Classic Album Review: The Who | Live At The Royal Albert Hall
This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Ah, the summer concert...
Rewinding 2023 (So Far) | Tinnitist’s Top Interviews
I spent about 30 years interviewing musicians the old-fashioned way: Talking on the telephone, transcribing the tape (and then, eventually, the digital recording) and turning it all into a...
Rewinding 2023 (So Far) | Tinnitist’s Top Music Videos
I have said it before. I am saying it again: If there's one thing I've learned from running Tinnitist, it's that people love music videos. Here's the proof: The...
Next Week in Music | July 3-9 Short List: 8 Titles You Want to...
Between Canada Day, Independence Day and the official start of summer, things are a little slow next week. Not that I'm complaining; it gives me more time to relax...
Next Week in Music | July 3-9 • The Long List: 260 Releases On...
Summertime, and the living is easy. Also easy: Finding something to love among the 260 new albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes...
Next Week in Music | July 3-9 • New Books
There’s just one music biography being released next week. It comes out on July 4. And it's about Bruce Springsteen. Somehow all that feels right.
Bruce Springsteen
Born to Dream: 50...
Next Week in Music | July 3-9 • On TV
Did anybody think the TV writers' strike would last this long? I sure didn't. But it has. So here we are, facing down another week of late-night reruns, along...
Area Resident’s Stylus Counsel | Spot The Difference
Collecting records is sometimes a little like playing one of those "spot the difference" puzzles. Various pressings of albums can vary greatly or subtly depending on when and where...
Thunder Pie | Out Of All That Battle Smoke, Along Comes This American Child
Everyday I think about stupid shit. That’s true freedom right there. I get up in the morning and I pull myself together. Shorts, T-shirt, socks, work boots. Right Guard....
Albums Of The Week: Sweeping Promises | Good Living Is Coming For You
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: "For more than a half century, underground music revolutionaries have taken a whack at the mundane mainstream like a piñata. England punks spat “No future!'”...
Albums Of The Week: The Pink Stones | You Know Who
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “This record was me trying to take everything I love as a listener and a player and shove it all into one thing without it...
Albums Of The Week: Grian Chatten | Chaos For The Fly
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Thirty miles north of Dublin along a windswept promenade you'll find a tired casino, the sort of place anyone familiar with the rusted seaside glamour...
Albums Of The Week: Bdrmm | I Don’t Know
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “While the world became socially distanced in 2020, Hull’s post-shoegaze, dream-pop, heavy-guitar-effects quartet Bdrmm made the kind of impact with their debut album any young...
Albums Of The Week: Angelo De Augustine | Toil And Trouble
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The fourth solo album from Angelo De Augustine, Toil And Trouble exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying...
Albums Of The Week: The 3 Clubmen | The 3 Clubmen
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The 3 Clubmen — XTC’s Andy Partridge, Jen Olive and Stu Rowe — is the culmination of a decade of antics from these longtime collaborators....
