Canadian music veteran Alan Doyle shows a new side

 While Alan Doyle's projects have led him through folk, rock and pop music, his latest EP sees his love for country coming through the most. With a cast of co-writers, Rough Side Out has Doyle balancing strong creative friendships with ambitious firsts in his career. We caught up with Doyle

Looking Back, Gazing Ahead — It’s all Beautiful to Alan Doyle

 “They came to see you. So you be you and nobody else,” Gord Downie once told Alan Doyle. They are words he’s never forgotten. Words that remain as the one time member of Great Big Sea, Canada’s biggest party band, continues his career as a solo musician. Once, in what

Dean Brody’s Beautiful Freakshow

 Canadian country sensation Dean Brody isn’t afraid of taking a few risks every now and then. That’s not just talk. He’ll back it up with a chainsaw solo! Noisy cutting tools aside, Brody’s risk tolerance is as much a part of him as is his guitar, cowboy hat and a

From the Rock to the Capital, Séan McCann’s Road to Recovery: Part 1

 Photos by Dave Howells / Artwork by Meaghan Smith Séan McCann stood facing the two men he’d spent 20 years of his life with. As musicians, they travelled miles together for hundreds of nights in song. Now they were silent. It was two months before a tour that would celebrate their band. Soon the