Jim Barber, Author at Music Life Magazine

To refer to Carl Dixon as a survivor is truly an understatement. The epithet would be applicable for his remarkably durable career as a professional musician, which has now lasted 35 years. To have survived […]

It’s a question I am sure has been asked innumerable times over the past seven or eight years by music journalists and music fans alike: how can so much music, so much dynamic sound and […]

As a way of validating his ‘nerd’ credentials in an epic manner, for the title of his latest album (and seventh as a solo artist) the delightfully enigmatic, refreshingly mercurial, but always brilliant Canadian musician/songwriter […]

While the core members of the stellar heavy metal musical conglomeration known as Metal Allegiance are not keen on using the term ‘supergroup’ to describe their project, it’s pretty hard not to do so when […]

Even Jeff Burrows had to admit shaking his head the first time he realized that 2015 would mark the 20th anniversary of his band’s breakout album. Burrows is a co-founder and drummer for the dynamic […]