Canada Calling: Toronto punk vet S. Earl Hardy goes rootsy on new album Back In Del Rio
One year after returning from an extended music biz sabbatical -- the details of which must never be disclosed -- Toronto punk legend S Earl Hardy has followed up his raging opus Love Kills Slow with another thick slab of garage punk entitled Back In Del Rio.
Mutating from sheer
Marc Ribot on Resistance and its Songs
Marc Ribot has been an activist for years. For 2018, though, he's doing something new.
He's been a "rank and file" activist with his union, as he puts it. He's attended Occupy rallies. He's never been much for established party
Van in Concert
He doesn't make rock god faces nor jump around like he's being electrocuted when he sings. He just stands still and delivers, pouring out bucketloads of soul on his adoring disciples. In 2016, BBC Radio 2 captured a memorable concert of Van Morrison at the BBC
Pedal Steel Legends Lloyd Green and Jay Dee Maness share "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere"
In 1968, The Byrds released the legendary Sweetheart of the Rodeo, a deeper exploration of the country music they had begun to explore on earlier releases. This shift was brought on in large part by the entrance of Gram Parsons whose association with the band would introduce his sound and
Dylan Gospel Revisited
“I'd never been on stage before, and was looking out at the audience seeing people scream and cry and faint.” Regina McCrary wasn't quite ready for the reaction to her live showbiz debut. Although she was an important voice in the proceedings, it was the guy
'I Am the Blues and My Life is a Spiritual': Music's Unifying Power
Music touches people’s hearts in deep and enduring ways that words often fail to do. When people hear a certain song, they recall powerfully the feelings they connect with certain events they associate with first hearing that song. Music helps people live through desperate situations, provides soothing comfort in