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...
Read Yet Another Excerpt From 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
My buddy David McPherson’s latest book 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts recently hit shelves. To mark the occasion, this week he's letting me share a few of the stories...
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Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | More Cowbell!!
When it comes to cowbell songs, I’d never really considered (Don’t Fear) The Reaper. In fact, before the famous 2000 Saturday Night Live sketch, I never really noticed there...
Read Another Exclusive Excerpt From 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
My buddy David McPherson’s latest book 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts recently hit shelves. To mark the occasion, this week he's letting me share a few of the stories...
Read An Exclusive Excerpt From The New Book 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
My buddy David McPherson’s latest book 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts recently hit shelves. To mark the occasion, this week he's letting me share a few of the stories...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | All Dead, All Dead
I have been guilty of moaning about all these farewell tours, but the sad truth is we're rapidly losing rock 'n' roll's icons. In a few years there won't...
Thunder Pie | Pink Wasp
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | My Complicated Relationship With Bongo Fury
It was such an unusual thing to see in a junk shop — an amateur painting of the cover of Bongo Fury.
My partner and I go to lots of...
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...
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...
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...
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 | Dark Side of the Moon Redux
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually really looking forward to Roger Waters’ re-imagining of Dark Side Of The Moon. We've had an opportunity to hear the...
Thunder Pie | Three Rainbows On A Stringer
Early on, in the first years of the unfolding 1980’s, when my world was simple and plain and lean, I recall walking up on this older guy at the...
20 Questions With Hannah Connolly
We all have baggage. Some of us are just better at carrying it — and letting it go. Hannah Connolly seems to be doing OK on both counts. The...
