[One last time from Ottawa with correspondents Ross MacDonald and Karen Coughtrey. – AC] Before the show, A Journal of Musical Things had an opportunity to chat with Jeff Burrows about their new
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Happy Thanksgiving! (To American readers, yes, we have Thanksgiving, too. It’s just that we do it early and don’t make quite as big a deal of it as you do.) There is, however,
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Way back in the Before Times (actually, February 2020, but it feels longer)I made a trip to Facebook HQ in Toronto to conduct a streamed interview with Hugh Dillion, Jeff Martin, David Usher,
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Back in the Before Times, I hosted a Facebook Live press conference announcing the Saints + Sinners Tour, a great cross-Canada package featuring The Headstones, Big Wreck, Moist, and The Tea Party. It
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If things had gone according to plan, Tea Party fans in Canada would have flocked to the Saints and Sinners Tour, which would also feature The Headstones, Ian Thornley, and Moist. Yeah, that’s
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If you came of age musically in the 90s, you’ll definitely be at one (or more) of the Saints and Sinners Tour featuring The Headstones, Big Wreck, The Tea Party, and Moist. I
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The 90s were when Canadian alt-rock really came of age. If that was your era, you’re gonna love the new Saints and Sinners Tour. Big Wreck, The Headstones, Moist, and The Tea Party
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The Tea Party is a rock band with blues, progressive rock, Indian and Middle Eastern influences, dubbed”Moroccan roll” by the media. Originally from Windsor, Ontario, Jeff Martin formed the group with multi-instrumentalists StuartChatwood
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Canada is the sixth-largest music market in the world. Only the US, Japan, the UK, Germany and France are bigger. Not bad, consider that we’re living right next door to the biggest exporter
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All Hallow’s Eve Eve? Sure. Let’s go with that. And now some music news for October 30. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders had a bad gig. Then again, she did ask fans to
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ONTour is a 23-date Ontario-only concert tour that’s taking some big name artists all across the province as a way of celebrating the province’s 150th year as part of Canada. There are two
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