I hit the wall. I spent the past decade – when I wasn’t raising kids, fixing an old house, or trying to find just enough other work to cover the mortgage – and almost all of my free time, as […]
Doug Heselgrave is a writer and editor based in Vancouver, Canada.
Blessed with clumsy guitar fingers and a two note vocal range, Doug's work often appears at www.pastemagazine.com, www.nodepression.com and www.restlessandreal.blogspot.ca
I hit the wall. I spent the past decade – when I wasn’t raising kids, fixing an old house, or trying to find just enough other work to cover the mortgage – and almost all of my free time, as […]
To say that Neil Young has always been difficult to pin down is to overstate the obvious. He has experimented with so many different types and approaches to music in the last half century that his fans often have no […]
Review by Douglas Heselgrave Some things can’t be written about without diminishing them. Anoushka Shankar’s newest CD of Indian classical music, ‘Home’ is like that. After listening to it over and over again for the past week as Vancouver continues to […]
Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real – live at the Hard Rock Café, Vancouver Canada. From the very first time I heard Lukas Nelson play guitar in his dad’s band more than a decade ago, I was hooked […]
Does anybody know how many albums Willie Nelson has put out? I can think of three that have come through my mailbox in the last year alone, and if I went down into the basement to look, I don’t have […]
Canada’s premiere roots music producer Steve Dawson talks with Doug Heselgrave about dialing it down and going solo acoustic, cutting an album a week for five weeks with an all-star band, and packing it all up and moving down to […]
Billy Joel’s historic 1987 tour of Soviet Russia is reissued as a deluxe 2 CD/DVD set How long has it been since you lost sleep over the looming Russian nuclear threat? When was the last time you thought of Billy […]
Talking with the Canadian Punk Rock legend about politics, Pete Seeger, the Guthries and that acoustic album he keeps threatening to record. Activist Summit: Joe Keithley and DOA talking backstage with Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie at Vancouver’s Malkin Bowl […]
A film about Ferron by Bitch (DVD/CD) Soundtrack by Ferron Review by Douglas Heselgrave But I don’t forget the factory I don’t expect this ride to always be Can I give them what they want to see? Let me do it […]
When the 30th anniversary concert was announced and advertised as a pay per view television special, the event seemed curious and as if it came out of nowhere. To be sure, the 30th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s arrival in New York […]