Johnston Farrow

Rose Cousins feels like throwing up. Although she has years of experience under her belt, she’s feeling a bit queasy with all that’s going on in her life surrounding the upcoming release of her first full-length album, If You Were for Me. “It’s exciting but it’s also overwhelming,” the 29-year-old singer-songwriter says. “One, with the […]

It’s inevitable that a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg will have to get used to being on the road in order to further his or her career. Of course, travelling to new places is bound to turn up some strange situations, especially when a journalist is trying to track you down for a last minute interview. “I’m […]

The young band is a joy to behold. Not yet tainted by egos, inter-band power struggles or the hardships of the business, meeting a group of fresh musicians is something akin to walking on a beach never seen by another person. In its collective life, The Grass is close to a deserted island. The seven-piece […]

Welcome to the hype machine, experienced by the select few. In this case, an artist works long and hard in the underground scene, self-producing singles and mixtapes of him rapping over other people’s beats. Along the way, someone notices and signs him to a record deal, which falls through in the Napster age of major […]

By day, he’s Mr. Roberts, teaching social studies and gym to Fairview Junior High students. When night falls, he’s Devin D, a promoter and DJ spinning high-octane house tracks to the night-clubbing masses. It’s an alter ego Devin Roberts takes seriously, as he sets off on a multi-city US tour after the release of his […]

Full of raw talent, hip-hop and R&B enthusiast Kaleb Simmonds took the country by storm in 2004, infusing AOR radio hits with an aesthetic he learned on the streets and in the churches of Dartmouth. Over two years on after his top-seven placing on Canadian Idol, the 23-year-old artist is finally ready to take on […]

After years of playing behind charismatic front men, Pamela McInnis decided it was her turn to take the lead. A talented songwriter in her own right, she raised the money to record an album and left her regular gigs in two established local bands behind. The shadowy bass player in well-known Halifax acts the Museum […]

God bless the drummer. The person burdened with the task of keeping other band members in time so things don’t get messy is usually the one most ignored when it comes to the spotlight. Leave it to the person singing about his personal issues or the guy indulging in a way-too-long guitar solo to get […]

Philip Clark is a strange guy. On the surface he’s soft-spoken and friendly. As a performer, however, he transforms into a mad scientist behind a bank of sound boxes and keyboards, dancing to his self-generated beats like an extra on the Mike Myers Saturday Night Live skit “Sprockets,” imploring others to join him. The bespectacled, […]