Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • The Long List:...
Summer's almost over — but the new releases never stop coming. Behold the ever-expanding list of new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • 15 New Books
I am not one of those people who pledges to read 50 books during the summer or anything. I don't need that kind of pressure. But if you happen...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 26 – Sept. 1 • On TV
It's quiet out there in TV land. So quiet, in fact, that if I didn't include reruns in this post, it would be shorter than Glenn Danzig. On the...
Kensington Market Jazz Festival Returns For Ninth Swinging Year
Cue the scatted syllables and snapping fingers: The Kensington Market Jazz Festival returns to the streets of Toronto the weekend of Sept. 27-29. And when it arrives, it won’t...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • The Short List: 13 Titles To...
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Illuminati Hotties and Fontaines D.C. Steve Cropper and Colin James. The Alarm, Uniform, Secret Beach, Melt-Banana and more. Not bad for the middle of...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • The Long List: 360+ Releases On...
Aug. 18, as any music fan knows, is the anniversary of one of the most important events in rock history: The 1962 Horticultural Society dance in Birkenhead, England. What's...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • 5 New Books
Moon Unit Zappa’s memoir, a bio of musical outsider Harry Smith and a collection of rock critic Dave Marsh's writing are all I need to get me through the...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 19-25 • On TV
Take note: If you're a fan of Seth Meyers’ 8G Band — which includes Les Savy Fav bassist Syd Butler, former Girls Against Boys keyboardist Eli Janney and (sometimes) Fred...
Toronto’s Liss Gallery Celebrates The Rock Visions Of Legendary Photographer Bob Gruen
If you’ve ever thumbed through a music magazine or gazed at a poster of a legendary rock star, the chances are good you were looking at the work of...
Willie Nelson’s 153rd Album, Last Leaf On The Tree, Is About ‘Facing Death With...
Willie Nelson has been singing On The Road Again for decades. But with his upcoming album Last Leaf On The Tree, it seems like he's eyeing the end of...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 12-18 • The Short List: 10 Titles You...
Ray and Shelby. Jon and Jontavious. Devon and Delicate Steve. A Blind Pilot and more than one Horse Jumper. You'll meet some very intriguing people if you swipe right...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 12-18 • The Long List: 300+ Releases On...
Happy 70th birthday to the one and only Joe Jackson. You may know him as the man who gave you the Hula Hoop. Or the man who gave you...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 12-18 • 11 New Books
If you want household-name bios and memoirs, you'll have to wait a few more weeks for the fall releases. Now is the time for more obscure — but I...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 12-18 • On TV
Sometimes the stars just align. For instance: Lately I've been spelunking in the catalog of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, because they’re one of those bands I always...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 5-11 • The Short List: 9 Titles You...
Somebody up there likes me. I mean, why else would the powers that be bless me with new albums by two of the greatest bands in the world —...
