Thunder Pie | Scroll of Jawns: Episode 6
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My laptop went dark. It might be dead. I’ve had it for 9 years so I’m not sure what to think. Are laptops supposed to last a long...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Dust In The Wind
The final resting places of beloved musicians routinely turn into tourist attractions and/or the destinations of musical pilgrimage. You've got Elvis Presley’s grave at Graceland, Jim Morrison’s plot at...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Sounds Like Bonzo
Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were seasoned session men by the time Led Zeppelin formed in late 1968. Vocalist Robert Plant has had the most successful and prolific...
Thunder Pie | Pothead
In the woodlot woods, we stood, destined to be forgotten.
“Yo, hand me that bowl, motherfucker,” someone mumbled in a cartoon voice.
The bowl was handed off after a last deep...
Read An Advance Excerpt From Cary Baker’s Book Down On The Corner
Tired of ghost-written music memoirs and fawning bios? Had enough of deep-dive discographies? Bored with overpriced coffee-table tomes? Looking for something new and interesting to read? I have just...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Bring It On Home To Vancouver
The closing track on Led Zeppelin II was one of the first songs tackled for the band's rushed sophomore album — and they started it in a tiny studio...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Tome Is On My Side
If — like me — you're a voracious devourer of music biographies, you know the artist's involvement can just as easily make the book boring, as it can make...
Thunder Pie | Ladder Boy
“We are our choices.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Last week, up a ladder, almost to the top of the scaffolding, I found myself paralyzed by terror. The images of my own body...
Read An Exclusive Excerpt From The New Cheap Trick Bio American Standard
I bought Cheap Trick’s self-titled debut album a few weeks after it came out in 1977. I distinctly remember picking it up at the iconic Tower Records store on...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 14-20 • The Short List: 28 Titles You...
Good thing it's a long weekend: You're going to need that extra time to wade through this roundup of all the essential new releases, reissues, comebacks, lost albums, tribute...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | A Study In 250
This is one of those milestone Stylus Counsel columns. It's the 250th one since I started doing them on the last day of January 2022. As such, I thought...
Thunder Pie | Fall Is For The Dead
It’s fall now. In the yard before dawn there is a sharp edge to the air that wasn’t around a few weeks ago. The morning has metallic tang. The...
The Gleeman Will Have Something Important To Say On Nov. 1
The Gleeman plans to rip up the rule book for mature independent artists with his upcoming debut album Something To Say. At 52, the singer-songwriter hopes to be the...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Hats Off To Roy Harper
It has taken me 35 years to finally look into this Roy Harper dude, a man who seems to have had a serious connection to two of the favourite...
Read An Exclusive Excerpt From Robert Lawson’s New Steve Van Zandt Bio
“Biographies are almost always better than autobiographies, aren’t they?” Steve Van Zandt asked in his 2021 memoir Unrequited Infatuations.
Well, he's about to find out. Ditto the rest of us....
