Author Archives: Scott James

Image: YouTube Saturday June 22, HBO will premiere Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple. Fresh off its appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film traces the multifacted career of Steven Van Zandt as a pr...

Image: Universal Music Canada The kids in Def Leppard - particularly Joe Elliott - have always been fans of 70s glam rock, and their latest single is a salute to that music - and the guest on it is To...

Image: Sealand Flight Campbell River's Sealand Flight has received Transport Canada approval to begin flight training in their new Pipistrel Velis Electro aircraft - and this Friday, you could be the ...

Image: plantkrauss.com Back in 1929, Memphis Minnie - whose 127th birthday was a week ago - dropped When The Levee Breaks, together with Kansas Joe McCoy. 42 years later, Led Zeppelin reworked the tra...

Image: Bru-nO/Pixabay The album which launched Bruce Springsteen into the stratosphere is forty years old; Born In The U.S.A., album number seven from Bruce, dropped June 04 1984, following two years ...

Image: Stony Plain Records Canada's iconic record label Stony Plain recently signed The Fabulous Thunderbirds, and to mark their 50th anniversary at the end of the month, they've recorded their first ...

Image: Parlophone Records The forthcoming box set, Rock 'N' Roll Star!, which covers David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust era, contains a version of The Who's I Can't Explain which was recorded about a year b...

Image: YouTube If you're a fan of The Memphis Sound, HBO's four part documentary Stax: Soulville USA is pretty much a must-see. In the early 60s and 70s in Memphis, Stax Records appeared out of thin a...

Image: Canvas Media Jesse Roper's new single was once again produced by Gus Van Go, who's also done knob-twiddling for The Sam Roberts Band and others. Word has it that this one, which has hints of Na...

Image: District Of Saanich Saanich has a new mini sweeper, which will be keeping the bike lanes out there pristine, and you're being called on to help name it. About 250 submissions were received by t...