Our Lives In Music… Raised by Raptors
TRAGEDY WILL FIND US – COUNTERPARTS (Ben Wells: Drums) I had never heard of Counterparts before we played our second ever show opening for them at The Forum in Tunbridge Wells. I wasn’t really aware…
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Our Lives In Music… Taller Than Stories
Muse – Absolution (Lewis Mutch – Bass and Backing Vocals) For me, this album is the perfect combination of orchestral and rock instrumentation. The strings don’t take away from the band, they complement them and the…
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From the Vault… Nick Helbling
Anyone who knows my fun/crazy/hobbit-butt knows that I will talk to a complete stranger and chat them ad nauseam about my favorite subject: MUSIC. After listening to my favorite band, In This Moment\’s new album Black…
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Dan Robinson
Anyone growing up on a council estate in Cardiff in the 90’s, would find the subject matter Dan Robinson has tackled in his first novel, all too familiar. Harsh lessons-yes. Tough decisions-of course, but there’s…
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Our Lives in Music… Dead Label
Metallica – Master of Puppets Claire Percival (Drummer) : Master of Puppets is the epitome of Metal albums. Long songs, blistering solos, melodic parts, heavy chugging. It has it all. Every metal writer and musician…
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The Grindmother
If you haven’t heard of Canadian band The Grindmother you may be hiding under a rock. One of the biggest, newest phenomena in heavy music is this band which features 68-year old Grindmother fronting a…
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Higher Power
You want Hardcore? You want a groove you can dance to? Do you long for that late eighties and early nineties era NYHC when everything was about locking in that rhythm and just letting go?…
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Our Lives in Music… The Lotus
Nirvana – Nevermind Luca – I heard it for the first time during my adolescence and that album just opened my eyes to the grunge. This record has completely changed my life, as I started…
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Two Out Of Three Falls
“All of which is a roundabout way of saying that, in 2017, I just think the existence of the WWE Network has made the purchasing of physical WWE Blu-Ray or DVDs redundant. As such, I…
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My Life In Music… Billy T (The Black Bullets)
The Dogs D\’Amour – Straight??!! For without The Dogs and their rags to rags tales of destruction I would never have become the rags to rags singer of self-destruction. This album is so full of…
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It Ruined My Life… Mickey Hayward (Cope)
In Canada, we have always had a relatively isolated music scene, especially in the ‘90s and early ‘00s. MuchMusic was our source and because of Government Regulation there had to be 60% Canadian Content over…
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Terror
There are some folks in the HC scene that it’s always a pleasure to talk to and Scott Vogel is right at the top of that list. Over the years I’ve talked to him more…
