20 Questions With Maddisun
Maddisun is a happy camper. In every sense of the term. The up-and-coming small-town B.C. singer-songwriter loves being outdoors, claims she never gets angry, and only writes positive songs....
Thunder Pie | At the End, You’re Just Going to Feel the Good Breeze...
“Forever is composed of nows.” — Emily Dickinson
Like fools, we drag the bikes out of the basement in the last week of summer. Their chains are all Stage 3...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Twice Luba has surprised me. The first time was when she was on a Canada Day concert bill along with The Box, Tragically Hip, Kim Mitchell and (I think)...
Back Stories | My 2016 Interview With Brendon Urie Of Panic! At The Disco
Brendon Urie is proof that nice guys don't have to finish last. I've had the pleasure of interviewing the Panic! At the Disco leader a few times over the...
Thunder Pie | The Kid Can Float
“If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.”
— Rohinton Mistry
At...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
My first kindergarten report card had a lengthy paragraph about me not playing well with others. Years later, I was kicked out of a band because they decided to...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
As a kid, I was only familiar with the Nazareth version of This Flight Tonight, rather than the Joni Mitchell original.
The Nazareth one was on at least one of...
Thunder Pie | The Walkin’ Talkin’ American Mongoose Blues
One summer evening in 1984, feeling good with a belly full of flounder and fries, I flung the screen door open, moved with the swiftness across our front porch,...
20 Questions With Joanna Pearl
Joanna Pearl has been shining lately. The California singer-songwriter just made a high-profile appearance on Chicago’s single The Mermaid (Sereia Do Mar), lending her sweetly flowing background vocals to...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
As a musician, I use Spotify for marketing — no reasonable indie artist like me would ever expect to get rich and famous on such a platform. As a...
Thunder Pie | We Don’t Even Try
“The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.”
— Bruce Springsteen
In the darkness of Ridge Avenue, I would stand there like a...
Thunder Pie | The Ballad of the Nightmare Kid
“I’ll split you in two.” — Freddy Krueger
The other night, deep in the dark, way after the bats had flown out of the holes in the eaves and the...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Long before it was a Top 40 radio station in the nation's capital, Ottawa's CFMO was an easy-listening station. My parents often chose it — not because they liked...
20 Questions With MONTE
Some bands make music from the heart. Others craft songs directly from the soul. New York pop-punk power-trio MONTE launch their crunchy little nuggets “straight from the groin,” according...
Thunder Pie | The Lonesome Death of William McClure
Moments of their secret life together burst like stars upon his memory.
― James Joyce, The Dead
One summer he appeared on the sidewalk, out of some kind of past that...
