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Nelly Furtado in Toronto

Nelly Furtado in Toronto
January 24, 2013, Sony Centre For The Performing Arts, Toronto Outside, it was an extraordinarily cold Toronto evening but when Nelly Furtado took the stage at Toronto’s Sony Centre For Performing Arts, any thought of frozen fingers and features melted away. The soft-seater wasn’t the most ideal place for the BC-born pop singer; she needs to be in a place... Read More

Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob

Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob
(Vapor/Warner Music Canada) Get used to it. The Quin twins have a bonafide commercial hit single in Closer, one that will transport their music to a much wider audience. Their first six studio releases may have been slotted into the indie file but there’s nothing alternative about Heartthrob, 10 tracks of hook laden, lyrics and catchy, danceable, techno arrangements (courtesy... 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

Helix – Best Of 1983-2012

Helix – Best Of 1983-2012
(Helix Records) Kitchener Ontario’s Helix is a band with a split personality. Live they are one of this country’s most dynamic on-stage performers with a heavy metal persona that rivals any major international live act. Yet on the radio; its soft rock, pop tracks like ` Gimme, Gimme Good Lovin’ and their A Foot In Cold Water’s `Make Me Do’... Read More

Nelly Furtado – The Spirit Indestructible

Nelly Furtado – The Spirit Indestructible
The first couple of songs the public got to hear from Nelly Furtado’s fourth English album, The Spirit Indestructible, are party tracks “Big Hoops (The Bigger The Better)” and current single, “Parking Lot,” but it’s a deeper album than that. The title, named after one of her songs, is a strong statement, two words — “spirit,” “indestructible” — that even... Read More