Album review: Black Wail – Chromium Homes
In the end, Black Wail defies any cataloging effort. It rocks, it’s smart, it’s adventurous. And it sounds great.
Concert review: Space Oddity: The Ultimate Tribute to David Bowie – Club Soda, Montreal – June 2nd 2016
Is Space Oddity the ultimate tribute to David Bowie? One thing is sure: it is an excellent celebration of the sound and vision of David Bowie.
Concert review: AndersonPonty Band – Theatre St-Denis, Montreal – May 26th 2016
Jon Anderson and Jean-Luc Ponty played a fantastic concert of music for the soul
Keeping the legend of David Bowie alive with Space Oddity, the Ultimate Tribute
From pre-fame Quiet Riot to Beatles tribute bands to Space Oddity, David Brighton’s career has been full of interesting twists and turns. For the last 16 years, he’s devoted his…
Concert review: The Glorious Sons (with Northcote and Poor Young Things) – Petit Campus, Montreal – November 27th 2015
It was a night of loud, sweaty rock ’n roll last Friday at the Petit Campus as three of Canada’s finest up and coming bands played their hearts out on…
30 years of concerts
Exactly 30 years ago today, on March 12 1984, I saw my first rock concert. At the tender age of 12, I managed to convince my parents to take me…
Song Lyrics in the real world: The Beatles’s Rocky Racoon
Now somewhere in the black mountain hills of Dakota There lived a young boy named Rocky Raccoon And one day his woman ran off with another guy Hit young Rocky…
Portrait of an addiction
The multiple forms my addiction to music takes. Every object in this image has meaning to me, or is a memento. The Cherry Sunburst Les Paul is the guitar I…
50 years ago today: The Beatles released their first album
50 years ago, a promising young band from Liverpool released their first album. After the initial success of their first 2 singles “Love Me Do” and “Please Please Me“, the…
It was 49 years ago today…
It was 49 years ago today that The Beatles first appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. Their first US appearance broke TV viewership records and launched the British Invasion in…