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ROCKthusiast Gilles LeBlanc revists Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Nevermind, 25 years after their initial release. I’m usually not one for “This Day in History”-type triviata, but I have had September 24th circled on my…
Final Rating: 8/10 James Osterberg is not long for this world. Talk about déjà vu. When I first heard the man more commonly known as Iggy Pop was doing an album with the much younger…
Final Rating: 6.5/10 For someone who has spent a good chunk of their career in a barebones-yet-boistrous two-piece band, “acoustic” isn’t necessarily the first word that comes to mind when you bring up the name…
Photos by Randall Vasquez It seems that half-assed band reunions and cashgrab-happy collaborations are all the “rage” these days. Yes, that pun is definitely intentional because at first glance, supergroup-by-definition Prophets of Rage awkwardly falls…
Photographs courtesy of Tom Pandi / Air Canada Centre. When this purported farewell Tragically Hip tour was first announced, it would have been easy – expected, almost – for the beloved Canadian band to stack their…
Photo by Lee-Ann Richer, Molson Canadian Amphitheatre 2015 The reasons as to why The Tragically Hip’s August 20th concert in Kingston will be momentous have been well documented. You’d have to be living in the…
With all this strife-filled talk of building walls to keep immigrants out and union-leaving referendums, Canada really is the best $#@%ing place in the world to live when you stop to think about it. Justin…
It never ceases to amaze me how the more things seemingly try to change in music, the more they actually stay the same. Cases in point? With sincerest apologies to James Murphy and his LCD…
Even in death, David Bowie continues to influence. Here is a small sampling of artists he’s touched, from his S/T debut to Iggy Pop’s new Post Pop Depression. Dave Grohl, Joshua Homme, Trent Reznor –…
