Looking like the love child of Jackie and Blackie Onassis and dredging up an orgiastic frenzy of scuzzy, bottom-feeding riffs, Melissa Swing...

The Canadian lead singer/pop star scenario has another chapter thanks to Trevor Hurst. The solo debut by former Econoline Crush lead singer,...

While comparisons to Rob Zombie are unavoidable where Scum of the Earth’s debut is concerned (for a variety of reasons — most notably that t...

If any band best exemplifies the musical stereotype of "sad-sack, maudlin college rock” it is Aqualung. Apparently, singer Matt Hale and gui...

How is it that Winnipeg label Bacteria Buffet became the Canadian ska mecca? Following such fantastic releases as those by the Barrymores an...

With the news of Decahedron’s recent break-up on my mind, it’s impossible not to feel like the band’s efforts were wasted ones. Decahedron’s...

Not since Cheap Trick has any quartet made such exacting power pop as Austin, Texas’s Cruiserweight on their debut bulldozer ride through th...

The fact that Adrian Belew has had a storied career (stints with Frank Zappa, David Bowie and Nine Inch Nails) and is a wildly creative guit...

While many folk acts lately have gotten a lot of critical kudos by mining the gothic sounds of the American South (Iron and Wine, Jolie Holl...

It was once said that the only band in the Seattle scene of the ’90s that fit the term grunge was Alice in Chains. Following that line of lo...

Following her previous, totally homegrown (she recorded, produced, wrote and played everything) effort, Educated Guess, Ani DiFranco has tak...

The F-Ups are the worst kind of pre-packaged pabulum: catchy yet vacant and inauthoritative and destined for mainstream airwaves. The F-Ups...

Exactly how self-important must Gene Simmons be to have released Speaking In Tongues? The DVD is marketed as a sort of self-help video, à la...

Why Blondie even bothered agreeing to do a Live By Request set is something of a mystery. Did they honestly think anyone other than the host...

Not unlike all of the instalments of Live By Request, Blondie’s contribution to the series was supposed to be a greatest hits live collectio...

The Barrymores are proof that ska and reggae music don’t necessarily need a message for the music to be good (a sentiment often forgotten th...

In support of my theory that even a mediocre punk band can sound fantastic if you put acoustic guitars in their hands, I submit the cases of...

If it’s true that techno’s appeal for its fans is imagining the sound of a large, cosy waiting room where people can dance and relax until c...

Remember garage rock? Not the pappy crap being peddled on mainstream rock radio, the kind of music that was the by-product of the unmitigate...

Aberfeldy can’t possibly be for real. Young Forever is the debut of a Scottish band that wishes they were a band from the American West coas...