Category: Interviews
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Jim Suhler Interview – Texas Scratch
Texas Scratch is made up of three born-and-bred Texas guitarists – Jim Suhler from Dallas, Buddy Whittington from Fort Worth and Vince Converse from Houston. This mighty threesome of big dog guitar slingers takes no prisoners when it comes to red-hot guitar performances, both live and in-studio. This trio of six-string guitar beasts are accompanied on the album by drummer…
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Alan Frew Interview 2023
Alan Frew, Scottish-Canadian singer, songwriter, actor, and author, and notably lead singer of the Canadian rock band Glass Tiger is bringing the infectious pop anthems of the 80s and 90s to Toronto for a powerhouse performance at Toronto’s Opera House on February 17, 2024. “Simply The Best” party possible, 80’s>90’s<<REWIND! will feature performances of classic hit songs that…
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Roger Earl Interview – Foghat 2023
The band is proud to announce they will be releasing its new album, Sonic Mojo, on Friday, November 10 on Foghat Records. Sonic Mojo is Foghat’s highly anticipated and long-awaited 17th studio album—their first in seven years–on the band’s label, Foghat Records, which is distributed by Select-O-Hits (part of the Sun Records family). It will be available as a single CD with 12-tracks and a six-page…
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Teengage Head Interview with Steve Mahon
CANADIAN PROTO-PUNK GREATS TEENAGE HEAD RELEASE ‘PERFORMANCE: LIVE AT HEATWAVE’ First time ever released! Vinyl LP and DVD Documentary Film In the summer of 1977 when the whole punk scene was blossoming in Toronto, word hit the street that some big-time manager was looking for the best punk band in Toronto. That guy turned out to be John Brower and he decided…
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Malcolm Bruce Interview – Heavenly Cream
Quarto Valley Records proudly announces the new album “Heavenly Cream: An Acoustic Tribute to Cream.” The album takes us on a magical journey — traveling the brief course of the iconic band’s musical life — back to the raw, stripped-down magic of the creativity of Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and Pete Brown. Passionately produced and mixed…
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Lance Lopez Interview
Lance, a resident of Nashville, is an American blues rock/ singer, guitarist, and songwriter whose primary influences are Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Jeff Beck described Lopez as “a very exciting and intense blues guitarist.” He’s an accomplished veteran of the Texas blues scene where they grow larger-then-life outrageously talented blues guitarists like crazy.…
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Doug Aldrich Interview – The Dead Daisies Canadian Tour
Renowned rock band The Dead Daisies are celebrating over a decade of rock with their upcoming North American tour and forthcoming album release. The tour will kick off in Toronto, ON at El Mocambo on August 25th and includes stops across Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. The tour coincides with the news that The Dead Daisies will also be releasing their highly-anticipated new album Best Of on August 18th. The album…
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Steve Vai Interview – Coming to Halifax
Steve Vai is coming to Halifax, Nova Scotia at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium on August 2, 2023. Just like I imagined, Steve Vai right in front of me, in the good old studio. That’s right, in the Harmony Hut. Steve, you’re coming to Halifax, Nova Scotia, for the very first time, at the Rebecca Cohn…
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Harry Hess Interview – Harem Scarem (2023)
ANDY CURRAN (CONEY HATCH) AND HAREM SCAREM ISSUE NEW LIMITED CLASSIC VINYL / DIGITAL HYBRID RELEASES AVAILABLE THROUGH NEW ONLINE RECORD STORE, SING MARKET Fans of vintage, Canadian melodic rock should make room in their record collections for two new reissues available today – Andy Curran’s 1990 debut solo effort Whiskey and the Devil 30th and Harem Scarem’s 1993 sophomore offering Mood…
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Clay Melton Interview
Blues-rock guitar prodigies are a different breed…especially those who have Texas roots. Johnny Winter…Stevie Ray Vaughn…Jimmie Vaughn….T-Bone Walker….Freddie King….Albert Collins….Billy Gibbons….all have ties to Texas, all of them are unique and all of them are legendary. Yes, it’s a bit too early to put Clay on that list but don’t be shocked if he carves out a…