Back Stories | My 2010 Interview With Chrissie Hynde
We've all said we have no intention of doing something or other — and then turned around and done it. Even Chrissie Hynde. Back when I interviewed The Pretenders’...
20 Questions With Tucker Lane’s Leslie Stanwyck
Tucker Lane wound their way into these pages in the fall with their Sheryl Crow-ish single and video Paper Wings. You can read more about that HERE. Today, frontwoman...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Wanda Jackson
Rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson announced her retirement from performing earlier this week. At age 81, after more than 60 years on the road, I figure she's earned a break...
Read A Chapter Of Robert Lawson’s Definitive New Guess Who Listener’s Guide Wheatfield Empire
Canadian rock scribe and former Winnipegger Robert Lawson has just published Wheatfield Empire: The Listener's Guide To The Guess Who, an extensively researched, exhaustively detailed and superbly written deep...
2018 in Review | Tinnitist’s Top Videos
When musicians ask me what they should do to get more people to check out their work, I always say the same thing: Make a video. Because if there's...
20 Questions With Greg Rider
Back in June, Greg Rider was good enough to share his latest track One Town Away in these pages. (You can read about it HERE.) Today, the Hamilton country...
Back Stories | My 2011 Interview With Lemmy from Motörhead
Like any music journalist, I've been asked the same question countless times: Who are the coolest rock stars you've interviewed? Lemmy from Motörhead is always close to the top...
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...
20 Questions With TheFatRat
TheFatRat came to play — and to win. The German electronica artist, producer and DJ — known for songs like Unity, Monody (ft. Laura Brehm) and Fly Away (ft....
20 Questions With Unpinnable Butterflies’ Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
Gabriel Judet-Weinshel is spreading his wings again. The high-flying singer and songwriter behind the musical collective Unpinnable Butterflies has just released his must-hear sophomore album Radio Ocean, a wonderfully...
Back Stories | Il Divo Live In Concert
I just read that Carlos Marin, the Latin lover of long-running popera outfit Il Divo, died Sunday at age 53 of complications from COVID. I never met or spoke...
20 Questions With Star2
Star2 has big dreams — but the reality is he's already come a long way.
The Asian-American singer, songwriter and rapper from San Diego was born into a refugee camp...
Coney Hatch’s Andy Curran | The Tinnitist Interview
With Coney Hatch, there's a second time for everything.
Some 35 years after opening for Iron Maiden on their World Piece Tour, the Can-rock vets are right back where they...
DIY Discovery | Pterodactyl Problems
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...
19 Albums I Definitely Want to Hear in 2019 (& 500 More That I...
If one of your resolutions is to listen to more music in 2019, you're in luck: There's no shortage of stuff coming down the pipe. After sifting through umpteen...
