Author Archives: Scott James

Image: MCA Records The Tragically Hip's debut album Up To Here will be 35 years old on Thursday - it remains one of their most successful, and it's this week's classic album selection. Join Ryan Awram...

Image: Right On Records As they mark twenty years of being a band, The Sheepdogs have dropped a new EP, Paradise Alone - and it's the debut for their very own Right On Records label. The lead single i...

Image: Columbia Records Steel Wheels - album number nineteen from The Rolling Stones - dropped August 29 1989 in North America, and September 11 in the UK; it was the final batch of new music they rec...

Image: Swan Song Records August 22 1979, Led Zeppelin dropped their eighth and final album, In Through The Out Door - their last one before the death of John Bonham the following year, which marked th...

Image: YouTube The late Gord Downie's brother Mike - the same Mike who got a mention in The Tragically Hip's 38 Years Old - put together a four part docuseries chronicling the band's 40 year journey f...

Image: Mercury Records Bachman-Turner Overdrive's Not Fragile, which dropped fifty years ago this month and turned out to be their biggest success, is this week's classic selection; I'll play all nine...

Image: Apple TV+ Eddie Vedder's latest soundtrack contribution appears on the new Apple TV+ series Bad Monkey, which drops Wednesday. It's a cover of Tom Petty's Room At The Top, from his 1995 Echo al...

Image: BC Aviation Museum The people at the BC Aviation Museum tell us that the final flight of the legendary Hawaii Martin Mars water bomber will be happening this Sunday, as it arrives at its final ...

Image: Bad Records Bryan Adams recently launched his own record label, Bad Records - and the first music on it is a double A-side single which was originally written for KISS, back when Bryan was in h...

Image: Fantasy Records Green River - album number three from Creedence Clearwater Revival - dropped August 07 1969. It was the second of three albums the band put out that year, and by the early 90s w...