Tim Narducci

 

 

Tim Narducci is an American born vocalist, guitarist, drummer, producer and studio engineer. Tim plays and has played in a variety of heavy metal and hard rock bands. Has or had produced, co-produced and engineered for other local bands, as well. Tim has been play in bands since the early 80`s and but most notably during the  90`s 2000`s, with bands like Mayhem, Spiralarms, Systematic, Tyrranicide and most recently The Watches. As well as playing in a couple of tribute bands, Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers (ZZ Top) and The Lost Crowes (The Black Crowes) 

 

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Hamilton Guitar Visionary Kyle Pacey Releases Daring New EP “After the Fall”

 

 

There are artists who make music to entertain, and artists who make music to understand the world. Kyle Pacey, the Grammy-nominated Hamilton guitarist, singer, and songwriter, has always belonged firmly in the second category. On After the Fall, his luminous new five-song EP out now, Pacey brings the full force of that lifelong curiosity to bear — spinning R&B heat, jazz-inflected melody, funky locked-in groove, and blues-rooted soul into a cohesive and deeply felt statement about endurance, empathy, and what it means to be alive and paying attention in this moment.

At the center of the collection is the EP’s title track, a piece of breathtaking compositional ambition that deploys improvised jazz-scat phrasing against a driving rhythmic bed to pose the questions that animate the entire project. “What will remain / after the fall,” Pacey sings, his voice both urgent and luminous, before opening the lyric outward to encompass the sweep of human experience: “Farewell my friends now / there’s nowhere to hide — / oh sweet woman / please comfort me.” The song does not offer easy resolution; instead it offers something rarer and more nourishing — the comfort of being asked the right questions in exquisite company.

“What will remain after the fall… oh sweet woman, please comfort me.”

The EP moves through five distinct sonic worlds with the ease of a player who has inhabited all of them for decades. Back Against the Wall leans into rousing blues-rock, its propulsive funk bottom and insistent groove physically lifting the body even as the lyric grapples with the sensation of being hemmed in. Brave New World arrives on a reggae-styled pulse and draws openly from the philosophy of Aldous Huxley — a meditation on personal autonomy and the power each of us holds to chart a new course. I’m Here for You trades in a warm country-blues tenderness, its message of inner strength and self-reliance arriving with the quiet authority of earned wisdom. And Beware, the EP’s most strikingly cinematic moment, conjures a swampy, Lynchian unease — a soulful blues warning about division and the urgent need for common ground, delivered in a growl that would make Tom Waits take notice .

Pacey’s musical authority is built on a foundation that stretches back to lessons under Tony Braden — the celebrated guitarist and teacher who also shaped Kim Mitchell and Ed Bickert — and a run of local and international guitar championships before he turned eighteen. He went on to serve as opening act for the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Hamilton Place, became the first local musician ever to play that storied venue, and built a reputation whose arc runs from an invitation to audition for Chicago to a 2007 Grammy nomination as a member of the John Gora Band. His octave work draws comparison to Wes Montgomery; his full chordal approach recalls Freddie Green and Charlie Christian. After the Fall was recorded at Pine Street Studios in Hamilton, Ontario, with a stellar ensemble of collaborators — Kevin Christoff and Gordon Hall on bass, Michael Sloski, Johnny Winiarz, and Bruno Farrugia on drums, Michael Birth elmer on acoustic guitar, and Ed Roth on keyboards — each song matched to the precise combination of players that best serves its emotional weather.

What sets Pacey apart from the wide field of singer-songwriters working in blues, R&B, and jazz fusion is the particular lens through which he views his subject matter. His lyrics have always been informed by a restless intellectual life — a sustained interest in world events, the visionary culture of the 1960s and ‘70s, metaphysics, philosophy, and the New Thought movement — and After the Fall is his most fully realized expression of those preoccupations to date. From Huxley’s writings on individual agency in Brave New World to the Lynchian surrealism of Beware, Pacey positions contemporary feeling inside a much larger frame, inviting listeners to locate their own experience within the sweep of ideas that have shaped our culture. As broadcaster Kevin Barber has written of Pacey’s work: “He has lived through those times, and the passion and conviction he carries ensures tha t those who get to hear him are treated to something real and good.”

“I am captivated by music that is always changing,” Pacey says of his approach, “and like to incorporate a fusion of popular music genres. I am a very expressive player and like to push boundaries with my unorthodox style.” That restlessness is everywhere in evidence on After the Fall — in the sudden pivot from a jazz scat to a reggae groove, in the blues-country warmth of a song that could sit comfortably on a late-night radio playlist as easily as a Hamilton club stage, in the audacious Huxley reference tucked inside a propulsive beat. The EP is the work of an artist in the full command of his powers, making exactly the music he wants to make, and certain that the world is ready to receive it.

 

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Wasted Wizards

 

We head back to Sweden for the latest release from the young guys from Wasted Wizards, with a new single "Monkey Say, Monkey Do" out on the 6th March 2026. The guys will be in the UK for two shows in May as part of the Mayhem Festival in Nottingham and London. This is a day festival with a number of Scandinavian bands, headlined by HEAT and will include Eclipse, who`s singer Erik, is the father of brothers Leo and Sam.

