Rewinding September | The Top Live Albums
Back when I was reviewing concerts and going to festivals as part of my job, I used to see up to 500 bands a year. These days, I would...
Rewinding September | The Top Grooves
From British rappers to African bluesmen, here are the albums that got me moving in September, presented in alphabetical order. Just click on the cover pic to read the...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Oct. 1, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Garth Brooks, Chantal Kreviazuk, Sting and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say about them...
More Than 40 New Upcoming Releases For Your To-Do List
I spent most of Monday working on freelance jobs, including a bio for a veteran Canadian artist with a great new blues album on the way. You won't see...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 30-Oct. 6 • The Short List: Nine New...
Bigger isn't always better. Case in point: This week's new albums. You won't find any chart-topping superstars on the playlist — just a slate of albums you definitely need...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 30-Oct. 6 • The Long List: 180 New...
There are more than 180 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 30-Oct. 6 • New Books
Memoirs and biographies, coffee-table photo books and critical works — if you're in the market for something to read after the music stops, you have plenty of options this...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 30-Oct. 6 • TV & Movies
Roger Waters returns to the silver screen. Another score of performers sing for their supper on the small screen. Long story short: It's another week of music for your...
Steel Panther | Heavy Metal Rules
WHO ARE THEY? The last hair-metal hedonists still standing. The sleaziest sluts on the Sunset Strip since Mötley Crüe. And the men singlehandedly consuming 99% of the world's supply...
The New Pornographers | In The Morse Code of Brake Lights
WHO ARE THEY? The 20-year-old Vancouver indie supergroup (or collective, if you're into the whole egalitarian thing) featuring guitarist and songwriter A.C. Newman, accompanied at various points by Neko...
Tegan & Sara | Hey, I’m Just Like You
WHO ARE THEY? The Calgary-raised twin sisters who have been making personal yet polished folk and indie-pop together since high school — and who just published a memoir fittingly...
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | This Is The Place EP
WHO IS HE? The former Oasis singer-guitarist. Brother Liam’s lifelong nemesis and tormentor. The cantankerous crank who's currently feuding with Lewis Capaldi, Dave Grohl, and several other people we...
Sturgill Simpson | Sound & Fury
WHO IS HE? The iconoclastic American alt-country singer-songwriter who broke through to the mainstream with 2014's druggy Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, and went on win the Best Country...
The Replacements | Dead Man’s Pop
WHO ARE THEY? The mighty ’Mats. The original trouble boys. The notorious Minneapolis miscreants formed by mercurial singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, teenage bassist (and future Gunner) Tommy Stinson, his doomed...
The Beatles | Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
"Last chance to be loud!" jokes John Lennon to his fellow Beatles on one of the Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’s bonus tracks. At the time, of course,...
