Canada’s Crash Test Dummies was a hit even before releasing an album or firming up its five-member lineup. Prior to the release of The Ghosts That Haunt Me, the band had a fan in Cowboy Junkies singer Margo Timmins, who told Rolling Stone in March 1990 that its demo tape was one of her favorite…
Lots of bands have members whose fame endures after their death, but guitarist Steve Fall of Toronto dance-pop quintet Acid Test was famous as a dead man before his life attracted public notice: he played the bothersome corpse in Highway 61, a devilish 1992 black comedy by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Bruce McDonald. Fall’s work on…
It’s an article of faith for many Canadian rock fans that Kingston, Ontario’s Tragically Hip is the best band north of the 49th parallel — or at least the best band that people south of the border have yet to pay serious attention to. The quintet’s chief allure is singer Gordon Downie, who brings an…
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