by Scott Roos photos by Tracy Creighton (Copperblue Photography and Design) There’s something fitting about an artist returning to where it all started just as things are beginning to take off. For Taya Lebel, that means a September 16 stop at the Rock Trout in Prince Albert, where she’ll share the stage with fellow up-and-coming Canadian country artists Jeremy Grey and Justin Sutton. With the 2026 Canadian Country Music Awards heading to Saskatoon, the evening offers a pretty good snapshot...

by Scott Roos There is something inherently fascinating about watching two people who have spent nearly three decades together try to explain each other. Especially when those two people happen to be Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk. On paper, their story sounds almost impossibly tidy: two successful Canadian musicians who met early in their careers, fell in love, built families together, continued making music and somehow managed to maintain separate identities while becoming one of the...

by Scott Roos photo credits in captions photo by Aaron Richter There was a time when I'll readily admit that Journey was not at all on my radar... It's not that I disliked them. It's just as a self described "metalhead" I just never really considered myself a Journey guy. Then, a little over 20 years ago, I started collecting vinyl again. And, Somewhere along the way, I picked up copies of Escape, Departure and Evolution. Likely at a thrift store or garage sale or something like that, and...