It is a truism of Canadian politics that you ignore Quebec at your peril. That adage speaks to the strong hand Quebec has always played in determining the outcome of elections as well as its constant spectre of separatism. Bilingual […]
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In 1986, the Canadian children’s book writer Robert Munsch published Love You Forever. For many, the story captures perfectly the cycle of life. It is the story of a mother and her exasperating boy who pulls food off shelves, never wants to come […]
Buck 65 is a class act. When he got to fulfill a childhood dream last month of throwing out a pitch in a major league stadium he did a little more than the expected. When Cubs third baseman Luis Valbuena, […]
Zeus appeared on the Canadian music scene around 2009 with a handful of recordings that became their debut Sounds Like Zeus EP. Recorded in an informal clubhouse fashion, at their own jerry rigged Ill Eagle Studios, the name of the […]
The presumption is probably safe that when a musical layman hears the name of a band they assume a sort of democracy. Who of us has been in a band? How do they operate from the inside? Do most bands […]
Zeus has garnered substantial critical praise from their earliest hatched-together recordings, 2009’s Sounds Like Zeus EP. They are known as much for their guitar, harmony, and prog-driven roots as for their attachment to an ill-defined period of sound. Say Us (2010), Busting Visions (2011), […]
The brief period that The Band and Bob Dylan spent in 1967 (in actuality only from June to October of that year) recording music in the basement of a pink house in West Saugerties, NY, was as remarkably brief as […]
On one level it sounds like dogged persistence paid off. Billy Martin is in San Fransisco doing a drum clinic, the young organist Wil Blades whose built a name for himself at the Boom Boom Room thinks he can swing […]
Marco Benevento is one of the premier jazz pianists improvising in a rock context today. He is a bandleader in his own trio Marco Benevento, came to prominence through his Duo (Marco Benevento and Joe Russo), also touring as a […]
The Dukes Of September‘s second of two Canadian whistlestops blew through the Big Smoke last night without too many airs, nor fanfare, about it. Toronto is a musical town, increasingly asserting itself as one of the major cosmopolitan cultural centres […]
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