Paul Corby
Corby checks out the proposed new location for Hugh’s Room Live...
Venerated Toronto folk venue Hugh's Room Live held an event last week to show off what it hopes will be its new home. Its...
Abigail Lapell – Stolen Time
There is a sense of melodicism that leads the way on everything that Abigail Lapell does. Her songs follow a harmonic logic that reassures...
Sarah Hiltz calmly reflects on Anger in Conversation with Corby
Calm Fury by Sarah Hiltz is a new concept album, a mirage of healing radiating reflections in the desert of hostility, a flashlight probing...
Genevieve Racette – March 14 at the Dakota Tavern, Toronto
The moon in the sky is waxing, the snow hills on the boulevard are waning, and in downtown Toronto, starved music fans are coming...
Remembering Vince Fontaine with a posthumously published interview about Code Red
When I first heard that Vince Fontaine had passed away, snatched away at 60 by a sudden heart attack at the beginning of this...
Ronley Teper and the Lipliners’ new album is a multi-sensory genre-bending...
Toronto’s prismatic singer and composer Ronley Teper has recently beamed a high-spirited rainbow of sounds up into our ears with her welcome new release...
Corby’s Favourite Songs Released In 2021
Holding tight onto a lifeboat song has been a way-through strategy for many of us, ever since the slings and arrows began to pop...
The Toronto Blues Society’s 34th annual Women’s Blues Revue
You know, sometimes some of these blues guys can sound like they’re running a salvage job on a bygone spirit, brassy and cold, like...
Remembering Ron Gaskin in Toronto
On one of those miraculously clear and deliriously bright October Sundays recently, a church in a quiet harbour on Toronto Island was filled up to...
Muhtadi International Drumming Festival – Oct. 17 at Wychwood Barns, Toronto
Rick Lazar & Samba Squad At Toronto's Wychwood Barns this last Sunday, bright sunshine and scores of percussion stars turned out to appreciate and show...