Entertainment / Music Alt-J’s secret society of music comes to Toronto Mercury Prize winners play the Sound Academy Wednesday night By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Wed Mar 27 2013 One might think that with a name like Alt-J, which creates the Delta sign “∆” when pressed together on a Mac keyboard, the British indie rockers might have an obsession with triangles or pyramids. But that simply isn’t the case,…
Canadian Music Week: Hard work paying off for Rah Rah Regina indie band pushing its third album The Poet’s Dead at CMW Thursday By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Wed Mar 20 2013 For its pair of Canadian Music Festival appearances at Lee’s Palace and the Church Of The Holy Trinity Thursday, Regina’s Rah Rah will be down a man. When contacted at SXSW last week,…
Entertainment / Music Bowie proves age is nothing but a number on first studio album in a decade. Published on Tue Mar 12 2013 Rock David Bowie The Next Day (ISO/Columbia/Sony) 3.5 stars The secret’s out. After a major health scare and a decade of silence, many had assumed that influential and iconic rocker David Bowie had ridden off into the sunset. Instead, the man known…
Soundgarden rocks it out at Sound Academy With tundra-tough riffs and pounding rhythms, Soundgarden rocks it out at the Sound Academy at Polson Pier Friday night. By: Nick Krewen Special to the Star, Published on Sat Jan 26 2013 It wasn’t without a small amount of irony that Soundgarden’s opening salvo at the Sound Academy Friday night happened to be “Been Away Too Long.” It’s only been a couple of…
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…
