REVIEW: Boz a mixed bag
Full disclosure – we were all brought in by the promise of Silk Degrees. Okay, that might be making too much of an assumption on behalf of the audience who came out to see Boz Scaggs at the Jubilee Auditorium Monday night, but not by much. Silk Degrees, after all, was a monster hit, an […]
REALITY TV: North Saskatchewan Shore?
The Boss Life. You’ve seen this, right? I’m sure you’ve seen it, but I hadn’t until a couple of days ago, because all I do is watch William Powell movies and reruns of Masterpiece Theatre. Now, after repeated viewing, it haunts my very dreams. From what I can tell it’s a trailer from last year […]
COUNTRY MUSIC: Tommy Hunter’s last yeehaw
Canada’s Country Gentleman is hanging up his spurs after nearly 55 years in the business. Tommy Hunter doesn’t sound particularly torn up about it, though. Relaxing at his Florida home before the final tour that will take him across Canada this month – playing at the Jubilee Auditorium tomorrow (Sunday, April 17, buy here) at […]
MUSIC: Deon Blyan’s urban exposure at Haven Social Club
If Deon Blyan’s new album Turning to Wave is more about cities than it is about relationships, you probably can’t blame the guy. “I think I got sick of writing about girls,” the Calgary resident says, somewhere on the road in B.C. “I guess it had to happen eventually. It took on this theme of […]
PREVIEW: Hugh Cornwell likes it when you’re moody
When Hugh Cornwell left The Stranglers in 1990 he’d gone as far as he felt he could with the veteran English rock band. Behind him he left a series of classic punk and new wave albums (The Raven, Feline, Gospel According To the Meninblack among them) charges of misogyny and a style that took as […]
TOM MURRAY: Syl Johnson’s soul-stravaganza
I gave up years ago bothering to compile best of lists, at least partially because I can never remember what year an album came out in. I listen, I throw them on a pile, I forget about them. Maybe I check it out again later, maybe I don’t. The nice thing about being a freelancer […]
Black Mastiff mauls over log cabin recording session
Edmonton’s Black Mastiff – at Brixx tonight (Saturday, Feb 26) – have just finished tracking their upcoming album in the wilds of Alberta. “It was in (bassist) Clay Shea’s family cabin in Nordegg,” explains singer and guitarist Bobby Yiannakoulias (above, right) while picking up gear from the band’s rehearsal spot in anticipation of a road trip […]
MUSIC PREVIEW: from Motown to E-town to Downtown with the Pale Moon Lights
Pale Moon Lights, with Concealer, Jody Shenkarek and Fear and Worry Sat at 8 p.m. The ARTery, 9535 Jasper Ave It was almost like seeing the Pale Moon Lights for the very first time at last December’s CD release for Notebook Magazine’s Great Northern Revival compilation. They’d been around for years, but the three-piece – […]
