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...
Back Stories | Covering Buddy Holly Day in Los Angeles, 2011
Several years ago, on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday, I was lucky enough to go to Los Angeles to cover several events celebrating his life and...
Back Stories | My 2011 Feature on Robert Johnson’s 100th Birthday
Since May 8 is blues icon Robert Johnson’s birthday, it seems like a good time to resurrect this piece I wrote back in 2011 for his centenary. In hindsight,...
Back Stories | My Unedited 2011 Interview With Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason
Sept. 15 is an eventful date in the world of Pink Floyd. On Sept. 15 1975, Wish You Were Here was released in the U.K., three days after its...
20 Questions With Greg Rider
Back in June, Greg Rider was good enough to share his latest track One Town Away in these pages. (You can read about it HERE.) Today, the Hamilton country...
Forest Robots | Exclusive Album & Short Film Premieres
Forest Robots paints a colourful fall landscape with his new album and short film — premiering exclusively (and simultaneously) on Tinnitist.
Times When I Know You'll Watch The Sky, the...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Johnny Winter
Blues guitar hero Johnny Winter would have turned 78 years old today (Feb. 23, 2022). I was lucky enough to talk to him back in 2011, when he was...
20 Questions With Wood Willow
Wood Willow are about to make their intentions known. On April 22, the Oklahoma City roots outfit founded and fronted by singer-guitarist Joel Parks and singer-mandolin player Becca Herrod...
20 Questions With Tucker Lane’s Leslie Stanwyck
Tucker Lane wound their way into these pages in the fall with their Sheryl Crow-ish single and video Paper Wings. You can read more about that HERE. Today, frontwoman...
20 Questions With Elyse Saunders
Elyse Saunders is ready to break free. The rising country singer-songwriter from Peterborough, Ont., says her upcoming third album — fittingly titled Free — will live up to its...
Rewinding 2019 | The Rock Stars
Every year, another bunch of hipster-doofus youngsters try to rile up the old farts by smugly proclaiming that rock is dead. To which I say: OK, millennial. Instead of...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Bands With Fake Accents
Man, we used to really laugh at Klaatu. No question the late ’70s Canadian band had some great songs — and even a fairly major hit, made even bigger...
Rewinding 2019 | The Top Videos
I have said it before. I am saying it again: If there's one thing I've learned from running this site, it's that people love music videos. And here's the...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
We have a record wall at my house — near the entranceway, in our music room. There's 11 little shelves to hold an album, and we try to change...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: Artists At The End Of The Road
“So I went to the doctor, see what he could give me
He said, ‘Son, son, you've gone too far.’ ”
— Black Sabbath, Fairies Wear Boots
It was a little heartbreaking...
