Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | What’s That You’re Saying?
Last year, my sweetie cued up a new, promotional Spotify playlist by New York pseudo-punks Bodega. The nine-track playlist is actually just one song — Statuette On The Console,...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Raunchy Ladies
If you were to encounter my partner in traffic, you'd likely hear her before you spot her vehicle. These days, the song at the top of this column is...
Thunder Pie | Running For My Life Tonight
“As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Let’s Fight!
When I was a kid I saw an animated short about a violin duel with the devil. I was fascinated by this idea — having to beat the devil...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Frankenstein Albums
I don't have a problem with The Beatles’ "last song" Now & Then being made and released, Sure, it's a ‘Frankenstein’ track — one cobbled together and brought to...
Thunder Pie | Caught In The Attacks
The wildflowers we grew out back this summer died overnight. I pulled up this morning after I took Milla to school and I could see it had happened when...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Eponymous Uncommonness
I recently did a Classic Album Review of Free's second album — their eponymous 1969 release. While writing the review, it occurred to me (as someone whose debut album...
Thunder Pie | In The Streetlight Under The Monkey Ball Tree: Mini-Essays About Halloween
Fear As A Tonic For Madness
Somewhere deep within some of us there are things we mustn’t speak of. Notions, perhaps we might call them. Others: they insist on fresher...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Softcore For The Swaggart-curious
I can't remember who told me Jimmy Swaggart was Jerry Lee Lewis's cousin. Maybe it was Swaggart himself.
The legendary and infamous televangelist was always on TV during my cable-less...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Speak To Me
My day job is as a radio broadcaster, so my speaking voice is pretty decent — much better than my singing voice. But one thing I've never done on...
Thunder Pie | Night Bird
Night birds come and go without sound. That’s why no one knows about them. The sky being dark, they move unseen, undetected. Unknown. Of course, the moon and the...
20 Questions With Chayce Kennedy
Chayce Kennedy knows what she's after — in more ways than one. As someone who's been in love with music ever since could reach the keys on the piano,...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | I’m Good, It’s OK
I can only think of three mainstream acts where none of the original members have done a solo album or been part of a significant, successful, long-running splinter group:...
Thunder Pie | Kid In Philly
“People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can...
Read Yet Another Excerpt From 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts
My buddy David McPherson’s latest book 101 Fascinating Canadian Music Facts recently hit shelves. To mark the occasion, this week he's letting me share a few of the stories...
