Metric was so concerned with the business of execution that for a while they ignored one of the key aspects of showmanship: acknowledging the crowd. By: Nick Krewen Special To The Star, Published on Sun Nov 25 2012 Metric forgot hometown factor — briefly — while playing ACC There is little doubt that Emily Haines is a star. All she had to do, within moments of taking the Air…
Lindi Ortega brings her blues-infused songs opening for Social Distortion at Toronto’s Sound Academy. “I like evolving and learning and exploring what I’m interested in, and I wanted to show that musically,” says Lindi Ortega of her new disc, Cigarettes & Truckstops. By: Nick Krewen Published on Wed Oct 17 2012 If Lindi Ortega’s star is rising so rapidly, then why is she singing the blues? The answer can…
Fabled Toronto rock trio, doing two dates Oct. 14 and Oct. 16 at the ACC, still learning things on new album. By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Wed Oct 10 2012 Twenty albums and nearly 40 years in, Toronto hometown heroes Rush are continuing to defy the odds. Despite creating a musical niche that courts intellectualism, prides itself in technical proficiency and continues to influence the…
How do you write songs that have political overtones without being perceived as political? . Veteran Toronto rock musician and Broken Social Scene member Jason Collett. By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Fri Sep 28 2012 How do you write songs that have political overtones without being perceived as political? It’s a dilemma local hometown songwriter Jason Collett finds himself in with Reckon, his fifth and latest…
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…
