Thunder Pie | Dancing In The Dark
I was 12 years old in the Philly suburbs when Bruce Springsteen dropped Dancing In The Dark. It was the first single from his upcoming album Born In The...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Mercury Rev Conundrum
Slowly but surely, I'm replacing my old CD collection with vinyl. I started collecting records when I was seven years old. I never stopped, and still have all my...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel: What If They’d Stayed Together?
There are plenty of musical hotspots in this world — Seattle, Atlanta, Toronto, Montreal, New York, London, Nashville, Memphis, Berlin, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston...
Thunder Pie | Everybody Wants to Rule the World
“There's a room where the light won't find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do I'll be right behind you
So glad we've almost made it
So sad...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Rock ’n’ Roll Air Tragedies
Feb. 3, 1959 has been dubbed The Day The Music Died ever since Don McLean released the insipid American Pie in the fall of 1971. The song references the...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Many Mysteries of Wild In The Streets
I had never heard of Davie Allan and The Arrows. The usually stern-faced ’60s fuzz-guitar legend had somehow evaded my attention all these years, until I spotted a copy...
Rewinding 2024 (So Far) | Area Resident’s Top Albums
In terms of quality new songcraft, it seems like 2024 is off to a strong start. I've already added 12 new albums to my collection and one commemorative re-release...
Rewinding 2024 (So Far) | The Short List: Tinnitist’s Top 104 Albums (Part 2:...
Wait, it's July already? Damn. That was fast. I'd say time flies when you're having fun, but I don't know anybody who's really having any. But even if the...
Rewinding 2024 (So Far) | The Short List: Tinnitist’s Top 104 Albums (Part 3:...
Wait, it's July already? Damn. That was fast. I'd say time flies when you're having fun, but I don't know anybody who's really having any. But even if the...
Rewinding 2024 (So Far) | The Short List: Tinnitist’s Top 104 Albums (Part 4:...
Wait, it's July already? Damn. That was fast. I'd say time flies when you're having fun, but I don't know anybody who's really having any. But even if the...
Rewinding 2024 (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...
Next Week in Music | July 1-7 • 7 New Books
Spend a year with Robyn Hitchcock, make a pre-emptive strike with Radio Birdman, get a piece of Billy Childish’s mind, riff with Earl Slick, prowl Serge Gainsbourg's Paris, and more...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Band Cameos
Mostly, I want to know if any band has more on-screen cameos than Yo La Tengo. The Brooklyn indie-rock trio have been amongst my most-beloved bands for 30 years....
Thunder Pie | Scroll Of Jawns: Episode 2
jawn /jôn/ noun - (chiefly in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan area) used to refer to a thing, place, person, or event that one need not or cannot give a...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Hunting For Tommy Graham
Capitol Records were clearly expecting big things from Toronto singer-songwriter-producer Tommy Graham. I found a copy of his 1970 debut album recently for $3. At first I had no...
