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Cooking Up New Themes

Nick Krewen GRAMMY.COM August 2005   Ate any good music lately? Starving for new challenges outside their proven abilities, recording artists are increasingly entering the kitchen to chase their next meal ticket: food and drink product lines. Whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, notably established pop, country, rock and R&B stars are offering edible commodities geared to any taste. You can start the day off with some links of George…


Rush Future Uncertain

Nick Krewen The Kitchener-Waterloo Record December 24, 1998 On the eve of their 25th anniversary, the future of Rush is uncertain. A pair of personal tragedies suffered this year by drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, namely the double blow of losing his daughter and wife within a few months of each other, has placed a question mark on whether the enduring Canadian band will continue. “It’s difficult to discuss a…


KISS 1998

  NICK KREWEN Hamilton Spectator March 27, 1998       Not in this lifetime. If you’re a soldier of the KISS Army, loyally conscripted in the face-painted glam rock heydays when a fire-breathing, blood-spitting Gene Simmons and hip-swaying frontman Paul Stanley were thrilling crowds and filling auditoriums with axeman Ace Frehley and drummer Peter (The Cat) Criss on board, you probably never thought the day would come where all four…


Meeting Pope Was Highlight: B.B. King

MEETING POPE WAS HIGHLIGHT: B.B. KING Gets 1st gold album in 48 years, Blues Brothers 2000 coming up      NICK KREWEN THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR, Wednesday, January 21, 1998 TORONTO — The undisputed King Of The Blues calls meeting Pope John Paul II “the highlight of my life,” but says he didn’t offer him any lessons after giving him a replica of his prized guitar Lucille. “No, I did not,”…


KISS Reunion of All Original Members Still Strong Two Years Later

PUBLISHED IN THE KITCHENER WATERLOO RECORD Wednesday, March 26, 1997 NICK KREWEN The Kitchener-Waterloo Record March 26, 1997   Not only are Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, KISS in make-up, but they’ve kissed and made up. A reunion during a taping of MTV Unplugged in August 1995 following the band’s groundbreaking convention swing sparked forgiveness between the seminal New York glam rock band’s founders — Stanley…