by Sean Passmore | Oct 5, 2025 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF, Blog, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine, The Vinyl Shoppe
The Legacy of Kent McClard: The Unseen Hand Behind Rage Against the Machine In the chronicles of rock history, certain names reverberate with the intensity of the music itself, clutch figures who spark innovation and define movements. But one such name is not Kent...
by Sean Passmore | Oct 2, 2025 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF, Blog, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine, The Definitive Version Series
The Unlikely Story of William Pester, eden ahbez, and Gypsy Boots In the early part of the 20th century, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing America, three mysterious, long haired, bearded proto-hippies eerily emerged out of the California desert, each...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 24, 2025 | Blog, Music U Need 2 No, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine, The Most Important Bands Of The 21st Century
If you haven’t heard it by now, Fredericton, New Brunswick power trio Motherhood is that town’s self described longest running remedial Math Rock band. Ever. And they just celebrated a big one this past Summer. Much has changed for lead vocalist/guitarist Brydon...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 21, 2025 | Album of the Week, Blog, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine
Album Of The Week for the week of September 28, 2025 Nominated for Classical Recording of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards, “Glass House Dancing” by renowned Canadian pianist Sarah Hagen, is an exquisite album of finely curated classical music...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 21, 2025 | Blog, Our Latest Podcast, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine
Due to breaking news concerning the fate of Northern Ireland, Belfast based rap group Kneecap and their battle with the Canadian government who have barred them from entering the country to perform four October 2025 concerts in Toronto and Vancouver, Rock N...
by Sean Passmore | Sep 21, 2025 | Academy Of The Rock N Roll AF, Blog, Rock N Roll Fashionista Magazine
Erik Satie (1866-1925) was a French composer and pianist. At the age of 13 his stepmother, a pianist and composer herself, enrolled the young Satie in the Paris Conservatoire. Satie strongly disliked the institution, which he described as “a vast, very...
