BILLY TALENT “LIVE AT FESTHALLE FRANKFURT” OUT NOW

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 Music Express

Billy Talent return with Live at Festhalle Frankfurt, their first live album since 2007’s 666. The new album, produced by Juno Award nominee for Producer of the Year Ian D’sa and mixed by Juno Award winner Eric Ratz, sees the band perform 21 career spanning hits and was recorded this past November at the iconic German venue in front of a sold-out crowd. The... Read More

Pemberton: The Ultimate Festival Experience

July 8, 2015July 10, 2015 Keith Sharp

July Talk So what’s a good ole boy from Mobile Alabama doing running one of Canada’s largest and most scenic music concert festivals? Glad you asked! Organizer of the highly successful Hang Out Beach Festival staged at Gulf Shores, Alabama, the Tortuga Beach y Music Festival staged at Fort Lauderdale, and the Baku, EDM, indie festival in New Orleans, (which... Read More

BILLY TALENT Hits

November 3, 2014November 3, 2014 Keith Sharp

(Warner Music Canada) After a career stretching four studio albums and 11 years, Toronto’s Billy Talent have reached a career milestone with the release of a 14-track `Hits’ best –of release which also contains two new tracks, the incendiary “Kingdom Of Zod” and the melodic “Chasing the Sun”. Sparked by Benjamin Kowalewicz’s distinctive vocals, Ian D’Sa’s fiery guitar work and... Read More

Sum 41 Shred Calgary

April 3, 2013April 3, 2013 Music Express

It was love at first power chord for the boys in Sum 41 and their rabid fans on this Wednesday night. Front man Deryck Whibley addressed the admiring throng as if trying to stir them into a froth. “Come on motherf—ers” was the battle cry. And they did come on. To every song. Although fully popular enough to headline the... Read More

Billy Talent Attacks Calgary

March 25, 2013March 25, 2013 Music Express

Through a rent in the curtain and bathed in light, Billy Talent appeared to a roar of adoration. Lead singer Ben Kowalewicz and his crack band ripped into a powerful set that had the audience of mostly twenty somethings on their feet and bellowing along to every song. Bellow as they might, they could only barely be heard above a... Read More

No Rest For The Wicked – Sum 41

March 22, 2013April 2, 2013 Music Express

It’s been a whirlwind couple of years for Deryck Whibley and his bandmates in the Canadian alternative rock band Sum 41. The quartet has been on tour for more than two years, following the release of their 2011 studio album, Screaming Bloody Murder. It’s a trek that has seen them criss-cross the globe many times and which wraps up with... Read More

Billy Talent – D’sa Takes Control

October 24, 2012October 25, 2012 Music Express

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

Billy Talent – Dead Silence

October 17, 2012December 14, 2012 Keith Sharp

(Warner Music) Yes, it’s finally here, after months of speculation, and the album actually boasts a title, other than Billy Talent ! Guitarist Ian D’Sa takes control of production and maintains the band’s punk rock drive while building on the band’s melodic lyrical flair. Yes you can call them Green Day lite, yet Billy Talent’s unpretentious rawness and powerful live... Read More

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