Back Stories | My 2012 Interview With Jakob Dylan
A lot can change in nine years. Just ask Jakob Dylan. His latest album Exit Wounds — his first Wallflowers album since 2012’s comeback disc Glad All Over —...
Thunder Pie | Lou Abruzzio’s Final Christmas (Part 1)
“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
— D. H. Lawrence
At exactly 12:03 a.m. EST on Black Friday, 2019, a Long Island man by the name of Lou Abruzzio...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Do Stairway!
A bud of mine recently shared a YouTube link of the audio from Led Zeppelin’s March 16, 1973 show in Vienna, Austria. It was an astounding show, with a...
Back Stories | My 2010 Interview with Rush’s Neil Peart
Like every other Canadian rock fan — and every other drummer who spent decades in a futile quest to play half as well as he did — I was...
DIY Discovery | Tilde
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...
Thunder Pie | The High Lonesome Penns Valley Blues
“I shall not leave these prisoning hills
Though they topple their barren heads to level earth
And the forests slide uprooted out of the sky.
Though the waters of Troublesome, of Trace...
20 Questions With Hollow River
Earlier this summer, pop-punk rapper Hollow River — who also goes by the name of Mark MacDonald — mix fact and fiction in his latest single and video Known...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Outer Limits Of Rod Serling’s Patience
Michael Z. Gordon was just 20 years micold when he formed The Mar-Kets (soon changed to The Marketts) and penned an early, killer surf instrumental — Surfer's Stomp. Within...
Christmas Back Stories | My 2010 Interview With Annie Lennox
In 2010, Eurythmics singer Annie Lennox jumped on the holiday-music bandwagon by releasing the album A Christmas Cornucopia. I was the only Canadian newspaper reporter to interview her about...
20 Questions With Mihi Nihil
If you haven’t come across the wonderfully named Mihi Nihil in these pages yet, you just haven’t been paying attention. The L.A. foursome premiered their video for Falling Star...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Eponymous Uncommonness
I recently did a Classic Album Review of Free's second album — their eponymous 1969 release. While writing the review, it occurred to me (as someone whose debut album...
Back Stories | My 1999 Interview With Steve Albini
Like countless others, I was simultaneously surprised, shocked and saddened to see that Steve Albini died of a heart attack the other day. Surprised because he was only 61....
Rewinding 2019 | The Rock Stars
Every year, another bunch of hipster-doofus youngsters try to rile up the old farts by smugly proclaiming that rock is dead. To which I say: OK, millennial. Instead of...
Rewinding 2024 | Tinnitist’s Top Posts
Sometimes I spend hours (OK, minutes) labouring over a thoughtful review or column that nobody reads. Other times I dash off a couple of sentences, throw together a roundup,...
Back Stories | My 2001 Interview With Jello Biafra
Like every other teenage lunkhead who heard Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, I was a big Dead Kennedys fan back in the ’80s. I even saw them during their...
