8th Annual South Coast Jazz & Blues Festival Ready To Roll
Heather Bambrick, the Lou Pomonti Trio, John Finley, Charu Suri, and more are set to dazzle audiences from both in-person and the comfort of their homes for the 8th...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 4-10 • The Short List: 12 Titles...
Billie Joe Armstrong once asked people to wake him up when September ends. I have a different question: Where the hell did September go? I was so busy that...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 4-10 • The Long List: 375 Releases On...
Welcome to Rocktober. Get in the mood by checking out these 375-plus new EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks and vinyl reissues. Here's the full list:
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Next Week in Music | Oct. 4-10 • New Books
Grohl and Guthrie, Shaun and Shane, B.B. and Bob, Cohen and The Clash, The Stranglers and The Stones, King and Kelly, Van Halen and more Van Halen — next...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 4-10 • On TV
Cat Power and Jade Bird, X Ambassadors and Charli XCX, Lord Huron and Billy Idol — if you didn't know better, you might think the late-night TV talent bookers...
David Binks Recalls That Night At Massey Hall
To create an archive for one of Canada’s iconic venues, author David Binks has written and compiled That Night At Massey Hall — available for pre-orders now.
At 240 pages,...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 27 – Oct. 3 • The Short List:...
Indie rockers and industrial icons. Psychedelic ’60s jam bands and ’70s arena-rockers. Jazz crooners and contemporary singer-songwriters. Bootlegs and B-Sides collections. These are a few of my favourite things...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 27 – Oct. 3 • The Long List:...
Fun fact No. 1: Half of all bank robberies take place on Fridays. Fun fact No. 2: The vast majority of new albums — not to mention EPs, singles,...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 27 – Oct. 3 • New Books
As P.T. Barnum said: “Nothing draws a crowd quite like a crowd.” I don't know if ol’ Phineas Taylor was into music (other than Jenny Lind, of course), but I...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 27 – Oct. 3 • On TV
You can put Saturday Night Live and Austin City Limits back on your watch list — both shows kick off new seasons next weekend, with performances by Kacey Musgraves,...
Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels Reopening For 50th Anniversary
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Released in October 1971, Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels was a miraculous feat, a cinematic collision of the venerated musician and composer’s kaleidoscopic musical and visual worlds...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 20-26 • The Short List: 6 Titles You...
Any week that includes new music from Jesse Malin, Ringo Starr, Poppy and members of Morphine — not to mention vintage cuts from Jakob Dylan and Luther Russell, plus...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 20-26 • The Long List: 450+ Releases On...
As Frank Zappa taught us: There's no way to delay that trouble comin' every day. Similarly, there's no way to escape the 450-plus albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations,...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 20-26 • New Books
The Beatles and Bowie. Led Zeppelin and LCD Soundsystem. Ska and The Sweet. It's another jam-packed week for new music books — and I haven't even mentioned Peter Gabriel, The...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 20-26 • On TV
Slowly but surely, the big names are coming out of the woodwork with new music — and coming back to late-night TV to hawk their wares. Next week's lineup includes...
