20 Short Stories About Joe Strummer
When Joe Strummer died on December 22, 2002, no one could believe it...first of all, the guy was only 50...second, this was a guy who ran marathons...third, he’d been strict vegetarian since 1971... ...
7 Dec 202225min
Piano Heroes
Rock’n’roll is built on the electric guitar...well, mostly...and not really in the beginning...in fact, the electric guitar as we know it, didn’t have much to do with the birth of rock at all... The e...
30 Nov 202226min
Introducing "Canadian History Ehx"
From 1964 to 1966, The Beatles played only a handful of shows in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal. Each show was pandemonium but the story of the Beatles in Canada goes far beyond that. From their firs...
24 Nov 202224min
Michael Hutchence: 25 Years Later
Being a music fan was much different in the era before the internet...news traveled slowly often passed through many filters—so many filters, in fact, that a tremendous amount of information was eithe...
23 Nov 202233min
Musicians Battling Disease Part 2
In the old days before the internet, musicians had an aura of mystique about them...we only knew what they wanted us to know or what music writers could ferret out...it was an era of secrets and infor...
16 Nov 202232min
Musicians Battling Disease Part 1
The human body is a wonderful thing, a marvel of evolution, biology, chemistry, and more than a few bits—like consciousness—we don’t understand...and for the most part, this meat bag of water and chem...
9 Nov 202226min
Driven By Her: Women of the 21st Century
There’s no way to sugarcoat it: the music industry has a reputation of being unkind to women...it has been a struggle from the beginning...and even after decades of work, things have evolved to the po...
3 Nov 202229min
The History of Distortion and Feedback
Once upon a time not that long ago, all music was expected to sound clean and clear. Pure, accurate, right in tune. And lo, it was…fine. But with the introduction of the electric guitar and the ampli...
2 Nov 202237min
