Review and Photos by Mike Bax For anyone that arrived late and missed Nile Rodgers and CHIC perform an hour long set of some truly amazing live music, they might not have understood Simon Le Bon’s introduction when Rodgers joined the band on stage to perform ‘Notorious’ and ‘Pressure Off’ mid-way through Duran Duran’s set….
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Hollywood Vampires – Casino Rama, Orillia – July 8th, 2016
Review and photos by Mike Bax “This is why we don’t own nice things.” Alice Cooper to the crowd after Joe Perry shattered his guitar over one of the speakers at the front of the stage to end off ‘My Generation’. Named after Cooper’s 1970s musicians drinking club The Hollywood Vampires, Frontman Alice Cooper along…
Interview with Carla Azar – Autolux, April 7th, 2016
By Mike Bax Carving out their own niche in a musical tapestry that is full of bands and musicians all sounding derivative of someone or something else, there is Autolux. Consisting of musicians Carla Azar, Greg Edwards and Eugene Goreshter, Autolux has put out an album every 6 years since their debut of Future Perfect…
Smashing Pumpkins w Liz Phair – Massey Hall, Toronto – April 12th, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax Smashing Pumpkins is a band that, for me, are two things: 1) an amazing studio band and 2) a disappointing live band. Until last night, that is. The sound and representation of the material presented at Massey Hall this evening sounded superb. Touring In Plainsong as an acoustic-electro evening, Billy…
Interview with Steve Vai (Generation Axe) – March 30th, 2016
By Mike Bax This week, a 26-date tour package called Generation Axe began in Seattle at the Paramount Theatre. Gestating from a long standing idea Steve Vai has been nurturing, Generation Axe features five revered guitarists backed by a veteran supporting band jamming together on songs from each of the artists’ repertoire, along with some…
Pete Yorn – Opera House, Toronto – March 22nd, 2016
Review and Photos by Mike Bax “You know you’re the best thing ever” I can still remember the first time I heard Musicforthemorningafter (Pete Yorn’s 2001 debut), played in snippets over a friend’s car stereo as we drove to a concert together. The songs on that album sounding so incredibly RIGHT in every sense of…
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