20 Questions With Kelly & Gibson
Earlier this summer, Kelly & Gibson were good enough to share the video for their latest single Chasing Feelings in these pages. Today, I chase down some more information...
Back Stories | My 2009 Interview With Les Claypool
With Les Claypool and Sean Lennon releasing their second Claypool Lennon Delirium album South of Reality this week (look for my review sometime over the weekend), it seemed like...
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...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | I Cast Thee Out!
It used to be that "getting cancelled" was something that only happened to the likes of Manimal, My So-Called Life, The Green Hornet, Archive 81 and The Tick. But...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Most Ontario Record Ever?
For $9, I couldn't resist. My record collection is kind of thin where The Yardbirds are concerned. I have a nice mono pressing of Roger The Engineer and I...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | August/Everywhere?
By AREA RESIDENT and FRED JESKE
It was very nearly August/Everywhere?
After spending four years building the biggest, most captivating door he could build, Jordon Zadorozny finally heard opportunity knocking. At...
20 Questions With Austin Taft
Austin Taft is taking indie metal to a whole new level. In more ways than one. Not only is the multi-talented, multi-tasking Colorado rocker an incredible one-man band —...
20 Questions With Tony D
Tony D shut up and played his guitar on his new instrumental album Speak No Evil, which I showcased HERE back in September. Today, the Toronto fretboard master lets...
Rewinding July | The Best Loudness
You know what they say: If it's too loud, you're too ... something. Honestly, I couldn't make it out above the ringing. Anyway, here are some of the noisier...
Back Stories | My 2008 Interview With Noel Gallagher
Does it feel like it's been 10 years since Oasis broke up? Because it has been. Exactly 10 years, as a matter of fact. On Aug. 28, 2009, years...
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...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Whole Lotta Les
I have been reading Andy Summers’ fantastic memoir One Train Later. It's loaded with stuff I didn't know, including the tidbit that the eventual Police guitarist was the person...
Thunder Pie | Kid In Philly
“People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can...
Rewinding 2023 (So Far) | Tinnitist’s Top Interviews
I spent about 30 years interviewing musicians the old-fashioned way: Talking on the telephone, transcribing the tape (and then, eventually, the digital recording) and turning it all into a...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 19-25
Here are the major album releases, TV appearances, anniversaries and other events coming up in the next seven days. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t...
