Kim Mitchell — Canada’s Newest Songwriting Hall of Fame Member
By David DeRocco dave@gobeweekly.com https://twitter.com/?lang=en There are currently 50 names in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, the non-profit, bilingual, apolitical and national hall founded in 1998 to effectively deal with the...Chubby Checker: Still Twistin’
By David DeRocco It’s kind of ironic, but if you’re someone who stays in shape attending fitness classes that involve any form of dance or rhythmic movement, you might owe some thanks to a guy nicknamed Chubby. You see, in the annals of rock and roll history, the...Emilio Castillo: Tower of Power’s Head Horn
By David DeRocco As an aspiring 17 year old musician living in Oakland TOWER OF POWER founder Emilio Castillo had a rather modest dream for his career. “When I started out in 1968 there was a band called The Spiders we used to go see that got a gig in Sacramento,”...Eddie Money: Paradise Found
By David DeRocco If you’re heading to Fallsview Casino this weekend chances are you’re going to leave with less money than you walked in with – unless you’ve got two tickets to the musical paradise called the Avalon Ballroom. In that case, you’ll be leaving with...Martin Barre: Taking Roads Less Travelled
BY DAVID DeROCCO It’s a funny thing. You won’t find his name on the list of Top 100 Guitarists compiled by such supposedly learned rock mags as Rolling Stone, Spin or Kerrang!. Nor will you find it on similar lists assembled by musician trade mags like Guitar World...Royal Canadian Legions On Board with Camp Maple Leaf
Sometimes it takes legions of supporters to help make a project successful. Other times, it just takes support from the Legion. This summer, Camp Maple Leaf is happy to welcome branches of the Royal Canadian Legion into the fold as one of our new sponsor groups, which...Jay Leno: Still A Stand Up Guy
Jay Leno: Still A Stand Up Guy By: David DeRocco By David DeRocco“I’m always happy to talk to the enemy, Canada,” laughs legendary late night host and comedian, Jay Leno, acknowledging the fact he’s being interviewed by a citizen from a rogue nation at war with his...Rosanne Cash: A 40 Year Hall of Fame Career Continues
By David DeRocco When it comes to describing music, there’s a funny thing about applying labels; they’re so very easy to defy. Take Rosanne Cash, for example, an artist many people would be quick to label a country artist. That would be a truly narrow definition of...TPOH’s Moe Berg: Finding Happiness
By David DeRocco As an insightful young songwriter, Moe Berg managed – in one perfectly crafted song – to capture the inherent frustrations and stark realities involved in accepting the responsibilities of adulthood. Now, as he sits halfway through his life as a...Taylor Dayne: Beauty and the Beat
By David DeRocco The late 80s and early 90s were a breeding ground for big, mega-selling, larger than life female recording artists who ruled the charts in multiple genres. Madonna, Janet, Whitney, Celine, Mariah, Britney, Alanis and Shania are all names quickly...Crazy “8s” at Niagara Artists Centre
By David DeRocco There are musical performances accompanied by a backdrop of projected images; there are film screenings that conversely feature soundtracks of recorded music. Then there is A NEW PLACE TO DWELL, a multi-media mash up being orchestrated by Canadian...Brighton Rock – Vintage Niagara Metal
BY David DeRocco Greg Fraser and Stevie Skreebs aren’t as young as they were when their band, Brighton Rock, was ruling the Canadian metal charts during their ‘80s heyday. But they’re still wild and free, a mutual state of mind that comes with being at peace with...Ian Thornley – The Process of Revealing SECRETS
By David DeRocco Ian Thornely’s got a new solo album, a packed tour schedule, a sore throat and something he hasn’t had in a long time: performance jitters. Chatting with GoBe Weekly the day after the tour’s first show in Montreal, one where monitor issues required...Tim Hicks: Homegrown Country Comes Back Home
By David DeRocco At the time of our conversation, Tim Hicks and his band are rolling toward Vancouver, three weeks into a rollicking road trip dubbed the “Get A Little Crazy Tour 2015.” Does the “crazy” in the tour name reflect the fact this Canadian country music...Darlene Love: A Star is Reborn
By David DeRocco Darlene Love began her career while still in high school, recording for legendary producer Phil Spector in a little-known girl group called The Blossoms. It’s ironic then in 2015, over half a century into her hard-earned Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride Continues
By David DeRocco Wild things are meant to stay wild, free to roam and wander until Father Time and Mother Earth conspire to turn them to dust. For a rock band that has made “Born to be Wild” their anthem for more than four decades, Steppenwolf is far from ready to be...Protest The Hero: Hard Metal Forged In Canada
By David DeRocco Progressive music, by definition, should always be moving forward, mutating, morphing and transforming into new and exciting hybrids. Take PROTEST THE HERO for example, five friends from Whitby who have evolved into Canada’s pre-eminent progressive...89.1 Reasons To Listen To Country Music
By David DeRocco: It didn’t take a reduction in aerosol cans or lower carbon emissions to help repair the giant hole in the airwaves over Niagara. All it took was a really solid application to the CRTC, two years of legal and administrative finagling, a few months of...Matthew Barber’s Latest Romance
By: David DeRocco Any writer will tell you how cathartic the process of expressing thoughts on paper can be. When a writer is also a musician, there’s always the potential to combine such emotional purging with the recording of some very powerful and...George Thorogood – The Icon Returns
By David DeRocco Call it the circle of life, rock n roll version. August 16, 1977, on the day Elvis Presley lay dying in his bathroom, the American music label Rounder Records — known at the time for distributing obscure American roots...RADIO’S EPIC OUTDOOR FAIL (The WRITE KNIGHT Blog)
Good marketing campaigns begin with a product ready to be marketed. As the Harper government has learned, spending $2.5 million advertising a non-existent Government Jobs Grant program is not a particularly judicious use of limited marketing funds.Even when they have...Getting the Shaft While Mining Sochi Hockey Gold
The biggest hockey shaft found at the Sochi Games isn’t the one carried by Slovakia captain Zdeno Chara. It’s the shaft perpetrated on nationalist hockey fans on both sides of the Atlantic who believe a gold medal confirms international hockey supremacy....Niagara SEO Services
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