Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I’ve always been fascinated by the inner groove. You know — the inside, non-music part of the record where the grooves end and your stylus starts kicking up against...
Rewinding 2021 | World Music
It's not a small world after all. It's a big-ass planet with more music than any one person could ever hope to hear — never mind compare and contrast...
Thunder Pie | The Walkin’ Talkin’ Two Tavern Hams in a Past Life Country...
“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
— E.L. Doctorow
Moving onto the porch, out into the sharp morning, timing the school bus, trying to mess with the gap with...
Thunder Pie | A Christmas Special
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Taking A Look Inside Take A Look Inside
According to Discogs, there are 316 people who wish they had my OG copy of Take A Look Inside by The Folk Implosion. Joyful Noise Recordings are banking on...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Be honest, who thought Debbie Harry was Blondie? I sure did. Made sense, right? There was also that cartoon in the funny pages of the newspaper called Blondie, the...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Maybe Read That Out Loud
When my kids were born and we were picking baby names, I had a little exercise — first try the name out in a series of rhymes to make...
Thunder Pie: Two Wood Boxes Lyin’ Side By Side
“You are wonderful.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle, at age 71, standing in his garden one summer afternoon, turned to his wife and said, simply, “You are wonderful.”
Then he clutched his...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Put Your Name On It
I can recite from memory every single record in my brother John’s collection from the time he was in high school and I was just a little kid. My...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Pink Floyd & Montreal
Pink Floyd had a complicated relationship with Montreal. We often think of the city, and the province of Quebec in general, as a historically safe space for prog bands....
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,...
Area Resident Shares His Record Store Day Want List
If you have any money left after buying copies of my new album Phosphene (out April 21 on cassette and CD, and in a few months on vinyl), there...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Signature Series
I have always been the guy in the band who had no idea what the "theory nerds" were talking about. Well, OK — I know they're not nerds, but...
Thunder Pie | Borrowed Fire / You Should Pay Me Back
“If you practice writing constantly, you can start to speak in poetry form and so whenever you feel like writing something, all you have to do is immediately write...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | One & Done
What do Gary Cherone and The Littlest Hobo have in common? Until tomorrow, they'll just keep movin' on. The lead vocalist made just one album with Van Halen, the...
