DIY Discovery | Nat Myers
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...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Long before it was a Top 40 radio station in the nation's capital, Ottawa's CFMO was an easy-listening station. My parents often chose it — not because they liked...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Feb. 11, 2000
Two decades ago, new albums from Primal Scream, Michael Penn, Robert Palmer, Kittie and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say...
Rewinding 2023 | Tinnitist’s Top 123 Albums (Part 6: T-Z)
The older I get, the harder it gets to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm becoming more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
Luther Russell | The Tinnitist Interview
Luther Russell has just realized something very cool about his latest album Medium Cool.
"This is fairly strange," the singer-guitarist, songwriter and producer says from his L.A. home, "but the...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | What’s The Deal With Boney M.?
One thing most of the women in my life have had in common is a defiant and open fondness of Boney M. This month I spent $28 on a...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Pure Pag For Fab People
By the age of 10 or so, I was already a keen enough Beatles fan to be able to decipher the era of the song and which of them...
Next Week In Music | Dec. 24-30
Here are the 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 blame...
Thunder Pie | Gridlock
Slappy sunlight coming down, collapsed trusses of 3pm light breaking in through the miasma, we would run down the valley, me and the kids, in the Honda at Christmastime....
DIY Discovery | Reay
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...
One That Got Away | The Living Things’ Ahead of the Lions
Rock ’n’ roll is a fickle bitch. Always has been. Always will be. For every immortal album that sells a jillion copies and wins a shit-ton of awards, there...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | What You Talkin’ ’Bout, Willis?
I grew up a fan of Elton John, and while most people just love to blather on about what a brilliant lyricist Bernie Taupin is, I've always found his...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Sometimes we keep records forever, not because they're awesome, but because they're special.
For example, the first one you ever owned, or the first one you ever bought with your...
20 Questions With Twin Flames
Twin Flames lit up the site a few weeks back with their video for their revolutionary song Battlefields from their upcoming Omen album (you can check out that post...
Thunder Pie | The God of Ice Cream: Mini Essays about Overeating
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I...
