Entertainment / Music He may have recently turned 68, but Paul McCartney performed like a man one-quarter of his age before an adoring Toronto crowd. Paul McCartney performs during the first of two nights in Toronto at the Air Canada Centre on Aug. 8, 2010. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Mon Aug 09 2010 Baby, we’re amazed! He may have recently turned 68, but Paul McCartney performed…
Entertainment / Music Despite a disappointing lineup, Mary J. Blige, Sarah McLachlan and many smaller musicians played to an approving audience Nick Krewen Special To The Star Published on Sun Jul 25 2010 When opportunity knocked, Canadian women answered. The departure of several headliners from the Lilith tour — Kelly Clarkson and Norah Jones among them — meant that space had opened up for several domestic acts to demonstrate their…
DAMNED AS THEY DO By Nick Krewen Damned Damned Damned. Whatever else fate has in store for London’s The Damned, the quartet’s 1977 Nick Lowe-produced LP for Stiff Records will be remembered in the history books as the inaugural British punk album to hit the streets. Although their popularity was quickly overshadowed by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, and let’s face it, practically every other punk band…
Wisconsin alt-rockers glad making fresh and innovative pop Nick Krewen Special to the KW Record Thursday, November 5, 1998 In the video for the new Garbage single “Special,” guitarist Duke Erikson says the three boys in the band get into an cyber-animated airplane dogfight with their Scottish singer Shirley Manson. Who wins? “Guess,” laughs Erikson, as if to suggest the feisty Edinburgh-based Manson would have it…
Folk Artist Digs Through Woody Guthrie Archives Nick Krewen Music, The Toronto Star July 27, 1998 Mention the name Woody Guthrie and visions of a serious, poker-faced dust bowl balladeer spring to mind. Whether it’s such socially and politically charged anthems as “Vigilante Man,” “Do-Re-Mi,” or his most famous classic “This Land Is Your Land,” the Oklahoma-born Guthrie is indelibly etched in American folklore as the premier musical biographer of…
