Rewinding 2022 | Tinnitist’s Top Albums: The Long List
Another year, another bajillion albums, EPs, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, bootlegs and vinyl reissues. Here's every new release that found its way into my ears and onto...
Thunder Pie | Wintersong
The rain is coming down in sheets. As I turn the corner by the church down the street from the house, I see this young mom with an umbrella...
Rewinding 2022 | Tinnitist’s Top Mixtape Tracks: November
Asking me to pick my favourite songs of the year is like asking a competitive eater to name their favourite hot dogs. After the first 25,000, it becomes kind...
Rewinding 2022 | Tinnitist’s Top Albums (Part 2: N-Z)
The older I get, the harder it is to put together a year-end list. Not because I'm getting more musically discriminating in my dotage. Quite the opposite. Every year,...
20 Questions With Demi Ramos
Demi Ramos does not waste time. Yours or hers. Recently, the multi-tasking, fast-rising N.Y.C. pop-rocker got a head start on summer with the exclusive Tinnitist premiere of her energetic...
Rewinding 2023 (So Far) | The Long List
Another six months, 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...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
I’m in the basement, mixing up the Resident … I’ve done seven full-length albums in my basement — including most of my latest release Polycanard, which comes out next...
Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records
After learning their first drummer died, I remember asking my older brother which one of the men on the cover of Who Are You was the dead one. "The...
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...
Musicians I Love to Interview – Or Not
When you write about music for as long as I have — more than 35 years and counting, off and on — you end up interviewing your fair share...
2018 in Review | Tinnitist’s Top Live Albums
Top Pick: Bruce Springsteen | Springsteen on Broadway
TRACKS: 30 (16 songs + 14 introductions)
LENGTH: 148 minutes
YEARS COVERED: 1972-2012
THE STORY: Recorded during Bruce's recent New York theatre residency and released...
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,...
Rewinding October | The Top Blues, Soul & Roots
Van the Man picked up his pen in a big way. The North Mississippi Allstars got on a new roll. The Avetts played politics and made it personal. The...
