DIY Discovery | Tilde
Most of the music I hear is sent to me by labels and publicists. But there's nothing like getting it straight from the source. Welcome to the latest instalment...
DIY Discovery | JJ’s Music Retaliation (Part 4)
Some musicians are eccentric. Others are eclectic. Still others are enigmatic. But few combine all those qualities — along with several other brilliantly bizarre traits — quite like the...
DIY Discovery | Patty PerShayla & The Mayhaps
Most of the music I hear is sent to me by labels and publicists. But there’s nothing like getting it straight from the source. Welcome to the latest instalment...
Rewinding 2024 (So Far) | The Long List
Another six months, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here's every title that found its way into my ears and onto...
Thunder Pie | Powder Burns: A Pocket-Sized Essay Collection
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My left hand is numb lately. My whole left arm feels strange to be honest. It started a few weeks ago, just when the mega rapid heartbeat days from...
Thunder Pie | In The Streetlight Under The Monkey Ball Tree: Mini-Essays About Halloween
Fear As A Tonic For Madness
Somewhere deep within some of us there are things we mustn’t speak of. Notions, perhaps we might call them. Others: they insist on fresher...
DIY Discovery | Rare Americans
Most of the music I hear is sent to me by labels and publicists. But there's nothing like getting it straight from the source. Welcome to the latest instalment...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Son Of Dracula
In 1972, Harry Nilsson made a bonkers followup to his masterpiece Nilsson Schmilsson called Son of Schmilsson. It featured him on the cover dressed as Dracula — standing atop a...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Hall Passes & Fails
Rush waited 15 years to get into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame. At the time, they were still an active, touring band with a new album out....
Thunder Pie | With Angels & Dark Angels
“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
— Cormac McCarthy
Saturday morning I woke up early to get ready for the King. Big...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Pink Floyd & Montreal
Pink Floyd had a complicated relationship with Montreal. We often think of the city, and the province of Quebec in general, as a historically safe space for prog bands....
20 Questions With Chris Grey
A few weeks back, Chris Grey shared his latest video and single Reasons on the site. Today, the up-and-coming alt-R&B popster tackles my unreasonable questions. Read all about it:
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Rewinding August | The Best Oldies
Everything old is new again — eventually. Here are the best compilations and reissues that came out in August, listed in alphabetical order. Just click on the cover pictures...
Thunder Pie | Pothead
In the woodlot woods, we stood, destined to be forgotten.
“Yo, hand me that bowl, motherfucker,” someone mumbled in a cartoon voice.
The bowl was handed off after a last deep...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Excuse Me While I Bootleg This Guy
I love feeding-frenzy records. These are the ones which come out after someone has become a star — usually involving their early studio works or unofficial material — and...
