Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Excuse Me While I Bootleg This Guy
I love feeding-frenzy records. These are the ones which come out after someone has become a star — usually involving their early studio works or unofficial material — and...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Pure Pag For Fab People
By the age of 10 or so, I was already a keen enough Beatles fan to be able to decipher the era of the song and which of them...
Thunder Pie | The God of Ice Cream: Mini Essays about Overeating
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | The Most Ontario Record Ever?
For $9, I couldn't resist. My record collection is kind of thin where The Yardbirds are concerned. I have a nice mono pressing of Roger The Engineer and I...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Dark Side of the Moon Redux
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually really looking forward to Roger Waters’ re-imagining of Dark Side Of The Moon. We've had an opportunity to hear the...
Thunder Pie | Three Rainbows On A Stringer
Early on, in the first years of the unfolding 1980’s, when my world was simple and plain and lean, I recall walking up on this older guy at the...
20 Questions With Hannah Connolly
We all have baggage. Some of us are just better at carrying it — and letting it go. Hannah Connolly seems to be doing OK on both counts. The...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | First Pembroke, Then THE WORLD!
When we were kids, my best friend's parents owned our small town's lone music store. Jordon Zadorozny (later of Blinker The Star) and I spent a lot of time...
Read An Exclusive Excerpt From Bad Gardening Advice: Winnipeg Music Reviews From Artist Redacted...
I am ashamed of many things in this life. So many things, in fact, that naming them all would easily consume every moment I have left in this cursed...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Surely Not EVERYBODY Was Kung-Fu Fighting?
Somehow, for some reason, I ended up watching Death Race 2000 the other night. I'd never seen the 1975 cult classic starring David Carradine as Frankenstein (not that one)...
Thunder Pie | Bruce Springsteen’s Atlantic City
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
I just had to hear it. Apparently the 2004 track Real N***a Roll Call by Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz holds the record for the most swearing...
Thunder Pie | Someone Standing In The Yard
“If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
— Walt Whitman
There is this unfinished stone patio behind our house. It’s nothing much. There used to be dirt...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Most Unlikely To Succeed
One of the criteria to be among my favourite bands, musicians, acts, etc. is for you to be difficult to pin down. I like artists to try new or...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Beware The Classics
I’ve been pretty focused on filling in some of the gaps in my record collection over the past few years. For the most part, in addition to adding new...
