Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | What’s Your Favourite Record Label?
Next time Sticker Mule has a deal on T-shirt printing, I think I'm going to finally get one made honouring my favourite record label logo — Parrot Records. The...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: Time Is Swift And Taylor is Money
At the end of February, Taylor Swift officially knocked The Beatles out of No. 1 in a category many probably thought nobody ever would — the most weeks in...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | I’ve Got Blisters On Me Fingers!
The Beach Boys franchise is a freak show. The band announced a new tour in February which will run right through the end of October. There has not been...
Thunder Pie | Suit Made of Stranded Moonlight
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
On my way through the bathroom I notice myself in the orange string lights that dangle...
Too Much Of A Good Thing: 60-Some New Album Announcements
Some days are quiet. Some days are busy. And some days are just freaking nuts.
Today started off the first way. Then I got a whole whack of sponsored posts...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Screech Beaver’s Mean, Mean Pride
It's like, "How much more Canadian can it be?" And the answer is, "None. None more Canadian." The cover of Rush’s 1981 album Moving Pictures is basically the equivalent...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Also Known As…
For a while when I was in high school, one of the handful of TV channels we got in rural Upper Ottawa Valley started showing late-night reruns of Don...
Thunder Pie | Our Dead Name
“There is something seriously, terribly wrong with a person if they manage to get to a certain age — cross a lot of bridges; bury a lot of friends...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Can’t Go Wrong
Last year I reached out to my social media friends for help filling a gap in my record collection. I didn't own any Sun Ra albums, and had no...
20 Questions With Annika Catharina
Annika Catharina isn’t afraid to tackle life's thornier questions. The B.C. country-pop singer-songwriter's latest single What If I, for example, poses some crucial romantic queries to a potential suitor....
20 Questions With Kasia
Kasia is tugging at your Heartstrings (and pulling you onto the dancefloor) with her new single and video. This month, the Vancouver electronic music artist and producer debuted latest...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Till Deaf Do Us Part
I have been reading Geddy Lee's charming, ultra-Canadian new autobiography My Effin' Life, which I picked up as soon as I finished Andy Summers’ incredible One Train Later. Highly...
Thunder Pie | Q&A Vol. 2
Hello. As promised, here is the second half of the Thunder Pie Q&A!!! Thanks again to everyone who wrote me with so many thoughtfully crafted questions or kind words...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Necking
Someone should bring back the term “necking.” Nobody ever uses that anymore. I think it may have been a late-’70s/early-’80s thing. I’m not entirely sure, but I always assumed...
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....
