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Vancouver’s Spell Tackle Big Issues With Big Riffs and Insightful Lyrics on New Album – Opulent Decay
Hailing from the mountainous west coast of Canada, Spell is a hard rock/metal power trio that combines old school musical [,,,]
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Acclaimed Styx Drummer Sucherman Releases First Ever Solo Album – Last Flight Home
One of the most decorated, most lauded and most respected drummers in the entire music business, Todd Sucherman has spent [,,,]
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‘How Else Can I Tell You?’ Bears Witness to Cayley Thomas’s Remarkable Growth As An Artist
Early in the conversation, Edmonton-based singer/songwriter Cayley Thomas didn’t believe there was an overall theme or solid narrative thread running [,,,]
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Inspiration of Home and Community Celebrated on new Harmed Brothers album – Across the Waves
Themes of community, home, friendship and the importance of place as a creative touchstone are explored powerfully, melodically, and mellifluously [,,,]
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Fresh Start for Firewind Pays Dividends on Revitalized and Rockin’ New Self-titled Album
Sometimes, it takes a new beginning to bring out the best. This was the overriding philosophy guiding Greek guitar wizard [,,,]
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Burrito Brothers Carry on Band’s Legacy With Release of ‘The Notorious Burrito Brothers’
When you do a little digging into the influential California country-rock singer songwriters and bands that bridged the time between [,,,]
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Vandenberg Embraces Past, Present and Future on New Album – 2020
Legendary Dutch guitarist/songwriter/all-round rock star Adrian Vandenberg has exploded back into the rock and metal mainstream with an audacious, inspired, [,,,]
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Mike Tramp Feeling Comfortable in Own Creative Skin On ‘Second Time Around’
Best known to the casual rock fan as the former founder, lead vocalist and songwriter for 1980s melodic metal darlings [,,,]
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Bonfire Hitting its Creative Stride With Incendiary New Album – Fistful of Fire
German metal masters Bonfire recently released their 17th studio album, and sixth since 2010, Fistful of Metal on AFM Records. [,,,]
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The Spoons Celebrate Front Line Workers, Covid-19 Fighters and Offer Hope In New Video for ‘Landing Lights’
One of Canada’s most popular New Wave pop bands, The Spoons continues to demonstrate their cultural relevance and creativity, 40 [,,,]
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‘Sins We Made’ a Spectacular Sophomore Release by Harrow Fair
Serendipity and recognition that there was an artistic commonality played significant roles in the formation of the talented Toronto duo [,,,]
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After Years of Writing for Others, Shelly Peiken’s Own Voice Soars on First-ever Album – 2.0 etc
A native of Long Island, New York, and now a resident of Los Angeles, prolific professional songwriter Shelly Peiken has [,,,]
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Swedish Metal Masters Dynazty Deliver Epic Soundscapes on New Album – The Dark Delight
A powerfully melodic metal band that just seems to get better with every record they release, Sweden’s Dynazty (not a [,,,]
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Emily Rockarts Releases Compelling Debut Album ‘Little Flower’ April 24
There was a time a few years back when, even though she had already released an EP of original music, [,,,]
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Church House Blues is a Confident, Assertive and Powerhouse Statement from Shawanda
After more than a decade as a rising star on the country music scene and firmly established in her second [,,,]
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Silverthorne Release Back to Basics, Badass Debut EP – Tear the Sky Wide Open
For a truly badass, hard-rockin’, no frills, no BS, musical experience, you aren’t going to do much better than the [,,,]
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Andrea Ramolo Records Message of Love and Support For Italy – Proceeds Of Sale of Una Lettera to Go to COVID-19 Relief
Toronto-based singer/songwriter Andrea Ramolo could not sit idly by as she watched the horrific news reports of the toll the [,,,]
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After Nearly Four Decades Art in America Release Second Album – Cloudborn
Fans of early 1980s eclectic American progressive rock band Art in America must have the proverbial patience of Job – [,,,]
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Powerhouse Symphonic Metal Band Tulip Release Incendiary and Thought Provoking First LP – High Strangeness
One of the most talented and superlatively evocative new symphonic metal band on the scene is the Texas-based Canadian band [,,,]
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Upstate New York Prog-Rockers Epic Tantrum Release Debut Double Album – Abandoned in the Stranger’s Room
Epic Tantrum is an ambitious musical project, drawn out of the fertile musical minds of veteran Syracuse, New York-based guitarists/composers [,,,]
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Motive Black Hits All the Right Notes on Exceptionally Compelling New Single/Video – Broken
With a talent that matches her skill as a songwriter, and the passion with which she approaches her craft as [,,,]
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New Canadian Metal Band Imonolith Release Scintillating Debut Album – State of Being
If you hear a distant rumbling coming from the west coast of Canada, fret not, it’s not the ‘Big One’ [,,,]
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Roan Yellowthorn Celebrate the Songs That Inspired A Love of Music on New Album – Rediscovered
After releasing the powerfully compelling debut full-length album Indigo in 2018 on U.S. indie boutique label Blue Elan, the duo [,,,]
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The Sweet Lizzy Project Put a Delightful Cuban Spin on American Rock and Roll
Hailing originally from Havana, Cuba, and now firmly rooted in the verdant and vibrant music city of Nashville, The Sweet [,,,]
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Canadian Metal Legends Anvil Tackle Big Issues on New Album – Legal At Last
Forty-two years, 18 studio albums, and thousands upon thousands of live shows have elapsed in the sometimes rocky, sometimes euphoric, [,,,]
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Canadian Music Legend David Clayton-Thomas Gets Political on New Album – Say Somethin’
Say Somethin’ isn’t just the evocative title of the new album from legendary Canadian vocalist/songwriter David Clayton-Thomas, it’s also the [,,,]
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Swiss Hard Rockers Shakra Examine Our ‘Mad World’ on Powerful New Album
Veteran Swiss rock band Shakra has returned with a resoundingly awesome musical clamour with the release of their new album, [,,,]
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Matthew Good Digs Deep on New Album – Moving Walls
One of the most effusive and honest of Canadian musician/singer/songwriters, Matthew Good has never hesitated to wear his heart on [,,,]
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Norwegian Metal Master Jorn Covers More of His Faves on Heavy Rock Radio II
After the 1980s pop band A-ha, veteran hard rock/metal vocalist, songwriter and frontman Jorn Lande is the most successful recording [,,,]
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Long-time Pals Workman and Slean Collaborate on New EP and Short Tour
For first 10 or 15 minutes of the interview, it seemed like more of a conversation between award-winning, and highly [,,,]