โBe yourself; everyone else is already taken.โ โ Oscar Wilde In heavy metal, as in any walk of life, nothing matters like identity. To know it, to be it, to own who you are, as the great rockโnโroll sage, Wilde, so profoundly observed. And youโd have thought Judas Priest would have owned that down to…
Welcome to this second installment of the Cable Guru, an appreciation series on audio cables and, to a lesser degree, accessories.
They donโt come more musical family than the spanning-four-generations family of 42-year-old cellist Vincent Bรฉlanger. His relativesโ musical accomplishments are too many to be enumerated here, but suffice to say that the musical career that Vincent chose for himself, and the success he achieved in it, are not uncharacteristic of his lineage. Among his own…
By 1967, the Motor City is still monopolizing the music charts and airwaves, cruising full speed ahead, rivaled only by Britain’s Fab Four. But thereโs turbulence and static on the horizon stemming from a strong current blowing from the West Coast, along with inner tensions within Hitsville U.S.A., a.k.a. Motown Records.These combined factors would eventually…
Last you heard from me, husband-and-wife singing duo Delaney & Bonnie were working on their album Home, their first recording on the Memphis-based Stax label, between February and November of 1968. The general idea in the minds of the Stax executives was to create an album that would introduce the world to the โfirst white…
He was home making lunch for the kid when the call came. โI was a stay-at-home dad,โ says Ivan Doroschuk, of the baritone voice and dwarven video. โIโm in Victoria, B.C. (where heโs lived for 20 years) and the phone rings and itโs (Montreal promoter) Rubin Fogel. I hadnโt spoken to him for 10 years.…
Downsizing. Itโs not for everyone. While weโve all been cocooning like hermits and stocking up on toilet paper to wait out the Great Endless Virus(es), our dear friends in The Billionaires Club have been killinโ it like villains. According to Fortune Magazine, while we were being furloughed and our fave bistro went broke, the world’s…
Welcome to our new โBest audio systems for $10,000โ series, in which we ask audio retailers to assemble a great system with an MSRP of around $10,000, cables and accessories included.
In 1966, a gruff-voiced blues singer was looking to put a band together that might finally propel his straggling career to the next level. Joe Cockerโborn John Robert Cocker in 1944โ lived on Tasker Road in the English city of Sheffield. As early as 1960, at the age of sixteen, Cocker was already well under…