Adams’ role in legitimizing Canadian music in the popular sense beyond its borders is incalculable, and his latest album ‘Shine A Light’ further cements his influential legacy.
Read moreSophie Ellis-Bextor Rekindles the Magic of Her Sterling Songcraft | Interview
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“Every time I start to feel a bit ‘comfortable,’ I like to pull the rug out from under me and do something different and a bit scary,” Ellis-Bextor confides. “It’s good for my head.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Over the Rhine Explore Their New Album ‘Love & Revelation’ Song by Song
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“Each record we have released is authentic to a particular time in our lives,” Linford Detweiler explains. “They are all mile markers on a long road that beckoned to us in our youth.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Ryan Hennessy of Picture This Embraces the Madness & Melodies of Modern Love
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“Modern love is all around us and it has so much character,” Hennessy says. “It’s a dysfunctional kind of love due to the modern climate we live in, but this album really embraces that.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Clear Soul Forces Define Their Own Lane in the Detroit Hip-Hop Scene and Beyond
“We’re an anomaly, and get love from a lot of people on both sides of the Detroit hip-hop coin,” Emile explains. “We’re looking to leave our own legacy, independent of what currently exists.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: The Cardigans’ Magnus Sveningsson Revisits the Enduring Legacy of ‘Gran Turismo’
“I think it’s a crucial album since we really changed paths there,” Sveningsson explains. “We didn’t want to go on as a ‘retro-sounding’ band so we threw that part away.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Dynamic Duo Sadat X & El Da Sensei Unite to Keep Pure Hip-Hop Alive and Well
Two of the most gifted lyricists ever to grip the mic have joined creative forces for their collaborative album ‘XL,’ in stores now.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Spencer Gibb’s Symphonic Songcraft Sounds Just Like Starting Over
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“These songs ended up being about letting go, starting over, and forgiving people for things,” Gibb says of his latest album ‘Let’s Start Over.’
Read moreINTERVIEW: Juliana Hatfield Blocks Out the World As We Know It and She Feels Fine
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“The concept of the album, and it became a little bit more than that, was coming to terms with a solitary life and trying to see it in a positive way rather than any other way,” Hatfield explains.
Read moreINTERVIEW: All Natural Revisit the Making of Their Underground Classic, ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’
All Natural take a no frills, strictly skills approach to their music throughout their debut album ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’ (1998).
Read moreINTERVIEW: Vanessa Daou Revisits ‘Zipless,’ Her Dynamic Declaration of Independence, 25 Years Later
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“‘Zipless’ is a philosophical act couched as a sexual one, a statement of creative independence,” Daou explains. “Why should I—or anyone—be compromised as an artist, especially as a woman?”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Savannah Conley Navigates the High Stakes of a Career on the Cusp
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“My words are the only thing I can absolutely, one-hundred percent control at all times,” Conley confides. “It’s coming out of my mouth, and it’s happening solely in my control.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Liela Moss Evinces and Embraces Another Side of Her Musical Muse
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“Writing and recording most of the album in rural Somerset was extremely special,” Moss confides. “The elements, trees and moon cycle became the brightest, loudest companions.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Nicolay Revisits All That The Foreign Exchange Left Behind and the Legacy That Endures
“We have a responsibility to not look back, to get outside of our comfort zones,” Nicolay confides. “And I think we’ve always made music that we want to make.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Dubstar Rediscover Their Creative Muse and Reclaim Their Artistic Power
“I always felt like we were on the outside looking in,” Sarah Blackwood says of the Britpop scene in the ‘90s. “But, this time around, I’m happy being the outsider looking in.”
Read moreWaxing Poetic: KT Tunstall Traverses the Soul, Body & Mind | Interview
“I want to challenge how you feel and how you respond,” Tunstall explains. “I want a record to shift you, where you get on the ride and it takes you somewhere.”
Read moreResilient & Resolute: A Candid Conversation with Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies | Interview
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Cowboy Junkies latest album ‘All That Reckoning’ is an outstanding set that underscores the band’s singularity it’s achieved over a thirty-plus-year career trajectory.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Stephen Lee Naish Digs Deep Into Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Know Your Enemy’ with ‘Riffs & Meaning’
“’Know Your Enemy’ is an example of the Manics’ iconoclast tendencies,” Naish explains. “But very little has been written about it and its obtuseness has mostly been forgotten or dismissed.”
Read moreINTERVIEW: Quentin Harrison Delves Deep Into Madonna’s Discography with New ‘Record Redux’ Installment
‘Record Redux: Madonna’ is the fourth installment of Harrison’s “Record Redux” series following the previous Spice Girls, Carly Simon and Donna Summer volumes.
Read moreINTERVIEW: Bobby Brown Exercises His Prerogative & Embraces His Truth
“You go through ups and downs, challenges, trials and tribulations,” Brown explains. “But you have to be able to be strong for the ones that you love and for yourself.”
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