Classic Album Review: The Who | My Generation Deluxe Edition

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Granted, My Generation probably...

Classic Album Review: Sonic Youth + ICP + The Ex | In the Fishtank...

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Yes, it’s a new...

Classic Album Reviews: Buck 65 | Square / MC Paul Barman | Paullelujah!

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Maybe white men can’t...

Classic Album Review: The Anger Brothers | The Anger Brothers

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   It’s no secret that...

Classic Album Reviews: Black Sabbath | Symptom of the Universe: 1970 – 1978 /...

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   A few years back,...

Classic Album Reviews: The Soft Boys | Nextdoorland / Robyn Hitchcock | Robyn Sings

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   “You can set your...

The Moth Project Landing In Toronto & Ottawa

It’s been 14 years since Ottawa-born, Brooklyn-based musician Peter Kiesewalter presented his own music in his home province with his Grammy-nominated rock-opera outfit East Village Opera Company. That drought...

Christopher Ward Rekindles His Spark Of Desire

Christopher Ward takes you back to 1978 with his old-new album Spark Of Desire — showcasing today on Tinnitist. Before writing the Billboard chart-topper Black Velvet for Alannah Myles, becoming one...

Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • The Short List: 7 Titles You...

Bruce has a heart full of soul, GN’R reuse their Illusion, Morris Day calls time, Larkin Poe live in harmony, Wild Billy girds his loins, White Buffalo rides a...

Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • The Long List: 375 Releases On...

Today’s musical birthdays are a bittersweet affair: Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey would have been 74, Texas tornado Doug Sahm would have blown out 80 candles, Guy Clark would have...

Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • New Books

A punk hero, a glam god, a rock icon, a country boy, two sexy one-hit wonders, a jazz extraterrestrial and a host of classic rock and pop stars. You...

Next Week in Music | Nov. 7-13 • On TV

SoFaygo, Smino, Breland and Mergui. If you don't already know them, now's your chance — they're all hitting the airwaves next week, along with more familiar names like Shania,...

Albums Of The Week: John Mellencamp | Scarecrow Deluxe Edition

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “The deluxe edition reissue of John Mellencamp’s beloved album Scarecrow is out now, featuring a massive collection of bonus tracks, rarities and more never previously...

Stylus Counsel | Area Resident’s Records

A few months ago I was holding a pop-up record sale at a local microbrewery. One of the albums I was selling kept causing confusion. The centre of said confusion...

Thunder Pie | Endless Evening Appomattox Blues

“America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.” — Frederick Douglass George Floyd, face on the street, the cop’s...

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