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.
A premium, 45-minute-a-side cassette mixtape of some of my favourite tracks of 2014.
“Said the Gramophone is one of the oldest musicblogs. We try to do just two things, well: finding good songs, and writing about them. We don’t mess about with tour-dates, videos or advertising. We post new songs and old songs, write clumsy dreams of what we hear. If this is your first time here, I […]
For the past few years I’ve been putting together a list of my favourite songs of 2014. The first time I did it I had over forty tracks, but I’ve been whittling it down to less every year. I try to do less because I feel like seven hours is too much for most people […]
2014 was the year I gave up on “hearing everything.” I used to diligently go through new album releases, music blogs, playlists, and charts to hear as much of what was being made as I could. An impossible task, obviously, but one I set for myself. This year, I completely gave up on that. Instead, […]
The Globe and Mail: “In his blog entry, the linguist David Crystal explains that key identifying features of a regional accent tend to disappear when singing: the intonation (as a melody replaces it), vowel length (for many syllables are elongated) and the vocal cadence. Crystal goes on to say that vowel quality is also often affected, “especially […]
A collection of songs with “ghost” in the title, but also better than that.
A sampling of my favourite albums, songs and artists of 2013.
Facebook and YouTube are huge, Twitter is up, MySpace is down, and Last.fm is just sort of there.
Some mixtapes featuring music and dialogue from Breaking Bad.
I could restore my entire music collection, but it doesn’t seem worth it.
Songs from 1998 to 2003. Not my favourites, not the most popular, but ones I hope capture the time.
This Is My Jam is taking the question of “if you could only share one song right now, what would it be?” a step further by asking “If you could only share one song for eternity, what would it be?”
A special edition of Almost Mainstream, featuring some of the performers at Casse-Tête: A Festival of Experimental Music being held June 15 and 16 at the Exploration Place in Prince George.
The limitations of mixtapes need to be replicated in a digital world.
A place isn’t defined by who happened to be born there and left. It’s defined by who decides to stay.
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