By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett The last time I saw Steve Earle he thanked Canada for making him a rock’n’roll star. Once hailed as the saviour of country music back in the mid-’80s, Copperhead Road in 1988 morphed Earle into a bona fide rock star. “From the beginning I realized I wasn’t going to have […]
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Scooch over, AC/DC! Hard-rockers Airbourne are new thunder from Down Under
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett True story: I was chasing a bat in my Montreal apartment the very night that Australia’s legendary hard-rocking boogie band Airbourne was headlining Le National back in 2008. I missed that show, but the next time Airbourne came to town – opening for the nastiest, skankiest rock’n’roll sideshow […]
Pop phenom Mika on new album and tour, his idol Freddie Mercury and the showbiz closet
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up! @bugsburnett British pop star Mika came out as a gay man in an interview with Instinct magazine last autumn. “If you ask me am I gay, I say yeah. Are these [new] songs about my relationship with a man? I say yeah. And it’s only through my music that […]
Folk-rock icons Indigo Girls reflect on storied career on eve of Montreal concert
By Richard Burnett for Curtains Up @bugsburnett Amy Ray remembers the day she and her Indigo Girls musical partner Emily Saliers opened up for the Grateful Dead in front of tens of thousands of Deadheads. “We’ve been touring for [nearly] 30 years and that really remains the most memorable concert for me,” Ray says. “I […]