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Ramolo Urges Compassion, Calls for Action for The Vulnerable Unhoused on Powerful New Track – ‘Castle On The Street’

May 11, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber As passionate about alleviating the economic and social disparity in our communities as much as she is [,,,]

Guitar Whiz Chris Poland Talks About Nuclear Messiah Project, Megadeth, OHM And More!

May 11, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Chris Poland’s guitar artistry is the focus of an ambitious, and super cool new metal music project [,,,]

Carmine Appice Calls On More Musical Pals For New CACTUS Album: Temple of Blues II – Talks Ozzy, Blue Murder and More!

May 10, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Already a legend in the annals of rock music, with hundreds of album credits, millions upon millions [,,,]

Songwriter Ambre McLean Revels In Her Untamed Side With New Album – Wild Iris

May 10, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber A daughter of free-spirited creative parents, Smiths Falls, Ontario-based singer/songwriter Ambre McLean was born into a home [,,,]

Howard Jones Curates and Headlines Celebratory 1980s Travelling Music Festival This Summer

May 8, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber On top of his epithets as a modern pop music hitmaker par excellence, award winning songwriter, star [,,,]

The Mandevilles Are Back!! New Single, New Energy, New Focus

May 8, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Sometimes it’s good to get away for a bit – reevaluate, reconstitute, reconnoiter the new, post-COVID landscape, [,,,]

OUR MUSIC FESTIVAL Offers A Space for Inclusion, Expression and a Celebration of The Community-building Power of Art – A Conversation With Event Founder Andrea Ramolo

April 7, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber For the third year in a row, voices will be raised, spirits elevated, diversity celebrated and community [,,,]

Kingston Troubadour Rob Watkins Releases Upbeat New Album – Sunshine

April 7, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber A much admired, deeply respected, and endlessly convivial staple of the Kingston, Canada music scene, Rob Watkins [,,,]

Stitched Up Heart’s Alecia ‘Mixi’ Demner Talks About New Single ‘Cannibal,’ New Album Medusa and More

April 7, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber With a potent sense of cinema, a flair for the gothic romantic, and an emotional intensity underpinning [,,,]

Lyric Hollar of Texas Melodic Metal Band Lyric Noel Talks About Creative Process, Music as Healer/Connector and More!

March 24, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber An artist who can take her own challenges, who can persevere through pain, who can demonstrate resilience, [,,,]

India Ramey Gets Real And Raucous On New Album – Villain Era

March 24, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Not that this is the focus of this article on the brilliantly authentic, delightfully original and engaging [,,,]

Todd Kerns Excited For Chance to Join Triumph’s Rock and Roll Machine on Reunion Tour

March 16, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Todd Kerns has lived a pretty amazing life as a working musician , one who was born [,,,]

Living Dead Girl’s Molly Rennick Talks About Inspirations, Challenges, Process and Resiliency

March 15, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber What an amazing journey the life and career of Molly Rennick has been thus far. A girl [,,,]

Lee Rose of ACE OF WANDS Discusses Compelling New Album – Future Wave

March 5, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Intensely creative, emotionally resonant, musically dynamic, filled with a sense of renewal, of artistic exploration and of [,,,]

Art Alexakis Is Not Ready to Fade: Still Rocking With Everclear After 30+ Years

March 5, 2026 Joel Naphin Comments Off

For more than three decades, Art Alexakis has been writing the soundtrack to other people’s lives. From the explosive emotional [,,,]

Ottawa’s Feral FemmeFest Happens This Weekend!

March 3, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber A well-known and well-respected member of the Ottawa, Canada music community is using her extensive experience in [,,,]

Norway’s Lily Löwe Releases Melodic, Thematically Intense New Album – Beautiful Disaster

February 24, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber When a musical artist can channel her own inner conflicts, the battles between the darkness and light [,,,]

Music Biz Veteran Derek Shulman Peels Back the Layers of the Music Business in Informative and Entertaining Autobiography

February 24, 2026 Jim Barber Comments Off

By Jim Barber Derek Shulman has had a remarkable life and a wondrously expansive, diverse and dynamic career within the [,,,]

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Interviews

Ramolo Urges Compassion, Calls for Action for The Vulnerable Unhoused on Powerful New Track – ‘Castle On The Street’

Guitar Whiz Chris Poland Talks About Nuclear Messiah Project, Megadeth, OHM And More!

Carmine Appice Calls On More Musical Pals For New CACTUS Album: Temple of Blues II – Talks Ozzy, Blue Murder and More!

Songwriter Ambre McLean Revels In Her Untamed Side With New Album – Wild Iris

Howard Jones Curates and Headlines Celebratory 1980s Travelling Music Festival This Summer

The Mandevilles Are Back!! New Single, New Energy, New Focus

OUR MUSIC FESTIVAL Offers A Space for Inclusion, Expression and a Celebration of The Community-building Power of Art – A Conversation With Event Founder Andrea Ramolo

Kingston Troubadour Rob Watkins Releases Upbeat New Album – Sunshine

Stitched Up Heart’s Alecia ‘Mixi’ Demner Talks About New Single ‘Cannibal,’ New Album Medusa and More

Lyric Hollar of Texas Melodic Metal Band Lyric Noel Talks About Creative Process, Music as Healer/Connector and More!

India Ramey Gets Real And Raucous On New Album – Villain Era

Todd Kerns Excited For Chance to Join Triumph’s Rock and Roll Machine on Reunion Tour

Living Dead Girl’s Molly Rennick Talks About Inspirations, Challenges, Process and Resiliency

Lee Rose of ACE OF WANDS Discusses Compelling New Album – Future Wave

Art Alexakis Is Not Ready to Fade: Still Rocking With Everclear After 30+ Years

Ottawa’s Feral FemmeFest Happens This Weekend!

Norway’s Lily Löwe Releases Melodic, Thematically Intense New Album – Beautiful Disaster

Music Biz Veteran Derek Shulman Peels Back the Layers of the Music Business in Informative and Entertaining Autobiography

Emm Gryner’s New Single ‘Touch The Sky’ Sets Sights on the Moon and Stars Above

Quebec Songwriter Genevieve Racette Plumbs Deeper Emotional Depths on Deluxe Reissue of GOLDEN Album

Guitarist Hoekstra Releases Powerful Fourth Album From His Joel Hoekstra’s 13 Project – From The Fade

Foreigner’s Bruce Watson Talks Busy 2026, Band Legacy and Working With O.G. Lou Gramm

Big Sugar Hits the Road to Mark 30th Anniversary of Landmark Album – Hemi-Vision

More Documentary Screenings and New Video Announced by Bif Naked

Sarah Smith Brings Songs of Light, Love and Life To the World With New Album – SO BRAND NEW

PODCAST: Shane Christopher Neal – Industry 45 Podcast Show – From the Drum Throne featuring Jelly Roll Drummer Cody Ash

Seattle’s Baby And The Nobodies Return With Insistently Raucous New Album – READY OR NOT

Detroit Guitar Wizard Sammy Boller Releases Powerhouse New EP – Midnight Garden

PART 1 of 2: Lighthouse Stalwart Hoffert Looks Back on ONE FINE MORNING As Anniversary Edition Released

PART 2 of 2: A Chance New York City Encounter Leads to A Legacy of Musical Excellence for Lighthouse