There are a lot of great Christmas songs. Whatever floats your boat … Here are mine! Merry Christmas ! Father Christmas The Kinks Run Rudolph Run Chuck Berry Merry Xmas Baby Bruce Springsteen Rockin Around the Christmas Tree Brenda Lee Happy Christmas (War is Over) John Lennon The Christmas Blues Bob Dylan Merry Christmas ( I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight) The … Continue reading Top Ten Christmas Songs
It is unfair to list top ten shows since every artist or artists give their all each time they play. Sometimes they are good, sometimes they are bad on any given night. Here are the top ten shows which I enjoyed the most in 2012 … 10. Lee Mellor Lee’s show was high energy and joined a love of country and old-fashioned rock n roll. … Continue reading Top Ten Concerts of 2012
Get free music from these amazing artists and help spread the message of human rights and justice. Available now: METRIC • NELLY FURTADO • PIERRE LAPOINTE • ARIANE MOFFATT • ADAM COHEN • SARAH SLEAN • ROYAL WOOD • ROCH VOISINE • MISSTRESS BARBARA • EMMANUEL JAL • DUMAS • DYLAN MURRAY • FEFE DOBSON • GRIMES • DANE HARTSELL • MELISSA AUF DER MAUR … Continue reading For the Holidays, Amnesty International Presents: Artists For Amnesty
TWO OF CANADA’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED WORLD MUSIC ACTS MELT AWAY THE JANUARY FREEZE IN A SIZZLIN’ DOUBLE BILL!! JUNO nominees & 2x Canadian Folk Music Award Winners SULTANS OF STRING PLUS! JUNO & Canadian Folk Music Award Winner DOMINIC MANCUSO! THE MARKHAM THEATRE – JAN 18, 8PM WHERE: Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd, Markham WHEN: Fri Jan 18, 8:00-10:00pm TIX/INFO: $49 / $54 905-305-7469 305_show@markham.ca … Continue reading A Reason to go to Toronto …!
Top Ten interviews of 2012 … 10. Lee Mellor 9.Jason Rockman 8. Susie Arioli 7. Cecile Doo Kingue 6. Roger Walls 5. Randy Bowen 4. Sass Jordan 3 .Frank Marino The last two are from the same group – at different times … 2. Jerry Mercer Although Jerry’s interview(the main one) was not carried out in 2012, it was the beginning of the popularity to … Continue reading Top Ten Interviews of 2012
Happy Birthday to the human riff … Keith Richards Related articles Happy Birthday Keith Richards (maryannesjukebox.wordpress.com) Keith Richard’s Voice (aldanaart.com) Hunter S. Thompson Interviews Keith Richards, and Very Little Makes Sense (openculture.com) Johnny Depp Recruits Keith Richards And Tom Waits For Pirate Album (noise11.com) How To Dress Like Keith Richards For Halloween (wncx.cbslocal.com) Keith Richards to star in Pirates 5 (contactmusic.com) Top Ten Things Keith … Continue reading Happy Birthday Keith Richards!
Next up on my list – two people who helped enormously in putting Canada on the map musically … 4. Sass Jordan I spoke with Sass, not once – twice for a couple of hours each time. She is warm, sweet, funny and tough. A trooper who helped pave the wave for Canadian rockers in the States … https://keenemusic.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/sass-jordan-transplanted-montreal-girl-does-good-part-one/ https://keenemusic.wordpress.com/2012/10/29/sass-jordan-transplanted-montreal-girl-does-good-part-two/ https://keenemusic.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/sass-jordan-transplanted-montreal-girl-does-good-part-three/ 3. Frank Marino Frank … Continue reading Top Ten Interviews of 2012
The human riff. Keef. The original bad boy and guitarist who defined the behavior for five decades of rock n roll offspring … He is a man’s man. He stays the course, remains true to his beliefs no matter the consequences. For this reason, here now are the Top Ten things Keith Richards will probably never say … 10. ‘Hey Mick! I love that matching … Continue reading Top Ten Things Keith Richards Will Probably Never Say
I am continuing the top ten interviews I conducted in 2012 … So far … 10. Lee Mellor 9.Jason Rockman 8. Susie Arioli 7. Cecile Doo Kingue 6. Roger Walls Roger Walls is a walking Jazz encyclopedia. Is it any wonder …? Walls has been around playing his horns for thirty plus years. If he has not played alongside the likes of Tony Bennett, then … Continue reading Top Ten Interviews of 2012
Auresia believes that anyone who comes to her show tonight – will be dancing away the winter blues … The beautiful singer of Ukrainian origin has just released her first ep ‘So In Love With You‘ and she plans on introducing it tonight at Bobards – 4328 Saint Laurent Boulevard. Doors open at 9pm. “I will be on stage with a seven piece band. There will … Continue reading Reggae in December – Auresia Style
Following the success of the inaugural edition in 2012, Dungeon Works Productions and Evenko are proud to present En Route to Heavy MTL 2013 and the selected twenty bands that will be battling it out over the next five months to win one of two opening slots at this year’s 2013 HVY MTL. With hundreds of applications this year from across the province of Quebec, … Continue reading En Route To HVY MTL Announce BOTB 2013 Line Up Presented by Dungeonworks and Evenko
Some people are born to bake cakes. For others – mechanics may be their thing. Steve Hill of Trois Rivieres, is meant to play guitar … At Club Soda on Saturday night, in a concert dubbed ‘A Return to Montreal‘ – Hill proved once more why he is considered to be one of the best blues guitarists in North America. How about one of the … Continue reading Steve Hill; King of the Mountain
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