See more photos at TurnItUp or TurnItOff Photography I have to admit that I was half loaded before I even arrived at the El Mocambo to see A.A. Bondy on Thursday night, December 3. I had dinner earlier that evening […]
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Bluegrass has often been described as music for common people. You will usually see a bluegrass band hovering around a central microphone, with no electric instruments in sight. The songs are highly narrative, with the traditional themes of home, family, […]
From my blog: My Aimz is True As regular readers of my blog will already know, I got really sick, landed my sorry ass in the ER, and missed Corb Lund’s Toronto gig. The upside is that I got some […]
This may be a news flash to some of you, but I am not cool. I have serious envy of bloggers who are better writers than I am, who have their shit together enough to post every day, who get […]
Carolyn Mark is my new hero. I’d never seen her live before she and NQ Arbuckle played a double, actually triple, bill at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto on Thursday, October 22. The Dakota is exactly the kind of place […]
There has been a lot of hoopla among Lucero fans such as myself over the new album 1372 Overton Park about Lucero’s use of horns on much of the album. My first impression was that lead singer/songwriter Ben Nichols has […]
2009 is turning out to be a really great year for new music. It is also turning out to be the year of the covers/tribute albums. Already we have heard covers/tribute releases from Phosphorescent (To Willie), The Sadies and John […]
There are pluses and minuses to big music festivals like North by North East (NxNE). Plus: awesome bands and artists come to town. Minus: You have to get to the venue hours early and endure sweaty hipsters just to see […]
Rule number one when headlining a live gig: don’t let the opening band upstage you. NQ Arbuckle opened the early show at the Mod Club in Toronto on Friday, May 29, with some serious country-rock. Lead by raspy-voiced Neville Quinlan, […]
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