“I had friends, for sure. Lots of them. But I still really enjoyed, mostly, being alone and going home and getting under the dining room table after school. And there was this long cloth over… Read More
“I think I learned years ago that you don’t get songs that have that long stride and that pivot-hinge ability if it’s too much diary entry.”— Leslie Feist Feist made this observation about her songwriting… Read More
“I don’t think people listen with their ears. I think they listen with their soul.”— Herb Alpert I heard Herb Alpert — the legendary trumpet player, producer and career-maker — say these words in the… Read More
Jools Holland is probably best known as the host of the long-running BBC music series Later …, which has been showcasing live performances since 1991. He’s also a bandleader and pianist, and was a founding… Read More
“It was a pudding, you know? It really was a pudding. It was a pudding of new ideas, and we were terribly excited, and I think we took it on our shoulders that we were… Read More
Goodness, did the boys in Keane actually look like boys when we glance back more than two decades to their breakthrough hit, Somewhere Only We Know. It seemed to be everywhere in 2004. The trio… Read More
We went to see Man of the Year, the first-ever musical from the theatre company Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, on Wednesday evening. Dom has been playing in a band for at least 30 years, but… Read More
Here’s a moment of joy for you. Dozens of people dressed in red, wearing stockings and black sashes, waving their arms just like Kate Bush in the most famous video she made for her 1978… Read More
Jazz on a Summer’s Day was released in 1959, and was filmed the preceding summer at the Newport Jazz Festival. Its opening moments combine the dappled, reflected sunshine in a harbour with a jazzy rhythm…. Read More
“It’s an odd pairing. I’ve always loved the audience, but from a distance. Once you’ve elicited a strong response from an audience, you want it again. That kind of an energy is as addictive as… Read More
On Friday night, Steven Page and his trio headlined the annual Big Ticket fundraiser for the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra in St. John’s. What an evening. (The photo above and another below come from the wonderful… Read More
“I wanted to create a woman who would be representative of my mother’s generation, because these women are leaving us, and I feel a great debt of gratitude to them. Not only was I raised… Read More
Beirut is the band in which Zach Condon expresses his ideas, or gets a few things out of his system. Like, say, divorce. Perth is a song released on Beirut’s album No No No in… Read More
Ranking Roger would have been 63 this weekend. Roger Charlson was born in Birmingham on Feb. 21, 1963, and was still a teenager when his band — the Beat, or the English Beat, as we… Read More
Something delightful happened this week. Labi Siffre, the British singer-songwriter whose work is perhaps better known than his name, released a new single. It’s a prelude of what will be his first album of new… Read More