20 Questions With Ash & Eric
If there's one thing you can be sure of these days, it's this: You can't be sure of anything these days. Like countless others, Ash & Eric have learned...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
Sometimes we keep records forever, not because they're awesome, but because they're special.
For example, the first one you ever owned, or the first one you ever bought with your...
20 Questions With Olivia Wik
Olivia Wik is stepping into the spotlight with her new single Let's Dance. Written by the Canadian singer-songwriter and produced by Towers (the duo of Brad Simons and Brandon...
20 Questions With Opal Canyon
Sometimes, two heads really are better. Case in point: Opal Canyon’s Debra DeMuth and Dave Houghton. The folksy Massachusetts duo met in 2012 when budding singer-songwriter DeMuth went to...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
For the most part, I keep just a single copy of any likeable or collectible album. I don't hoard. I sell 'em off.
For the most part.
There's exceptions.
Besides saving my...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
It's almost exactly a year since I joined Discogs.
The principal reason was to catalogue my many records, tapes and CDs — and, to a lesser degree, with any luck,...
Back Stories | Remembering Buddy Holly
I am plenty old. But not quite old enough to have seen Buddy Holly perform. Or to remember the day he died. Thankfully, I am lucky enough to have...
Back Stories | Covering Buddy Holly Day in Los Angeles, 2011
Several years ago, on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday, I was lucky enough to go to Los Angeles to cover several events celebrating his life and...
20 Questions With Douglas Wayne
Douglas Wayne tells it like it is. Even about himself. Hell, especially about himself.
“Y’all have heard the saying ‘three chords and the truth,’ ” the East Nashville singer-songwriter says....
Introducing Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
If you've spent any time lurking around this place, you've probably come across music by Area Resident. And you've probably been as impressed as I am — by both...
Back Stories | My 2012 Interview With Meat Loaf
B ack in 2012, I had the opportunity to talk to the one and only Meat Loaf. To be fair, I didn't get to do much talking — Meat...
Rewinding 2021 | Tinnitist’s Top Posts
Sometimes I spend hours (OK, minutes) labouring over a thoughtful review that nobody reads. Other times I dash off a couple of sentences, throw together a roundup, edit a...
Rewinding 2021 | The Long List
Another year, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here's every title that found its way into my ears and onto the...
Rewinding 2021 | Tinnitist’s Top Albums
The older I get, the harder it is to put together these year-end lists. But not because I'm getting more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite; every...
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...
