Tanya Tucker While I'm Livin'

Published Aug 27, 2019

It has been quite the year for Brandi Carlile. Of course, there was that show-stopping performance of "The Joke" at the Grammy Awards back i...

Amanda Shires To the Sunset

Published Aug 08, 2018

If the striking image of a shimmering, ghostly Amanda Shires on the cover of To the Sunset hints at the fact that fans of the excellent My P...

Ashley Monroe Sparrow

Published Apr 23, 2018

After The Blade garnered Ashley Monroe her first Grammy nomination, the singer could have stuck with a proven sound and approach to songwrit...

Various Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War

Published Apr 23, 2018

Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam:...

Alison Krauss Windy City

Published Feb 17, 2017

Windy City, Alison Krauss's first album since 2011's Paper Airplane and first to be credited to Krauss alone since 1999's Forget About It, i...

NRBQ High Noon — A 50-Year Retrospective

Published Nov 04, 2016

There aren't many bands like NRBQ out there. For half a century, NRBQ (which stands for "New Rhythm and Blues Quartet") have been delighting...

Lisa LeBlanc Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?

Published Sep 28, 2016

If the purpose of Lisa LeBlanc's first English-language EP — 2014's excellent Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted — was to buy herself...

Paul Simon Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto ON, June 21

Published Jun 22, 2016

At an age where many of his contemporaries have long retired from the studio or the stage, faded into musical irrelevance, or worse, Paul Si...

Bonnie Raitt Dig in Deep

Published Feb 24, 2016

Forty-five years into an illustrious career, Bonnie Raitt's place in music history is well assured. The young hotshot guitarist who idolized...

Laura Sauvage Americana Submarine

Published Oct 02, 2015

Best known as one third of acclaimed New Brunswick folk trio Les Hay Babies, Vivianne Roy doesn't entirely shed that group's emphasis on cou...

The City Now That Everything's Been Said

Published Sep 30, 2015

For everyone but her most ardent fans, Carole King's career can be split neatly into two separate periods: first, there was Carole King, hit...

Patty Griffin Servant of Love

Published Sep 25, 2015

Patty Griffin took six years to follow up Children Running Through with an album of entirely new original material, but the relatively brief...

Christine and the Queens Mod Club Theatre, Toronto ON, July 30

Published Jul 31, 2015

Héloïse Letissier, who records under the Christine and the Queens moniker, is already firmly established as a star in her native France: the...

Brian Wilson Danforth Music Hall, Toronto ON, July 4

Published Jul 05, 2015

Every few years, a new album, film or unearthed set of recordings seems to generate a resurgence of interest in the Beach Boys and the group...

Michael Rault M at NXNE Bruise Cruise, Toronto ON, June 20

Published Jun 21, 2015

Summer was still officially a couple of days away when Michael Rault took to the makeshift stage of the Captain Matthew Flinders as part of...

Dead Obies M at NXNE Bruise Cruise, Toronto ON, June 20

Published Jun 21, 2015

When it was announced that Montréal's Dead Obies were planning to record the follow-up to debut LP Montréal $ud during three concerts later...

Ponctuation M at NXNE Bruise Cruise, Toronto ON, June 20

Published Jun 21, 2015

M for Montreal's annual NXNE Bruise Cruise has become one of the festival's most popular events and it's easy to see why: you get to leave t...

Chastity Belt Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto ON, June 19

Published Jun 20, 2015

Riding high on the crest of a series of dates opening for 2015 breakout star Courtney Barnett, Chastity Belt's NXNE showcase was one of the...

Lia Ices Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Toronto ON, June 19

Published Jun 20, 2015

Lia Ices decided to reinvent herself following her sophomore LP, trading Grown Unknown's Cat Power inflections and baroque, mournful balladr...

Betty Who Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Toronto ON, June 18

Published Jun 19, 2015

Betty Who is not yet a star of the stature of former tourmates Katy Perry and Kylie Minogue, but if she never reaches those heights it won't...