If anybody's wondering why "Life Is a Highway" isn't on here, that's because it's from Tom Cochrane's solo career, and not a Red Rider song.
Category: canuck rock
Pregame tweet about Team Canada beating the U.S. for Gord Downie came beautifully true
Yesterday at 5 pm I was hunkered around the TV, hotly anticipating the championship game of the Four Nations Face-Off hockey tournament.
Rush’s 20 best songs, from wicked to freakin’ awesome
Many people claim that Rush was Canada's best band. Others point to the Tragically Hip, or maybe The Band. I reckon it's a three-way tie.
Vancouver tribute band Coast to Coast releases a pretty wicked video of UFO’s “Doctor Doctor”
Last year I checked out a few pretty awesome tribute acts, including Toque, Scott Smith & the Midnight Riders, and Coast to Coast.
The Guess Who’s 20 best songs, from wicked to freakin’ awesome
By Steve Newton From what I understand, the only Canadian acts in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame are the Band, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, and Rush. I reckon the Guess Who should be in there as well. 20. "Albert Flasher" (non-album single, 1971) 19. "Three More Days" (Share the Land, 1970) … Continue reading The Guess Who’s 20 best songs, from wicked to freakin’ awesome
The Ramblin’ Ambassadors’ Brent J. Cooper was inspired to go instro by Slow’s Christian Thorvaldson
When he’s not playing wild guitar in the Ramblin’ Ambassadors, Brent J. Cooper portrays a mild-mannered Alberta elementary-school teacher.
Jay Ferguson wants to keep Sloan going as long as he can because “it’s a great job”
Sloan titled its latest album The Double Cross, but not in reference to any personal or business betrayal its members might have suffered.
Harlequin’s Ralph James on working with producer Jack Douglas and bucking economic trends with One False Move
With the commercial success of One False Move, their latest, Harlequin have once and for all graduated from the prairie bar scene.
Todd Kerns’s Canuck-rock supergroup Toque plays Coquitlam on Friday, with guests Spendo
Led by vocalist-guitarist Todd Kerns, the quartet specializes in covering timeless songs by some of Canada's most beloved classic-rock acts.
Blue Rodeo’s 20 best songs, from wicked to freakin’ awesome
Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor comprise one of the finest singer-songwriter teams Canada has ever known. Long may they run.
Neil Peart tells Tom Harrison that Rush feels very fresh after releasing Grace Under Pressure
Last year I went looking through my boxes of old newspapers for the interview I did with guitar legend Gary Moore back in May of 1984.
Canada’s favourite band (sorry Rush fans) releases vinyl box set of breakthrough Up to Here album
Today the Tragically Hip released a deluxe vinyl box set version of its first full-length album, 1989's Up to Here.
Could Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties be Canada’s white-trash answer to This is Spinal Tap?
The trailer for a new Trailer Park Boys feature, Standing on the Shoulders of Kitties: The Bubbles and the Shitrockers Story, just dropped, and it looks like the movie might be DEEEEEECENT!