE |
 Burton Cummings - Above the Ground2008 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 November 2009 He’s got a concert hall and an arena named after him. There’s even a hockey team whose jerseys bear his famous mug.... READMORE |
 Buffy Sainte-Marie - Running for the Drum2008 | Administrator | Thursday, 5 November 2009 The Canadian-born native icon made her mark in the hippie era with protest anthems and love songs. Now 66, Sainte-Marie shows no... READMORE |
 Various artists - Sgt. Pepper’s Revisited2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 It represents the pinnacle of pop achievement, so it’s no wonder that Sgt. Pepper’s has inspired several tribute albums. The latest, produced... READMORE |
 Marah - Angels of Destruction2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 These American rockers have been embraced by Bruce Springsteen and immortalized in High Fidelity by British author Nick Hornby, who named the... READMORE |
 Liam Finn - I’ll Be Lightning2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 His father is Crowded House frontman Neil Finn, a gifted songsmith who has given the world some of its most exquisite pop... READMORE |
 Joe Jackson - Rain2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 Although he’s long been eclipsed by Elvis Costello, England’s other “angry young man of the new wave era,” Jackson remains a compelling... READMORE |
 Protest the Hero - Fortress2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 Somewhere, a sociology student is writing a thesis on why Toronto’s 905 district produces such a plethora of punk, thrash and screamo... READMORE |
 The Blind Boys of Alabama - Down in New Orleans2008 | Administrator | Sunday, 27 December 2009 The Blind Boys boast a great comeback story. Formed in 1939, the gospel group was discovered by a new generation in the... READMORE |
Reviews
 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant2011 | Administrator | Tuesday, 26 July 2011 Originally issued in 1986, the fourth album by R.E.M. proved a turning point for the college-rock heroes from Athens, Georgia. Producer Don Gehman (John Mellencamp) coaxed vocalist Michael Stipe to... |
 Feist - Metals2011 | Administrator | Saturday, 1 October 2011 Feist’s transformation from indie-pop darling to household name was as simple as “1234.” The song became a runaway hit after being featured in a commercial for Apple’s iPod Nano. Its... |
 Various artists - Best of Bond…James Bond2012 | Administrator | Saturday, 27 October 2012 Nobody does Bond better than Shirley Bassey. This collection, celebrating 50 years of 007 movies, features Dame Shirley belting out three of the franchise’s favorite themes. Other highlights include Madonna’s... |
 Aerosmith - Music from Another Dimension2012 | Administrator | Wednesday, 21 November 2012 Surviving feuds, near-breakups and health crises, America’s rock veterans return with their first album of original material in 11 years. Steven Tyler and Joe Perry recreate their classic sound on... |
Features
 Great Lake Swimmers' new energy2012 | Administrator | Sunday, 3 June 2012 For Tony Dekker, recording—like real estate—is all about location. The Great Lake Swimmers frontman has made a habit of working in unusual settings, beginning with his Toronto-based group’s 2003 self-titled debut, which was recorded in an... |
 Passing the Torch2012 | Nicholas Jennings | Sunday, 9 September 2012 When Dustin Bentall was 12, he spent the summer with his parents at a cabin they bought in Cariboo Country, in British Columbia’s interior. There his father, veteran Canadian musician Barney Bentall, taught him the guitar... |
 The Midway State - From Riches to Rags and Back Again2012 | 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... |
 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... |