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Luring A Lobster Into A Boxed Set! – Great Big Sea

Luring A Lobster Into A Boxed Set! – Great Big Sea
Great Big Sea’s Alan Doyle, Bob Hallett and yours truly are deep in discussion on the cuisine values of seaweed. This heated debate triggered by my observation that the only items left out of the band’s mega 20th anniversary XX boxed set comprising of two CD’s of their greatest pop hits and traditional folk songs, a CD of outtakes and... Read More

Colin James – Too Much of a Good Thing

Colin James – Too Much of a Good Thing
Every night during his current national tour, Colin James faces a major dilemma. What to include or exclude from that concert’s set list. With a brand new album, `Fifteen’ chock full of hot new tracks plus three stunning covers, James simply doesn’t have time during his 21-song performance to acknowledge his catalogue while accommodating the new material. Reached during a... Read More

Billy Talent – D’sa Takes Control

Billy Talent – D’sa Takes Control
After almost 20 years together — the first eight as the underground indie band Pezz — multi-platinum rock band Billy Talent lead guitarist Ian D’sa take charge as producer of their new album, Dead Silence. He hadn’t done that since he produced a four-track cassette of Pezz 19 years ago. He was always interested in producing a proper album for... Read More

Loverboy Launches Rock N Roll Revival

Loverboy Launches Rock N Roll Revival
Loverboy is touring right through until December behind its latest album, Rock ‘N’ Roll Revival, and what’s truly a revival is that the legendary Vancouver rock act is on the road with Journey — for the first time in three decades. The two bands linked up this summer for more than 60 dates all over North America, including some upcoming... Read More

Klaatu – Calling Occupants!

Klaatu – Calling Occupants!
As the first issue of Alberta Music Express was about to roll off the presses in October 1976, an album arrived on my desk, displaying a garish Sun face. The album entitled “3:47 E.S.T” was released by a band called Klaatu. A furtive search of the album cover and LP credits revealed nothing about the band. No group photo, no... Read More

Four Dudes & A Lady

Four Dudes & A Lady
So who is the good looking singer firing up her sparklers in the country music video for ‘A Little More Work’? That would be Kira Isabella, the bubbly brunette who is presently burning up the country charts with the single from her recently released debut album ‘Love Me Like That’. Isabella has a decade of experience under her belt performing... Read More

Steve DeMarchi and Freddy Curci

Steve DeMarchi and Freddy Curci
Steve DeMarchi was at home one day recently when he received a phone call from an Indonesian radio station. A deejay there informed him a track, `More Than Words Can Say” by his former band, Alias was top of the Indonesian charts and could he comment on the song’s success. “I had to tell him that song was originally recorded... Read More