20 Questions With Malacoda
Malacoda are about to unleash chaos — more specifically, Crawling Chaos, the Toronto metal crew's latest EP. It's the reconfigured band’s first new release since 2018’s Restless Dreams, blending...
Rewinding June | The Best Oldies
Everything old is new again — eventually. Here are the best compilations and reissues that came out in June, listed in alphabetical order. Just click on the cover pictures...
Rewinding July | The Best Pop
Spoiler alert: I don't even spend a lot of time trying to keep up with the endless onslaught of non-threatening boys and interchangeable starlets trying to monetize their 15...
20 Questions With Tricia Fitz
Tricia Fitz plays by her own rules. If she even has any. The Brazilian-born Toronto singer-songwriter's sound is a wildly adventurous, gleefully colourful and irrepressibly mischievous blend of pop,...
Rewinding 2019 | From Beyond & Back
Theses artists are gone, but their musical legacies live on — sometimes with a little help from fellow artists. Here are the best and the rest of this year's...
Rewinding 2021 | Canadian Music
Some of these categories are easy. Others are harder than calculus. This one was incredibly difficult — mostly because there were so many excellent releases this year. I went...
DIY Discovery | JJ’s Music Retaliation (Part 3)
Some musicians are eccentric. Others are eclectic. Still others are enigmatic. But few combine all those qualities — along with several other brilliantly bizarre traits — quite like the...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
My favourite record store's website had a Canada-Soviet Union 1972 Summit Series commemorative album on offer recently. Gotta admit, I was tempted. I already have five hockey-related titles in...
Rewinding 2019 | The Most Picturesque Soundtracks
I can't remember the last time I was in a movie theatre (or even wanted to be). But that doesn't stop me from checking out their soundtracks. The increasing...
Back Stories | My 2011 + 2012 Interviews With Brian Wilson
The new documentary Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road is something of a trip down memory lane for me.
No, I have never chaufeurred the beloved Beach Boys leader and pop...
Rewinding 2021 | Jazz Albums
I didn't listen to as much jazz as I wanted to this year. But I think I managed to get through enough of the major releases to justify this...
Rewinding 2019 | The Wonderfully Weird
Some people like their music to drive straight down the middle of the road. I can dig that — but I can also get behind something that comes straight...
Back Stories: My 2002 Interview With Nick Lowe
Back in 2002, I was lucky enough to chat with the one and only Nick Lowe, who turned out to be just as witty and charming as you would...
20 Questions With Tony D
Tony D shut up and played his guitar on his new instrumental album Speak No Evil, which I showcased HERE back in September. Today, the Toronto fretboard master lets...
Back Stories | My 2015 Interview With Roger Waters
Roger Waters speaks his mind. For better or worse.
That's obvious to anyone who's read, watched or heard an interview with the opinionated, mercurial singer-songwriter and former Pink Floyd member....
