Below is the writing I’ve done about music on this blog. You may also want to check out my music blog/podcast Almost Mainstream, follow me on Rdio and This Is My Jam, listen to my mixtapes and check out my year end lists for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014. I’m on lots of music discovery services, too, including last.fm, Hype Machine, Soundcloud, Mixcloud and CBC Music.
Tom Breihan in Stereogum: It’s wild that we ever knew a time before “Seven Nation Army.” Rock was moribund, long in the tooth, a phenomenon that existed in quotation marks and was in need of reviving. And yet nobody had ever put those specific notes in that specific order before Jack White, fucking around at […]
So that was a year. Once again, I feel like my musical tastes are growing ever more detached from any semblance of the cultural pulse and this is the first time since I started doing this that I didn’t even make an effort at listening to all the big critical lists sifting for songs I […]
Why Grown Ass Men Get So Emotional About Carly Rae Jepsen
A selection of my favourite tracks from 2019.
As we officially enter the age of nostalgia for Y2K, a selection of songs from that era that don’t sound their age.
“‘All Star” but it’s a gentle piano ballad, ‘All Star’ but it’s spoken-word slam poetry, ‘All Star’ but it’s a TED Talk) and then the sorts of Dadaist musical experiments (‘All Star’ but every note is C, ‘All Star’ but every word with an ‘E’ is skipped, ‘All Star’ but the lyric ‘And they don’t […]
Some of my favourite songs of 2018
Over on Twitter, BBC Radio 6 Music asked, “What’s the strongest run of three songs in a row on an album?” It’s sparked a lot of answers, and I think it’s because it’s such an interesting question.
Last night I went to watch some bands and I realized I’ve been going to shows by some of the musicians there for about 15 years. Right now I usually see them at the local legion, but I’ve watched them in pizza places, pubs, coffee shops, restaurants, theatres, a record shop, and above a bookstore, […]
On Leonard Cohen, and the inevitable defeat of us all.
“‘Northern Touch’ helped bridge the gap between Canada’s scattered hip-hop scenes, bringing together artists from Ontario and British Columbia, but it also did so much more.”
I didn’t listen to all the music in 2017, but I listened to some of it and these were the songs that stuck with me in some form or another.
For three years I was part of a site called “This Is My Jam.” The premise was pretty simple: you choose one song, and only one, you are truly passionate and set it on your profile, along with a few words about it. The beauty of this versus, say, Spotify is that it was a […]
A mix of some of my favourite tracks and artists of 2016. 45 songs designed to fit onto two 80 minute CD-Rs, just like the old days (plus a bonus track).
“You want it darker/ We kill the flame”
Ad nauseam
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