Next Week in Music | Oct. 2-8 • The Long List: 400 Releases On...

I have been in Memphis for most of the past week watching bands, eating BBQ and drinking beer (not necessarily in that order). So I have had neither the...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 25 – Oct. 1 • The Short List:...

Wilco introduce their cousin, ’68 make it up as they go along, Johnny Dowd ponders the afterlife, Blonde Redhead gather ’round the table, Green Day drop a giant Dookie,...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 25 – Oct. 1 • The Long List:...

It happened 32 years ago today. On a Tuesday. All was quiet on the Sunset Strip. The longhaired, Spandex-clad metal dinosaurs were fat, arrogant and sleepy. They didn't notice the...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 25 – Oct. 1 • New Books

Pro tip: If you're going to go interview a bunch of rich old white guys for your next book and ignore women, people of colour and everybody else, don't...

Next Week in Music | Sept. 25 – Oct. 1 • On TV

Wake up with Ed Sheeran and Barenaked Ladies (or Paul Rodgers, depending on your age and/or preference), catch Chance The Rapper here and there, watch more country stars give...

Diane Gentile Suggests You Lace Up Your Sneakers With The Bad & The Beautiful

Diane Gentile unveils her new album The Bad & The Beautiful and invites you to Lace Up Your Sneakers in her new single and video — showcasing today on...

Matt Glickman Announces Debut Album: Live from Starks, Maine 10.1.22

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Matt Glickman, the emerging keyboardist, singer, and songwriter in the New England jam scene, is set to release his debut live album on Nov. 10....

Bruce Cockburn Will Deliver Us All Next Week

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “As the universal accolades and extensive airplay continue to pour in for the 78-year-old Bruce Cockburn’s 38th album, O Sun O Moon, True North Records...

Chicago’s Viva Acid Multi-Day Funktion Back For Third Season

Celebrating Chicago's vibrant Acid House scene, Viva Acid’s Multi-Day Funktion returns for another round from Oct. 5 - 9. Paying homage to the roots of this Chicago-born genre, the...

Bruce Dickinson Announces Long-Overdue Album The Mandrake Project

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Renowned around the world as one of the greatest and most distinctive heavy metal vocalists of all time, Bruce Dickinson will release a new solo...

Sylvia Tyson Arrives At The End Of The Day (And Her Career)

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Today, on her 83rd birthday, after a decade-long layoff from solo recording, Sylvia Tyson has announced the Nov. 3 release of At The End Of...

Revamped BTO Are Takin’ Care Of New Business

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary Canadian guitarist and songwriter Randy Bachman has resurrected his iconic ’70s rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Original BTO bassist and vocalist C. F. "Fred" Turner...

‘Greatest Jazz Concert Ever’ Celebrated In Deluxe Reissue

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “On May 15, 1953, five of jazz’s most influential musicians — Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and Bud Powell — gathered at Toronto’s...

Hendrix Hollywood Bowl Set Surfaces After 56 Years

More than half a century after it was recorded, Jimi Hendrix and his legendary band's historic and pivotal L.A. performance from 1967 is finally seeing the light of day....

Next Week in Music | Sept. 18-24 • The Short List: 15 Titles You...

The National have the last laugh, Arkells clean up, KEN mode fill the void, Lydia Loveless stands tall, The Replacements and Susan Tedeschi dredge up the past, Buddy and...

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