AROUND TOWN: Wanda Jackson @ London Music Hall, Sun Oct 4th
The undisputed Queen of Rockabilly was belting them out while still in high school as part of country singer Hank Thompson’s band....
Janice Fiamengo: The Cultural and Social Havoc that Feminism has Wrought
As the commitment to freedom of speech on our university campuses grows ever more flaccid and proscribed, Janice Fiamengo, a soft-spoken...
Book Review - Reckless: My Life As A Pretender by Chrissie Hynde
Dubbed the “high priestess of badass rock ’n’ roll,” American singer/song-writer and founding member of the seminal post-punk1980s band...
Ian Hunter and the Art of the Literary Essay
“Intimations of sunset are visible well before darkness falls. It is in the fading twilight that one appreciates just how beautiful the...
LOST CLASSIC: Michel Pagliaro, Pagliaro, Much Records (1971)
One of my top ten Power Pop records came from right here in Canada, in the person of Quebecois rocker Michel Pagliaro. From his time as a...
MONDO PHONO: The Brave Combo
And a brave combo they were, in 1981 when the Texas punk scene was just taking off with the formation of the Butthole Surfers and M.D.C....
Miley Cyrus, Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (Self-Released)
In 1992 pop country, potato-faced crooner Billy Ray Cyrus disseminated one of the most cringe-inducing chart-smashers of all time, Achy...
