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Area Resident’s Classic Album Review: Deep Purple | Come Taste The Band

You would actually be well-advised to not put any part of this band in your mouth. Come Taste The Band (1975) and its subsequent tour boasts Deep Purple at...

Classic Album Reviews: Led Zeppelin | How the West Was Won / Led Zeppelin...

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   “Playing live was the...

Classic Album Review: Jesse Malin | The Fine Art of Self-Destruction

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Jesse Malin has come...

Classic Album Review: Lillix | Falling Uphill

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   A band based on...

Classic Album Review: Sam Roberts | We Were Born In A Flame

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   It took just one...

Classic Album Review: Gordon Downie | Battle Of The Nudes

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   On his 2001 solo...

Groover Playlist 210: The Heat Wave Has Arrived

Sébastien Delage is on the case, The Moon In Capricorn live for the weekend, Theraposa get greedy and more in today's submissions from Groover, a platform that connects artists...

Derina Harvey Band Ride The Waves Of Home

Derina Harvey Band are drifting in the Waves Of Home in their new single — showcasing today on Tinnitist. From its opening explosive fiddle riff, to its driving dance-floor chorus,...

Chester Doom Insist They’re Not Far Behind

Chester Doom step up in their new single and video Not Far Behind — showcasing today on Tinnitist. Powerhouse vocalist Josh Best, the frontman of the Atlantic Canadian rockers, wrote...

Trey Joshua Comes On Strong In Fine To Me

Trey Joshua like the way you look in his new single Fine To Me — showcasing today on Tinnitist. Life is short, and in its haste, we must revel. The...

Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • The (Not Very)...

Sometimes you can't win for losing. Next week is definitely not one of those times. There are — to use a technical term — a shit-ton of heavy hitters...

Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • The Long List:...

Are you ready to rock — and reminisce? Well, get ready: The US Festival kicked off exactly 40 years ago, on May 28, 1983. For those too young (or too...

Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • New Books

Mamas and Papas, art and soul, Dante and ducktails, Bleecker Street and The Beatles — and the rest of the new tomes of the week. Read all about ’em:   All...

Next Week in Music | May 29 – June 4 • On TV

The writers' strike continues. So do the reruns. Enjoy (or not):   Monday Sunny War (R) | Jimmy Kimmel Live De La Soul (R) | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Sturgill Simpson (R)...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Save My Babies!

What you're looking at here is my 100th Stylus Counsel column. It's a fairly significant number, so I decided I should commemorate it with a fairly significant piece. Thanks...

Thunder Pie | Dame’s Rocket

In my part of Pennsylvania, the Dame’s Rocket is out. On various roads/ I zip by small waves of it on rolling hillsides/ the whites and the pinks and...

Albums Of The Week: Wolf Eyes | Dreams In Splattered Lines

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Dreams In Splattered Lines fuses together Wolf Eyes’ 25 years of DIY electronics with the avant-garde sensibilities of Fluxus and the granite of dreary Midwestern...

Albums Of The Week: The Bevis Frond | Long Stuff

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Long Stuff was originally issued in 2002 as a CD-only limited edition of 110 copies for members of The Bevis Frond Online Community. It...

Albums Of The Week: Sweat | Who Do They Think They Are?

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Who Do They Think They Are? is the debut album from Pittsburgh-based Swiss-American quartet Sweat. The backstory: After leaving her home in Basel with a hungry...

Albums Of The Week: Kevin Morby | More Photographs (A Continuum)

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Kevin Morby writes (and records, and imagines) at an almost incomparable clip, and his most recent album, This Is A Photograph, studies life, time and...

Albums Of The Week: Live Skull | Party Zero

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Insurrections. Global pandemics. The return of fascism. Climate crises. These are some serious times. But if you’ve got angst in your pants and you need...

Albums Of The Week: The Barnestormers | The Barnestormers

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “What you have right here is rockabilly royalty. They’re global all-stars who swing like a gate. They make the finest finger-poppin’ grooves to shake your...

Albums Of The Week: Arlo Parks | My Soft Machine

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks is returning with her second album My Soft Machine, a deeply personal body of work about...

Albums Of The Week: Joe Perry | Sweetzerland Manifesto MKII

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee and Grammy winner Joe Perry — the lead guitarist, songwriter, and co-producer of Aerosmith and Hollywood Vampires —...

Albums Of The Week: The Dirty Nil | Free Rein To Passions

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “If there’s one rule people should follow when approaching The Dirty Nil, it’s this: Never tell them how to rock ’‘n’ roll. Ontario’s Juno-winning trio...

Albums Of The Week: Sparks | The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte marks Sparks’ first release on the venerable Island Records label in close to five decades, following such classics...

Brooklyn Blackmore | Been There Too: Exclusive Premiere

Brooklyn Blackmore lets sexual assault survivors know she's Been There Too in her unforgettable and uplifting new single — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist. Written by Blackmore and Jordyn Pollard, the Canadian...

Christina Kennedy | San Diego, CA: Exclusive Premiere

Christina Kennedy watches her love head off to San Diego, CA in her hauntingly gorgeous new breakup ballad — premiering exclusively on Tinnitist. The latest single from the up-and-coming teenage Vancouver...

Vanishing Shores Wouldn’t Change A Thing

Vanishing Shores have no regrets in their new single I Wouldn't Change A Thing — showcasing today on Tinnitist. “I wrote the song in response to the question, ‘Does the length...

Getting Hip To The Hip Is Easier Than Ever

“First thing we'd climb a tree. And maybe then we'd talk. Or sit silently. And listen to our thoughts. With illusions of someday. Cast in a golden light. No...

Indie Night In Canada Will Play To Win During CMW

Indie Night In Canada will host its annual artist showcase on June 6, 2023, featuring a lineup of 18 independent artists on two amazing stages during Canadian Music Week in Toronto. The...

LG Breton Is A Little Concerned About You Going Off The Grid

LG Breton isn't so sure that Going Off The Grid is the best thing for you in his new single — showcasing today on Tinnitist. From time to time, everyone imagines...

Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: The Big Nope List

I hate lots of things. Pretty much every single day I find something new to be miserable about — people with their mouths open, shows with constant and manipulative...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 1)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 2)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 3)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 4)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 5)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 6)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

Midweek Mixtape | More Than 130 Songs To Improve Your Mood (Side 7)

There's nothing I can say about the life, death, music, importance and general magnificence of Tina Turner that isn't being voiced elsewhere by smarter, more eloquent people. All I...

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