Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Mon Jun 11 2012 If you want something done right, do it yourself. John Barrett‘s realization of that credo resulted in the formation of combustive garage-rock combo Bass Drum Of Death. “In high school, I was always in bands, but I started doing (stuff) by myself because I was the one managing it and still wanting to do something,” explains Barrett, whose…
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Nick Krewen Special To The Star, Published on Sun Apr 22 2012 Rock ‘n’ roll is supposed to be larger than life. Last night at the Air Canada Centre, Nickelback made it seem mammoth. Operating under the notion that bigger is better, the four deans of lustful, bone-crunching rock offered the estimated 14,000 in attendance (and pop star Avril Lavigne) everything that one would expect from a dazzling marvel:…
The Kills come to life after breaking their brain | Toronto Star Time with Jack White shook up rockers coming to Kool Haus on Feb. 7. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Fri Feb 03 2012 London-based garage rock duo The Kills has often been described as marching to the beat of its own drummer. However, when American Alison “VV” Mosshart and Brit Jamie “Hotel” Hince…
Bad-ass Band Doesn’t Deny The Devil’s Influence By Nick Krewen Special To The Star Tuesday November 2, 1999 Are Seattle’s Supersuckers the spawns of Satan? It’s an association the rogue quartet’s singer and bassist Eddy Spaghetti – Edward Carlyle Daly III to his mortal parents – will neither deny nor disavow. But judging the number of times ol’ Beezlebub is referenced lyrically in such halo-bending anthems as “Born…
PUBLISHED IN THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR AUGUST 25, 1998 NICK KREWEN Hamilton Spectator August 25, 1998 TORONTO: Seems American rock critics can’t quite get it right when it comes to defining and describing Cracker, the sardonic Richmond, Virginia-based rock group led by singers and songwriters David Lowery and Johnny Hickman. So the band made it easy for them on their new album Gentleman’s Blues. “I had to…
