Musicians tend to be packrats, never wanting to throw out any piece of gear just in case they might need it in the future. But there does come a time when it’s perhaps
Read MoreEvery year since I was 5 years old, I’ve looked forward to attending the Mariposa Folk Festival in Orillia. The reasons for excitement used to be different: back then, it was all about
Read MoreFaced with a charging Rhino? Better be able to reverse your Jeep fast. Take your time with music news for November 27, 2023. More music news? Look here. BONUS: The winning photograph in
Read MoreBack when I was playing drums in a band and you wanted a double-kick sound, you needed two bass drums. Then came the double pedals which allowed for double-kick rhythms with just one
Read More[Another story from correspondent Elisa FG. – AC] Cat. Rat. Hat. Chat. It takes a lot more than rhyming some words, layering tracks and a Soundcloud account to make music let alone write
Read MoreThe Foo Fighters HQ is hidden in plain sight on the periphery of a residential area of Van Nuys, California. It’s a big anonymous building with no signage. You really have to look
Read MoreComposers often agonize over lyrics, hoping to come up with an opening line that will grab the listener. My all time favourite is from Billy Bragg’s “Levi Stubbs’ Tears.” It says so much
Read MoreThe same musical instrument can sound different depending on who’s playing it. As a way of illustrating that, blues guitarist Jared James Nichols plays one of Eddie Van Halen’s actual guitars. Try has
Read MoreThat’s a pretty impressive headline, isn’t it? And while six octaves is an amazing range, this dude is far from alone. Mike Patton can do the same and is probably the rock singer
Read MoreKate Bush is still having her Stranger Things moment, so it seems entirely appropriate for The Charismatic Voice to take a listen to “Running Up That Hill” to offer some analysis. There’s a
Read MoreLanguage often fails us when it comes to explaining why a rock song sounds like, well, a rock song. This video takes us through a way of expressing the inexpressible. There’s a little
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