 

Wasted Wizards is a young Swedish hard rock band formed by brothers Leo (vocals) and Sam Mårtensson (guitar), sons of Erik Mårtensson (Eclipse). Known for a 90s grunge and 80s-influenced sound, they released singles like "Hear Me Out!" and "Monkey See Monkey Do". They are currently active, performing in Sweden, and working on their debut album.

 

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Canadian Blues Music Awards

 

 

The inaugural Canadian Blues Music Awards (CBMA) gala takes place Monday, March 30, 2026 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, bringing together the finest performers in Canadian blues for a landmark national celebration. The evening will feature live performances from nominees and honourees spanning the full breadth of the country’s blues landscape — from roots-drenched acoustic traditions to electrifying contemporary interpretations — with Lifetime Achievement and Industry Person tributes woven throughout the programme. Gala tickets are on sale now at canadianbluesmusicawards.com. Watch the official launch video here.

The Canadian Blues Music Awards is a fully independent, incorporated national not-for-profit organization with an exclusive mandate to govern, develop, and operate Canada’s premier blues recognition programme. The CBMAs are a wholly new creation — not a rebranding or restructuring of any previous programme. The CBMAs operate as a separate entity: the Toronto Blues Society has no role whatsoever in governance, nominations, judging, voting, or any other element of the awards process. The TBS will proudly host the gala ceremony, and that is the full extent of the relationship.

The new programme was built from the ground up. Initially formed in spring 2024 by Brant Zwicker and Cindy McLeod, the CBMA Governing Committee spent more than a year in extensive research, national consultation, and programme development before incorporating as an independent organization. In December 2024, Julie Hill joined the committee, and the completed plan was finalized in May 2025. The result is a programme grounded in transparency, expertise, and coast-to-coast representation: all artist category awards are decided exclusively by a jury panel of industry professionals drawn from a national pool spanning radio, print, labels, engineering, production, promotion, academia, associations, festivals, and venues. Nominees are determined by submission - not nomination - based on qualifying recordings released between September 1, 2023 and September 30, 2025. The sole exception is the Fan Favourite Award, which is open to the public as a write-in vote.

Quisha Wint, Chair of the Toronto Blues Society, has offered her full endorsement of the new programme. “The Canadian Blues Music Awards represents a complete overhaul,” Wint writes. “A whole new programme created to serve the Canadian blues community with greater transparency, fairness, and unity from coast to coast to coast.” With 16 competitive categories recognizing artists, instrumentalists, producers, and industry figures, alongside Lifetime Achievement honours for five foundational contributors to Canadian blues, the CBMAs are positioned to become the gold standard of blues recognition in this country - one that reflects the true depth, diversity, and resilience of the music and the people who make it.

There are many people asking what will the Canadian Blues Music Awards Gala look like this year? Here’s the breakdown: The Gala will be held at The Phoenix Concert Theatre on Monday March 30.2026 7pm start. All 17 Awards will be presented along with six performances sprinkled through the night with an intermission. 

This year’s host will be Danny Marks who will also perform a song. Steve Marriner, Crystal Shawanda, Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne, Brandon Isaak and Dana Wylie (Secondhand Dreamcar) will be the feature performers who will all perform a song each.

The gala backing band ‘Pass the Envelope’ will be run by Manny DeGrandis (MD & Bass) with Quincy Bullen (keyboards), Dave Patel (drums) and new additions Cecile Doo-Kingue (guitar) and Dan Jancar (Sax) Blazing Kitchen will also be in the house serving up tacos during the show There will be an After party but not our typical open jam. We will have Emerging artist nominees Glenn Marais & The Mojo Train, Ollie Owens, JP LeBlanc, plus Secondhand Dreamcar and more to be announced perform a few songs in the main room on the big stage starting immediately after the awards.< /p>

“We will be wrapping up at 11pm so everyone can venture off to other Toronto bars and catch more live music or get to bed for work the next day.” Says event producer and TBS Operations Manager, Manny DeGrandis.

Join the celebration on March 30 at The Phoenix and help honour the extraordinary talent that defines Canadian blues. Tickets at https://torontobluessociety.com/canadian-blues-music-awards-2/

Pil & Bue-Shadowcasters

 

 

Pil & Bue is a two-piece, consisting of Petter Carlsen (the arrow) and Goeran Johansen (the bow).

...a two-piece vastly more than the sum of their parts, their deeply invested fusion of metal and pop-bordering melodic dynamics is given emotional rocketfuel by Petter Carlsen's unrestrained vocals. Sia fronting Gojira is an approximation, but the result is exhilarating and uncontrived, and resonates on every level"- Jonathan Selzer, Metal Hammer UK .

With subtle, but pronounced references to artists like Metallica, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, Anathema and Mars Volta, Pil & Bue delivers “Hard, gloomy & joyful music...” Metal Hammer NO

 

 

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Blonde Rose-Spirits Of The Sun

 

So we head back to Norway this week, seems the guys in Blonde Rose are creating a bit of buzz with their regular retro rock releases. I think it was only about 4 weeks ago, we had the single "Rock N Roll Endeavour", which was very well received. It`s now the turn of "Spirit Of The Sun" that the band have released this week, another quality tune, with their 70`s rock n roll stamp. I also had a former A&R guy for Earache Records, making enquiries about the band about a week ago. So maybe bigger things are in the works for Blonde Rose, I guess it`s a watch this space moment. It`s always nice to hear that some bands are reaching a wider audience with each release, which is what we all do it for!!

 

 

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