Highlights from my UK Legends of Rock tour: Liverpool, part 1
After a full five days in London, our group of 22 music explorers hopped on a coach and headed to Liverpool for the second leg of our journey through the UK Legends of
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What releases can we expect for the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day in Canada? Glad you asked.
We’re approaching the Thanksgiving long weekend, which means we’re starting to hear about the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day, which falls the day after American Thanksgiving. As usual, dozens and dozens
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These are the greatest driving songs of all time? Really?
Once again we have another British survey that’s actually an advertisement in discuss. But what the hell, let’s look. Isuzu Trucks, a brand sold in the UK but not in North America, commissioned
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Ongoing History Daily: The REM hit that started as a country song
When REM started work on their 1992 album, Automatic for the People, drummer Bill Berry brought in a song that had a definite country twang to it. He wrote it after hearing a
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Random music news for Thursday, October 8, 2026
Planet 9 may have been discovered? Are you sure this time? Call me when you are. Meanwhile, there’s music news for October 8, 2026. BONUS: Formula 1 races on Apple TV are going
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Photos and a review of the All the Feeling Tour in Ottawa with Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars
[Thanks to Mindy Wu for all of this. – AC] Earlier this year, when the announcement of Metric, Broken Social Scene, and Stars’ ’All The Feelings Tour’ came out, I was waiting breathlessly
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Miss Tom Morello’s all-star Power to the People concert? Watch it here.
With the US midterm elections coming up next month, Tom Morello organized a festival featuring some of his best friends. The goal? To encourage Americans to vote and hopefully tip the polticial scales
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Indie to Know: 5 Bands to Hear This Week
Welcome back to Indie to Know and first thing is first, thank you for all of you who read last week’s column and sent us music. We’ve now got a pretty solid stockpile
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Ongoing History Daily: Another look at weird music genres (part 2)
Last time, we looked at how metal has fractured into a million different genres, sub-genres, and sub-sub-genres. For example, have you heard of “blackened crust?” This is a combination of an intense form
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Random music news for Wednesday, October 7, 2026
A Glasgow distillery wanted to know “What would happen to whisky if we blasted it into space?” So they did. On to music news for October 7, 2026. BONUS: Mooncave. Cool.
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Highlights from part one of my UK Legends of Rock tour
For the last week, 22 of us have been tooling around London taking in all kinds of rock music landmarks on a tour organized with my partner Jody and Conor and his people
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