Labelle, the trio of Patti LaBelle, Nona Hendryx and Sarah Dash, turned the music world on its head, with their seamless vocalizing (honed singing doo wop in P...
Before his late-career decline, John Martyn was one of the most innovative figures in the British folk-rock firmament, a forerunner of, and influence on, the fr...
Rod Evans, original lead singer of hard-rocking Deep Purple, walked away from the music business in the late 1970s. He didn’t even show up for the ceremony in 2...
After stints in the Soft Boys (with Robyn Hitchcock) and Katrina and the Waves, Kimberley Rew has pursued a solo career and collaborated with bands in his homet...
The talented singer-songwriters Beverley Martyn and Linda Thompson faced an unfair hurdle in their careers: Though accomplished before meeting either of their h...
The influence of professional wrestling on the music industry has seldom been examined. Consider, for starters, the rock bands whose members prance menacingly a...
Financial journalist Lindsay Goldwert saw parallels between the work of dominatrixes and how all the rest of us live our lives. So, she went straight into the c...
Beautiful but uncategorizable music flowed through Lhasa de Sela (1972-2010), whose itinerant, off-the-grid childhood with spiritually-inclined parents allowed ...
Long before legalized same-sex marriage became a reality and the #Metoo movement crashed the patriarchal gates, a women’s music movement existed under radar of ...
There are some who'd say the "real" Fleetwood Mac ended when Peter Green left the band for good in 1972, but what happened two years later was something else en...
The UK hitmaker whose career began before The Beatles and still continues at age 80, was always one hit away from worldwide fame. As it was, Berry became a star...
Fiona McQuarrie has been writing about music for more than 30 years. She was formerly the music critic at the Vancouver Sun and Province newspapers, along with freelancing for a number of publications. She is a contributing writer for Shindig! magazine, and her first book "Song Book: 21 Songs From 10 Years (1964-74)" is available from New Haven Publishing.
