The James Logan Courier

By Brian McCollum
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

Music might be the universal language. But here's one hard fact about the American cultural conversation: Canadian doesn't always translate.

For every cross-border rock success — Nickelback, Barenaked Ladies, Alanis Morissette — there's an Our Lady Peace, a Great Big Sea, a Sloan — acts that loom large on the Canadian landscape while failing to lure the stateside masses.

You can place Matthew Good firmly atop that list.

By Brian McCollum
Detroit Free Press (MCT)

In a time of high-flying celebrity, when fame is just a sordid scandal or Internet fad away, Three Days Grace has secured success the old-fashioned way: It has earned it.

The Toronto quartet has become a staple of the airwaves and the chart tops after years of slogging it out on the road, steadily honing its melodic hard rock into a formidable radio-ready formula. Having notched a pair of platinum albums and a sturdy batch of hits — "Home," "I Hate (Everything About You)," "Pain" — the group has embarked on its first arena headlining tour, a cross-country run with fellow neo-grunge acts Breaking Benjamin and Seether.

From wikipedia:
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet (March 27, 1863 - April 22, 1933) was a pioneering car manufacturer, who with Charles Stewart Rolls founded the Rolls-Royce company.

Frederick Henry Royce was born in Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, near Peterborough, the son of James and Mary Royce (maiden name King) and was the youngest of their five children. His family ran a flour mill which they leased from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners but the business failed and the family moved to London. His father died in 1872 and Royce had to go out to work selling newspapers and delivering telegrams, having had only one year of formal schooling.

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