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Reviewing literally thousands of recordings and interviewing and profiling many of the world’s leading artists, from Oscar Peterson, Paul Simon, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney to Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Diana Krall and Shania Twain, Nicholas Jennings has written on music for The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail and, from 1992 to 1998, contributed the “Global Grooves” column to Toronto’s eye weekly.
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 Macy Gray - Covered2012 | Administrator | Tuesday, 3 April 2012 Wonderfully eccentric, Gray would never release a predictable album of cover songs. Here, the six-foot-tall singer puts her inimitable spin on indie rock songs by Radiohead, Arcade Fire and others—all... |
 Jill Scott - The Light of the Sun2011 | Administrator | Sunday, 10 July 2011 Much has happened to this Grammy-winning soul singer and poet recently: she gave birth to her first child and then broke up with the boy’s father, who was the drummer... |
 Céline Dion - The Essential Céline Dion2011 | Administrator | Saturday, 1 October 2011 Céline Dion ranks as the best-selling female artist of all time, with worldwide sales of over 200 million albums. At this point, it’s hard to imagine a household without at... |
 Jimmy Cliff - Rebirth2012 | Administrator | Wednesday, 8 August 2012 Second only to Bob Marley in reggae popularity, Cliff’s legend was secured by his starring role in the movie The Harder They Come. His latest album, produced by Rancid’s Tim... |
 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... |
 k.d. lang - Canadian Music Hall of Fame Inductee2013 | Administrator | Monday, 22 April 2013 She arrived like a chinook in the dead of winter. When k.d. lang first blew out of Alberta in the mid-1980s, her look, personality and voice seemed to be exactly what everyone was hankering for: theatricality,... |
 The Sadies2013 | Administrator | Wednesday, 5 June 2013 Dallas and Travis Good have worked with Neil Young, author Margaret Atwood, Randy Bachman, Buffy Sainte-Marie and actor Gordon Pinsent. But it was another Canadian icon—one with whom they’ve yet to collaborate—who offered some crucial wisdom.... |
 Hey Rosetta! - Literary songwriting worth yelling about2012 | Administrator | Sunday, 4 March 2012 Tim Baker has a problem. As frontman for Newfoundland’s Hey Rosetta!, one of Canada’s fastest-rising, hardest-working bands, he is touring for nine months of the year, performing concerts on three continents. Trouble is, Baker is also... |
