Jim Barber, Author at Music Life Magazine

Sometimes an EP is a lot more than just an EP. For Vancouver songwriter/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Piper Cole, the release of her debut five-song EP, Wildish is so much more than just an inaugural foray into the […]

One of the most prolific progressive rock composers on the planet, vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Billy Sherwood recently released his 11th solo album, and second in a unique series, entitled Citizen: In The Next Life. Currently a member […]

Sum 41 has returned with arguably the quintet’s most incendiary, most no-nonsense, most memorable and most raw album in the band’s two decade history. Order in Decline features some of the most politically strident, most […]

The members of Collective Soul spent a good part of their 25th anniversary year in 2018 putting together songs for the powerful new album Blood – a collection of songs that invokes the past glories, […]

Los Angeles quartet, The Jacks, are already the darlings of the local southern California rock scene. With the recent release of their self-titled debut album, that acclaim and popularity will undoubtedly spread far and wide […]