Jim Cuddy Announces New Solo Album and Coast to Coast Canadian Tour
Shawn Desman Announces Headlining Show at Toronto’s HISTORY
Mother Mother Announces Cross Canada Tour
The Muffins’ Martha Johnson Sets The Pace For World Parkinson’s Month With ‘Slow Emotion’

CD Review: CITY AND COLOUR: If I Should Go Before You

Keith Sharp
CD Review: CITY AND COLOUR: If I Should Go Before You
CITY AND COLOUR If I Should Go Before You (Dine Alone Records) When Dallas Green accepted his SOCAN award this May at Toronto’s Harbour Castle Convention Centre, he thanked everyone who had supported him and then he thanked everyone who didn’t support him, admitting that his music is “an acquired taste” Maybe so, but enough people have acquired that taste... Read More

Poor Young Things: New Kids On The Block

Keith Sharp
Poor Young Things: New Kids On The Block
By Keith Sharp When Thunder Bay’s Poor Young Things head out on a national club tour October 14th in partnership with Glorious Sons and Northcote, they’ll be taking an important step towards establishing themselves as a prime contender in the current new wave of Canadian rock that is now sweeping the country. Buoyed by the release of a new six-track... Read More

Men Without Hats: Strike Off The Bucket List

Keith Sharp
Men Without Hats: Strike Off The Bucket List
By Keith Sharp All Ivan Doroschuk had to do was gaze out at the 16,000 fans assembled in an Ancaster, Ontario field in late August for the Festival of Friends event to justify the comeback of his Men without Hats group. Joining forces with English prog rockers, Psychedelic Furs and fellow Montrealers, The Box, Doroschuk and fellow band members Lou... Read More

Live Blu-Ray DVD sparks Vannelli Rebirth

Keith Sharp
Live Blu-Ray DVD sparks Vannelli Rebirth
Live Blu-Ray DVD sparks Vannelli Rebirth By Keith Sharp Generally, it didn’t pay to mess with Clive Davis. Following a successful six-album stint with Herb Alpert’s A&M Records, Montreal’s Gino Vannelli appeared to be on the verge of super stardom when he signed for Davis’s fledgling Arista Records in 1980. During his tenure as head of Columbia Records, Davis was... Read More

ARCADE FIRE. Announce Digital Release Of “Reflektor” Deluxe Edition September 25

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ARCADE FIRE. Announce Digital Release Of “Reflektor” Deluxe Edition September 25
(TORONTO, ON – September 21, 2015) – In conjunction with the September 23 theatrical release of their feature film “The Reflektor Tapes”, Arcade Fire has confirmed the September 25 digital release of a deluxe edition of the band’s critically acclaimed, international #1 double album Reflektor. The Reflektor Deluxe Edition features another LP side’s worth of material not included on the... Read More

THE SHEEPDOGS TALK MUSIC…AND “FUTURE NOSTALGIA”

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THE SHEEPDOGS TALK MUSIC…AND “FUTURE NOSTALGIA”
 Canada’s beloved, The Sheepdogs, are at it again, shaping up to release their fifth studio album, “Future Nostalgia” on Oct. 2, 2015. Now officially a 5-member band, multi-instrumentalist, Shamus Currie, who has toured with the band since 2012, also appears on the album playing keys, trombone, and tambourine. The boys are currently on a North American/European tour in support of... Read More

BLUE RODEO TO RELEASE LIVE AT MASSEY HALL ON OCTOBER 16, 2015

Keith Sharp
BLUE RODEO TO RELEASE LIVE AT MASSEY HALL ON OCTOBER 16, 2015
Release of new live album marks the beginning of a flurry of Fall releases from Canada’s favourite band Blue Rodeo is officially announcing the Friday, October 16, 2015 release of their new album Live At Massey Hall.  The 14-track collection was culled recorded during the band’s sold-out two-night stand at Toronto’s venerable concert hall during their 2014 In Our Nature Tour... Read More

THE TEA PARTY – Live in Hamilton

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THE TEA PARTY – Live in Hamilton
Stuart Chatwood, Jeff Burrows and Jeff Martin at Hamilton Place Hamilton Ever since issuing their latest `Ocean At The End’ release in September 2014, The Tea Party have been touring relentlessly and with each gig, guitarist/vocalist Jeff Martin, multi-percussionist Jeff Burrows and bassist/multi-instrumentalist Stuart Chatwood continue to prove what an amazingly tight trio they really are. It’s not surprising that... Read More

BRETT KISSEL

Keith Sharp
BRETT KISSEL
Pick Me Up (Warner Music Canada) What you have to love about Brett Kissel’s lyrics is their honesty. He sings about the simple things of life, his love of his mother, the fun he has playing with his guitars, simplistic love songs about the challenges of relationships, all delivered with a clean and clear vocal delivery and some tasty, mid-tempo... Read More

2015 Canadian Country Music Association Winners

Roman Mitz
2015 Canadian Country Music Association Winners
 Jess Moskaluke Well, the 2015 CCMA’s are in the books and it was certainly a night of pomp and circumstance at the Scotiabank Centre in Halifax. The show rivalled the Toronto International Film Festival in terms of fashion statements but, fittingly, the stars strolled down the John Deere Green Carpet as opposed to the traditional red carpet. Calgary’s Gord Bamford... Read More

THE SHEEPDOGS

Keith Sharp
THE SHEEPDOGS
  (Dine Alone Records) The Sheepdogs’ Southern-Fried Rock styling may be a throw-back to the vintage sounds of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and the Allman Brothers yet there is no doubt that their previous two records have sparked a new live-rock renaissance that has also been picked up by the likes of Hamilton’s Monster Truck, Kelowna’s Wild!, or even fledgling... Read More