Photo Gallery: Neal Morse Band – Club Soda – Montreal – January 31st 2017
Photos from the Neal Morse Band concert at Club Soda in Montreal on January 31st 2017
Concert Review: Airbourne with The Glorious Sons and One Bad Son – Corona Theatre – Montreal, October 16th 2014
The Corona was host to a triple bill of rock as Australian rockers Airbourne were in town to promote their latest album Black Dog Barking, with support from Canadian bands…
Album cover in the Real World: Moving Pictures by Rush
The cover to Rush’s seminal album, 1980’s Moving Pictures, works on three different levels to illustrate the title. First of all, you can see 6 people transporting paintings, or…
Music in pictures: Beauty without sound
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. It is also said that music expresses what words can’t express. This leads me to say that a picture…
Concert Review: Jake Bugg – Metropolis, Montreal, January 12 2014
This was Jake Bugg’s 3rd Montreal show in 6 months: he played the Osheaga Festival last August, then played a sold out show at the Corona Theatre in September (about…
Concert Review: Goblin – Le National, Montreal October 10 2013
I’ve been going to concerts for close to 30 years, and I’ve seen a lot of shows in that span of time. I’ll admit to often being a little blasé…
Concert Review: KISS – Bell Centre, Montreal, July 29 2013
I must start this review by saying that my love of KISS defies all logic. I hate clowns, hate dressing up and love complicated music. But as I detailed in…
Song lyrics in the real world: Ace of Spades (Motörhead)
Pushing up the ante, I know you’ve got to see me, Read ’em and weep, the dead man’s hand again, I see it in your eyes, take one look and…
Song lyrics in the real world: Sheryl Crow’s All I Wanna Do
I’m in Los Angeles for the E3 conference and I suddenly thought about Sheryl Crow’s breakout hit “All I wanna do”. Great song from a great debut album. “All I…
Concert Review – The Cult
Metropolis – Montreal – September 1st 2012 The Cult was a band that I must admit was only on the periphery of my radar in their heyday. Their switch to hard…