Thunder Pie | Raw Power
The past few days have found me wrestling with monsters. Big questions, I mean. Important things to me that maybe don’t add up to much for others but mean...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Insane In The Campaign
I recently did something I've never done before — watched a live broadcast of an American political event. Specifically, I tuned in for the final night of the Democratic...
20 Questions With Jeremy Dion
Jeremy Dion doesn't waste any time. Why, just last week the Colorado singer-songwriter and licensed therapist debuted his new single Bend In The Middle — the buoyant title track...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Might As Well Go For A Soda
A record shop buddy of mine and I were discussing the unparalleled excellence of Ian Paice the other day. The Deep Purple drummer is perhaps my favourite in rock....
Thunder Pie | Scroll of Jawns: Episode 4
jawn /jôn/ noun (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific...
Concert Review: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard | Toronto, Aug. 21, 2024
Back in the ’80s, Keith Richards once described Tom Waits as "a great bunch of guys.” Whenever people ask me what King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard sound like,...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Mahalo For The Memories
As a frequent peruser of thrift-shop record stacks, I can say with some degree of certainty that the addition of Hawaii as the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Gimme Shelter
In the past few months I've read books about Sly & The Family Stone, Moby Grape, The Rolling Stones and Black Sabbath. In each of these, there's a major...
Thunder Pie | Me And You, Drinking A Forty, Up On The Rainbow Bridge...
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
It’s 9 on Thursday morning. I’m in the yard, bare feet in the fat green grass, as Angus, the silver lab, is...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Music of Sesame Street
Many of us grew up with Sesame Street. One of the big components of the show has always been music — and I think the stuff from my childhood...
Thunder Pie | Ron To Parts
“This is my child, he said.
I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair.
That is my job.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I began to notice things in the summer...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The People With The Dirt
I have been reading Sly Stone’s recent memoir, Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir, and it's got me going down a rabbit hole about Hank "Bubba"...
Thunder Pie | Scroll of Jawns: Episode 3
jawn /jôn/ noun (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a specific...
A Completely Unsolicited Suggestion For Musicians
Overheard at the band meeting: “Shit! We paid that publicist thousands of dollars to send our album to critics and bloggers, but nobody wrote about us. How come?”
Well, maybe...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Clapping For The Wolfman
My first record player was a hand-me-down 1960s Mickey Mouse one — in a white plastic shell case. I used this from the time I was four years old...
