Juliette Jagger
Juliette Jagger is a Canadian music journalist. Her byline has appeared in such media outlets as The Huffington Post, Noisey and This Week In Palestine. She currently is associate editor at CelebrityAccess, and editor of the National Music Centre’s online platform Amplify. She is also the creator of ongoing interview series Origin Stories, which uncovers the stories behind hit songs.
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Comment by Juliette Jagger, juliettejagger.com, January 2012
HIP-HOP ARTISTS are reigning supreme right now because they are the only one's who have real shit. In the midst of this rock drought we ...
Muse: Air Canada Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 10 April 2013
I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT of Muse as being something like the Queen of this generation. I say that because there's something operatic about what they do. ...
Green Day: Air Canada Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 12 April 2013
LATELY I'VE BEEN feeling disillusioned with the state of rock and roll. It seems like only the bands that were already bands long before this ...
Fall Out Boy: How To Make A Comeback Record In 2013
Comment by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 16 April 2013
MAKING a "comeback record," especially these days, is an interesting thing. There's a real science behind it. ...
The Killers: Air Canada Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 16 May 2013
THE KILLERS were always a band that I kept in the back of my mind. I have a few of their records and I liked ...
Bruno Mars: Molson Canadian Amphitheatre, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 5 July 2013
I LOVE AN ARTIST THAT shows up on the scene with an angle. They start us out thinking one thing, while they've really got something ...
Courtney Love: Danforth Music Hall, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 20 July 2013
REGARDLESS of what any of us think we know about the life and times of Courtney Love, it doesn't change the fact that on Saturday ...
Queens of The Stone Age: Air Canda Center, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 12 September 2013
ONE NIGHT a few months back, I was lying in bed at 2 am and I received a phone call from Orange County, California. ...
Arctic Monkeys: Kool Haus, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Anchor Shop, 16 September 2013
WELL, IT'S OFFICIAL, the Arctic Monkeys have their fifth number one on the UK top 40 charts with their latest album AM. That's five for ...
Beyoncé: Could Beyoncé's Visual Album Become The New Commercial Standard?
Comment by Juliette Jagger, A Journal Of Musical Things, 16 December 2013
WHAT DO YOU DO when releasing a record the "old fashioned way" stops working even for those at the top of their game? Well, if ...
Kings of Leon: Air Canada Centre, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 27 February 2014
WE ALL HAVE those albums that signify turning points in our lives and define us as people in particular moments. Personally, the last time I ...
Soundgarden: The 'Black Hole Sun' Also Rises: Soundgarden's Superunknown At 20
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 13 March 2014
BY EARLY 1994, Grunge had already changed the mainstream musical landscape forever. At the decade's onset, the success of albums such as Nirvana's Nevermind and ...
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, Exclaim!, 16 March 2014
A LONE SPOTLIGHT cut through the blackness in the room to reveal Lorde at centre stage, where her presence was immediately overwhelming. ...
Death From Above 1979: Q&A: Death From Above 1979 talk The Physical World and their cult following
Interview by Juliette Jagger, AUX Magazine, 9 September 2014
Ten years after their explosive debut album, Death From Above 1979 get back together to release the high-stakes follow-up, The Physical World ...
Paolo Nutini: Sound Academy, Toronto
Live Review by Juliette Jagger, juliettejagger.com, 15 September 2014
TORONTO RECEIVED a taste of a highly seasoned Paolo Nutini when the Scottish alt-R&B singer-songwriter hit the Sound Academy for a stand out performance last ...
Neil Young's After The Gold Rush
Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 10 October 2014
RELEASED IN THE fall of 1970, Neil Young's After The Gold Rush has over the course of the past 40 plus years become widely known ...
Bedouin Soundclash: Retrospective Reviews: Bedouin Soundclash: Sounding a Mosaic
Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 14 October 2014
RECORDED AT DNA Studios in Montreal and produced by Darryl Jenifer of legendary hardcore punk band Bad Brains, Bedouin Soundclash's breakthrough album, Sounding a Mosaic, ...
Billy Talent: Retrospective Reviews: Billy Talent: Billy Talent
Review by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 15 October 2014
BILLY TALENT'S SELF-TITLED DEBUT — what a fuckin' record that was. ...
Death From Above 1979's You're A Woman, I'm A Machine
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 11 November 2014
It only took one album for the band to establish a cult following, we looked back to see what that record contained. ...
Report and Interview by Juliette Jagger, Huffington Post, 19 February 2015
IN THE '60s and '70s, a should-be-legendary group of studio musicians dubbed the Wrecking Crew played on the era's defining songs. ...
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 13 April 2015
FOR MANY, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival of 1969 is the stuff of legends. For some, like famed rock promoter and pop culture icon ...
Nelly Furtado: Canadian Bands You Should Know: Nelly Furtado
Profile and Interview by Juliette Jagger, nmc.ca, 24 March 2017
AT THE ONSET OF 1998, Nelly Furtado was a fresh-faced, bright-eyed, 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Victoria, BC, sharing a partitioned apartment at Yonge and Finch in ...
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