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...
Rewinding 2021 | Blues Albums
The blues never goes out of style. Especially these days. Here are the artists who kept it alive and kicking in 2021:
TINNITIST'S PICK
Adia Victoria
A Southern Gothic
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Rewinding 2021 | Covers & Tribute Albums
I don't know about you, but I can only think of a few things I love more than a cool cover song — and one of them is an...
Rewinding 2021 | Live Albums
Hey, remember concerts? I do. Though I can barely remember the last time I saw one. And honestly, I'm in no hurry to attend one again. Right now, the...
Rewinding 2021 | Box Sets & Reissues
I read somewhere that oldies make up nearly two-thirds of all online steaming. I'm not quite there yet. But I did spend a fair chunk of time in 2021...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 27 – Jan. 2 • The Long List:...
Some acts apparently want to be the last to release an album this year. Others want to be the first to drop a disc in 2022. This list covers...
Sonic Reducers | Do You Hear What I Hear?
Over the decades, I guesstimate I've reviewed somewhere in the neighbourhood of 1,000 Christmas albums. You'd think that would be enough jingling bells and fa-fa-las to last a lifetime....
