Next Week in Music | July 19-25 • New Books
If you're like me, you've always got a stack of books you've been meaning to read. This might be a good week to pull one out of the pile...
Next Week in Music | July 19-25 • On TV
Alessia Cara does double duty to hype her two new singles, Leon Bridges gives us a sneak peek of his upcoming album Gold-Diggers Sound, Brandi Carlile unveils her track Right...
Next Week in Music | July 12-18 • The Short List: 10 Titles I...
Between all the regular releases coming next Friday and the hundreds of Record Store Day offerings arriving on Saturday, I could have easily come up with a few dozen...
Next Week in Music | July 12-18 • The Long List: 500 Releases On...
No, the music industry hasn't suddenly decided that mid-July is the perfect time to release a bajillion albums. The second stage of this year's Record Store Day happens on...
Next Week in Music | July 12-18 • New Books
England and L.A. Texas and Brazil. Festival guides and concert chronicles. The latest crop of new books are all over the map and on the move. Read all about...
Next Week in Music | July 12-18 • On TV
Lorde keeps her promise to Stephen Colbert, BTS do a double shift with Jimmy Fallon, John Mayer shares his sob stories, Tedeschi Trucks Band play Dominos and more as...
Next Week in Music | July 5-11 • The Short List: 4 Titles You...
Summertime, and the listening is easy — assuming you have no trouble dealing with new albums from Jakob Dylan and his Wallflowers, Texas supergroup The Flatlanders, rapper Vince Staples and...
Next Week in Music | July 5-11 • The Long List: 300 Releases On...
Today's list of new albums, EPs, singles, soundtracks, anthologies, compilations, box sets and vinyl reissues is brought to you by the words Love, Life, Soul, World, Summer, Live and...
Next Week in Music | July 5-11 • New Books
Richard Marx tells tales, Mary Gauthier gets saved, The Wu-Tang Clan saga is a twice-told tale, Bruce Springsteen says cheese and the rest of the new music tomes on...
Next Week in Music | July 5-11 • On TV
As usual, most of the late-night hosts have a holiday hangover this week. So you'll have to get your televisual music fix from the daytime shift. On the plus...
Finny McConnell Is Headed For The Dark Streets Of Love
Finny McConnell will be prowling The Dark Streets Of Love this fall. After 30 glorious years of leading renowned Celtic punk rockers The Mahones, founder and bandleader McConnell decided...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • The Short List:...
Let's be honest: We all have better things to do next weekend than listen to a ton of new albums. The music gods know that — so most of...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • The Long List:...
What a difference a week makes. Especially a week with a major holiday. In contrast to last week's lunacy of 500-plus releases, there are only a paltry 260 new...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • On TV
This week is rated R, for Repeat, as most of the American talk-show hosts get an early start on the July 4 holiday. That's the bad news. The good...
RIP Doug Inglis of Goddo
I just read that Goddo drummer Doug Inglis apparently passed away the other day of unspecified causes. That's a shame. He was one of my favourite drummers back in...
