Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Last week I had a bash at finding one great song for each artist or group listed in the 21 most-hated of all time. I didn't quite manage it...
20 Questions With Paul Reddick
Back in August, Paul Reddick penned a love letter to Italy with his tellingly titled latest album Alive In Italia. Today, Toronto's Juno-winning blues singer, songwriter and harmonica master...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Musicians Remain The Same
This year my appreciation of Jimmy Page broadened. As he is for millions of others, the guitarist has long been one of my favourites due to his unique, incredible...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Ryan Adams
Since Nov. 5, 2018 is Ryan Adams' 44th birthday, it seemed as good a time as any to replay my 2011 interview with the prolific singer-songwriter. Here it is,...
20 Questions With Weird Tales
A great album title is worth its weight in gold. And Polish psychedelic doom metal trio Weird Tales have one of the best I've come across lately: Y'all Motherfuckers...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Randy Newman
Back in 2011, I was lucky enough to chat with one of my favourite artists — and arguably one of the finest songwriters of his (or any) generation: The...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | OMG Banchee
It was the first freezing rain of the season and I had to pull over, but not because of what I was seeing — but because of what I...
Rewinding August | The Best Rap, Soul & Funk
Sure, you want the funk. You need the funk. You gotta have the funk. But some rap, R&B and soul never hurt either. Here are August's finest, freakiest and...
Rewinding February | The Best Albums of The Month
The shortest month of the year certainly wasn't short on great music. Here's an alphabetical list of the 15 best albums I heard during February, with links to my...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | No. 1 With A Casket
I'm not sure about the first time I remember liking a new song by a dead person — It's either something from Double Fantasy or Elvis Presley’s Guitar Man.
Two...
Thunder Pie | The Matted Heat Form
“The reason life is so strange is that so often people have no choice.”
― William Maxwell
On the bus, you feel the loneliness. It starts in as you pass cornfields...
Back Stories | My Favourite Albums of 1999
I’ve never been very good at sifting through 1,000 album reviews and whittling them all down to a Top 10 list. So here, in typically haphazard form, are my...
Paul McCartney Talks Flaming Pie In New Q&A
No, I did not talk to Paul McCartney. His record label sent me this Q&A about his new Flaming Pie Archive Collection box set, which comes out on July...
Thunder Pie | Three People in Line At The Echo Cluster
One look up and down this street, in all this sunshine, and I connect with it. Some towns are nothing. You climb down out of the van or step...
Thunder Pie | Bruce Springsteen’s Atlantic City
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to...
