Chris Birkett Receives Community Recognition Award
Toronto musician and producer Chris Birkett has received Ontario MPP Chris Glover’s Community Recognition Award. Birkett is a multiple award-winning singer, songwriter, and producer who has worked with such...
Albums Of The Week: The Ruby Tuesdays | Food For Thought
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Blackburn alt-rock quartet The Ruby Tuesdays’ debut EP Food For Thought serves up a blistering batch of gritty instrumentation and powerful vocal arrangements, fusing past...
Next Week in Music | June 26 – July 2 • The Short List:...
Lucinda shares some stories, Frank gets funky, Andy joins a new club, the Dead drop another live box, The Baseball Project get back in the game, the Fontaines’ frontman goes...
Classic DVD Review: Joe Cocker | Live
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
THE MAIN EVENT: The...
Classic Album Review: The Black Keys | Thickfreakness
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
MEMBERS: Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach...
Classic Album Review: George Abdo & his Flames of Araby Orchestra | Belly Dance!...
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
If you buy just...
Albums Of The Week: Daddy Long Legs | Street Sermons
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Street Sermons is the fourth album from Daddy Long Legs, New York City’s most diabolical blues-punk street gang — and the unleashing of a wellspring...
Albums Of The Week: Mammoth WVH | Mammoth II
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Mammoth WVH’s second studio album Mammoth II — recorded at the legendary 5150 studio — arrives in the wake of a whirlwind debut that included...
Classic Album Review: Kelly Osbourne | Shut Up
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
“I’m screaming for attention,”...
Now Hear This: Science Man | SM II
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "Buffalo, N.Y. lab rat Science Man is back with a new LP Science Man II, an album that cranks the gas on the maniac-fronted, drum...
Now Hear This: The 7 Day Weekend | The 7 Day Weekend
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “From the U.S.A. comes the self-titled debut album from a band with an incredible pedigree: The 7 Day Weekend are acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and producer Alan...
Classic Album Review: The Snitches | Star Witness
This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I used to think...
Albums Of The Week: Sunny War | Anarchist Gospel
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “I feel like there are two sides of me,” says singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso Sunny War. “One of them is very self-destructive, and the other...
Aficionados NFT Marketplace Aims To Help Musicians
A new NFT marketplace aims to help musicians ride out the continuing cost-of-living crisis.
Aficionados NFT Marketplace is a music-focused platform launching June 27 that is addressing the huge issue...
Thunder Pie | Red Dope Make You Fall in Love with Peasants
“Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look at you,
I sigh.”
— William Butler Yeats
In the evening, I take my wine in a jelly...
