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Also: Commodore Ballroom book author leads tours of the beloved concert venue

Also: Commodore Ballroom book author leads tours of the beloved concert venue

"There is a lack of connection between what I would call an older music scene and what is currently happening. Theres just a major disconnect," local musician Amanda Rey says.

Though Montreal and other provinces boasted their quotient, Canadian punk’s twin poles were Vancouver and Toronto. The entire nation’s spiritual equivalent of the Stooges or Velvet Underground has to be Hamilton, Ontario’s avant-garage unit Simply Saucer. Began in 1972 by enigmatic singer/guitarist Edgar Breau, they oozed a loud, rowdy mishmash of the Stooges and such latter-day electro-psych outfits as Hawkwind via such charmingly titled angular riff explosions with power electronics as ...

The news that a-lot of us party animals didn’t want to hear. Harbourfest will be on hold for another year due to the pandemic and even though it stings, COVID is still not fully controlled at this moment and won’t be by the time the August long arrives. You have to put that into perspective and until it is, until everyone gets vaccinated or close to it we won’t be going back to taking part in some of our favourite things until it’s safe to do so. I know for myself it’s one of the bigg...

By: Andy Gensler (Fin Costello/Redferns) Leslie West performing at Londons Rainbow Theater in April 1973 as part of West, Bruce and Laing, which included Jack Bruce and Corky Laing. When Leslie West, founder of Mountain, passed away just before Christmas at the age of 75, the world lost a legendary guitarist who helped set a template for what hard rock could be. Tracks, especially the classic “Mississippi Queen,” as well as lesser known banger...