“There’s a lot of great music coming out of [Hamilton], ’cause it’s a workingman’s city and it lends itself to a lot of creativity."
Category: canuck rock
Hamilton rock trio the Marble Index tours England behind debut CD and gets a boost from a Big Shiny Tune
"We had the good fortune of playing with a lot of up-and-coming British bands that are starting to get quite a buzz."
Tales of stuck trucks are lyrical fodder for Corb Lund’s “left-of-centre weirdo country”
These days Lund has left the hard-rock road behind, stuck on a cowboy hat, and launched a career as a shit-kickin' country artist.
Toronto tunesmith Jason Collett worked classic-rock influences into Here’s to Being Here
The annual South by Southwest festival is one of the primo events in rock ’n’ roll, and Toronto’s Jason Collett is an enthusiastic supporter.
That time I wondered how cool it would be to see Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush opening for Rush
I thought it might be coolly Canadian if Mahogany Rush opened for Rush when they got here. What a (double) rush that would be, right?
Cuff the Duke’s Wayne Petti likes to imagine he’s the Band’s Robbie Robertson
"We're all huge Band fans, and I'm a big Dylan fan. So it was kinda cool to sort of pretend to be The Band, and he [Hayden] was Bob Dylan."
Raine Maida recalls how things got ugly between Bob Rock and him while working on the new OLP CD
Once you've acquired the services of a big-shot producer like Bob Rock, you're not supposed to fire his ass then bring him back again.
The Road Hammers burn up the charts with Jerry Reed’s rollicking redneck rave-up
I'm not a big fan of mainstream country music. You won't find any Garth Brooks, Brooks & Dunn, or even Foster Brooks CDs in my collection.
Nathan Wiley grew up on Steve Earle but can’t stop listening to Paul McCartney’s Ram album
At the 2005 East Coast Music Awards Nathan Wiley's sophomore CD, High Low, took the prize for alternative recording of the year.
C’mon frontman Ian Blurton suggests rock fans go out and buy Budgie records
In recent press clippings, Blurton has revealed that C'mon takes its power-trio heritage from such threesomes as ZZ Top, Nirvana, and Budgie.
Danko Jones wears his Thin Lizzy influence on his sleeve on Never Too Loud
Jones describes the music on Never Too Loud as more melodic than his previous three CDs, and more of a nod to some classic-rock acts.
That time Kim Mitchell told me that, the first time he heard Triumph and Rush live, they sucked
Back in August of 1989 I did my third interview with Kim Mitchell, who was touring behind his third solo album, Rockland.
Sam Roberts was inspired by Neil Young and Crazy Horse to keep the RECORD button on
“You know, Neil [Young] would sit down to record with Crazy Horse...and he would have a couple of riffs, and that would be it."