Articles by Brent Hagerman
Sinead O'Connor
The Exclaim! Questionnaire
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
What are you up to? Right now I'm having a coffee latté and a large spliff in my manager's room and I'm talking to you. What are your curr...
Various
Before the Big Feast
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
There's something going on in PEI. One of the quieter Maritime provinces, musically speaking, the rock seems to have gushed forth in a crea...
Johnny Irion
Unity Lodge
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
The best material on Unity Lodge evokes some of the great singer/songwriters, like Willie Nelson, Graham Parsons and Neil Young. With a voi...
Penny Lang
Gather Honey
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Never has such a spooky version of "In the Pines" graced my stereo. The then 21-year-old Penny Lang's live 1963 take on the ancient Leadbel...
Tuesdays
Build a Horse
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Build a Horse started out as something entirely different. A few Charlottetown bands got together (among them Eyes for Telescopes and the R...
Thea Gilmore
Rules For Jokers
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
21-year-olds aren't supposed to make music this good. Prolific and wise way beyond her years, this Irish-sired, Oxford-bred lass's third re...
Bic Runga
Beautiful Collision
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
New Zealand's biggest star has taken three years to create the follow-up to her debut Drive. It was time well spent, as this cigar smokin'...
Nathan Wiley
Bottom Dollar
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Wiley suffers talent well. Concocting 11 sundry offerings from musings of hog cemeteries, pillaging bandits, the saving power of sin and re...