Rock

Avett Brothers work at great concerts

Like the title of its latest album The Carpenter — released the day before they entertain Wednesday’s City And Colour crowd at the Molson Amphitheatre — North Carolina’s Avett Brothers are in the midst of constructing an enduring legacy modelled after the career of a good friend of theirs, Dave Matthews. Bob Crawford, Seth Avett and Scott Avett are the Americana act The Avett Brothers, opening for City and Colour…


My Morning Jacket blows Toronto crowd away with their picks

Entertainment / Music Jim James and company build fan-selected set list into exhausting, cathartic Echo Beach show. By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Thu Aug 16 2012 Jim James is a man possessed. Not that the My Morning Jacket front man and songwriter wants to be exorcized of his musical demons anytime soon, but he clearly relishes the opportunity to get in front of a crowd and…


Q&A – Alanis Morissette

  Nick Krewen GRAMMY.com August 2012   Thanks to her volatile 1995 multiple-Grammy-winning masterpiece Jagged Little Pill, Ottawa-born Alanis Morissette will always be remembered and associated as the young woman who gave what-for to an ex, spawning a host of copycat singers (Meredith Brooks, Tracy Bonham) who suddenly felt safe to vent their own frustrations to a receptive audience and striking enough of a public chord to sell more than…


The Spirit of Rush

NEWS Rush frontman Geddy Lee discusses the band’s upcoming tour, the challenges of picking a set list and the reason for their longevity NICK KREWEN GRAMMYS MAY 15, 2017 GRAMMY.com For nearly 40 years, Toronto-based progressive power trio Rush have been the thinking man’s rock band. On the way to refining and defining themselves as peerless musicians, vocalist/bass player Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson and drummer/lyricist Neil Peart have stayed…


Donald Fagen and friends cruise into new band

By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Fri Aug 10 2012 Ready for some retro soul, man? When the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue convenes at Molson Amphitheatre this Sunday led by the stellar trio of Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, ex-Doobie Brother Michael McDonald and “Lido Shuffle” hitmaker Boz Scaggs, they’ll be mixing it up for the masses. While it’s not too much of a stretch to assume…