The Washboard Union and Guests perform live during Live Loud at Massey Hall in Toronto. Photo By: Jay Broderick By: Jay Broderick Toronto, Ontario - Massey Hall doesn’t host ordinary nights... and this one wasn’t meant to be! LIVE LOUD, in partnership with Matthew Perry House and Make Music Matter, brought together an almost impossibly stacked lineup of Canadian icons, rock heavyweights, hip‑hop pioneers, and rising voices. The mission: use music and storytelling to break stigma, build...

Rob Zombie performs live at RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto, Canada. Photo By: Jay Broderick By: Jay Broderick Toronto, Canada - As we were becoming men in the late 1980s, early 1990s, we spent a lot of time in our buddy Carey, or Jon's basements. Amongst the rituals was alcohol, watching comedy TV like In Living Color and Get a Life and of course, our fill of MuchMusic's Power Hour, an hour of heavy metal videos. As the 90s took hold, the Power Hour started featuring bands like Alice in Chains...

By: Jay Broderick - Women of Rock... our generation has seen the best of them... the Wilson sisters of Heart, Joan Jett, Lita Ford, and Debbie Harry to name a very small few. As heavy music progressed, all female punk acts like L7 and Bikini Kill were killing it on stage, and now, 25+ years into the 21st century, female musicians like guitarist Nita Strauss, and heavy metal vixens Burning Witches are on top of the world... yet something continues to be wrong... Women musicians are still not...