Sonic Reducers | Great Scott
Timing is everything. Especially with jazz. And today's Sonic Reducers topic couldn't come at a better time for me.
I’ve spent the past few weeks re-reading several biographies of Miles...
Sonic Reducers | Much Ado About Dio
More than a decade after his untimely 2010 death, Ronnie James Dio is back in the spotlight.
His memoir Rainbow in the Dark, published last year, was a surprisingly informative...
Jennifer Buchanan Knows The Power of a Playlist
Can music and a mindfully made playlist soothe and improve health and well-being? Award-winning Canadian music therapist Jennifer Buchanan knows the answer is yes, and shares both how (and...
Euterpe: Music Is The Key Expands Horizons
Abundant is the garden planted with musical seeds, says the charitable non-profit Euterpe: Music Is The Key — and that’s just the bountiful flower bed they’re sowing with their...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 3-9 • The Short List: 1 Title You...
Expect to hear a lot of David Bowie in the coming days — next Saturday would have been his 75th birthday. Of course, if you get tired of listening...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 3-9 • The Long List: 110+ Releases On...
Well, that didn't take long. 2022 is only a couple of days old and the new releases are already coming in droves. Guess I better get back to work....
Next Week in Music | Jan. 3-9 • New Books
The Bee Gees share the love, Shaun Ryder teaches a master class, a hip-hop shutterbug opens the vault and more kick off another year of words to go with...
Next Week in Music | Jan. 3-9 • On TV
ACL does the honours, Lucius join The War On Drugs, David Byrne and St. Vincent come out of hiding — and those are just a few highlights from what...
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...
Rewinding 2021 | Roots Music
I briefly considered hair-splitting this category into more specific genres — Americana, folk, country, bluegrass, rockabilly, roots-rock, singer-songwriters and blah blah blah. Thankfully, I talked myself out of that...
Rewinding 2021 | Canadian Music
Some of these categories are easy. Others are harder than calculus. This one was incredibly difficult — mostly because there were so many excellent releases this year. I went...
Rewinding 2021 | World Music
It's not a small world after all. It's a big-ass planet with more music than any one person could ever hope to hear — never mind compare and contrast...
