Category: Interviews

It’s beautiful summertime and the “Best Music Festival in Canada” is happening imminently. The Evolve Festival is an incredible three-day experience based on the celebration of music, community, art and the planet on which it all happens. Evolve is getting more attention than ever this year, after CBC Radio3 listeners voted the event as [...]

In the world of electronic music, there has got to be more sub-genres than in any other scene. Two polar opposites of those sub-genres might be IDM or Intelligent Dance Music and Electro-Pop or Club, although if you were to speak with Nick Fowler of Fredericton, New Brunswick, I think he’d argue for the two [...]

The Mahatma Gandhi quote “Be the change you want to see in the world” most definitely applies to the upcoming “Malahat Revue” tour. The tour will include artists Aidan Knight, Hannah Georgas, Jeremy Fisher, and Said the Whale performing as a collective on a 10-day long tour around British Columbia. The collective will be changing [...]

There are very few jurors for the Polaris Music Prize who work in mainstream radio. Adam Thompson is one of those few. He is the Program Director and Assistant Music Director for Sonic 102.9, a modern rock station in Edmonton. Adam was kind enough to sit back and have a candid chat with me about [...]

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My initial impression of Andrea Ramolo, when I met her, can be summed up into two words: “Bold” and “Outdoorsy”. Why? When I approached her, she spoke to me as if she already knew me, like an old friend, like no introduction was necessary. The outdoorsy part, well her attire screamed indie folk songstress [...]

Singer/songwriter’s are usually well respected for their finely crafted songs and lyrical poetry, yet many times they are plain hard to understand and relate to. Enter Andrea Ramolo, the Toronto based indie artist, who is currently on a 90+ show tour which will take her and bandmate Jason Skiendziel all across Canada. Her musical path [...]

Junkyard Poets are a talent-loaded six piece band who play a distinctive mix of rock, pop, jazz, blues, rapcore, and piano ballads. Fronted by award winning songwriter Jared Salte, their percussive and industrial beats with pop piano stylings create a sound that can jump from Rage Against the Machine or Nine Inch Nails, to Coldplay [...]

Originating from Victoria, BC, Immaculate Machine is one of Canada’s best kept rock n’ roll secrets. Could 2010 be the year that the Machines break out? Canadian Invader recently questioned Immaculate Machine’s front-man Brooke Gallupe about their massive tour in Asia, reuniting with the original lineup, and their determination to get to the top.
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I’d like to begin this article by telling you how much I enjoy the East Coast Music Awards. The four-day music and industry conference is a joy for a musician and music lover like myself. I’m surrounded by all of my friends who play music in Atlantic Canada, there’s plenty to drink, [...]