Nova Scotia makes wine, and other tidbits from this year’s festival.
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First spin album review—Circus Devils Laughs Last The final album from Guided by Voices’ Robert Pollard’s psych-rock sideproject. I’ve had an on-again, off-again relationship with…
Coma is a 1970s doctor-on-doctor pile-on, with a French-Canadian’s life at stake.
Jesca Hoop on dreams and her new album, Memories Are Now I originally did this interview for hmv.com/ca, but since the company has gone into…
Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers on the band’s 10th album. And Trump.
Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws on the band’s new album, You Know Who You Are
The ‘Put Your Records On’ singer’s third album. And how about that Belly cover?
Reading Argentinian writer Clarice Lispector influenced more than the title of Near to the Wild Heart of Life, says Japandroids’ Brian King
Nick Lowe on Chrissie Hynde, the early days of Stiff Records, Rockpile and more
Self-assured and a little spooky, her 2016 record Medicine for Birds won over critics. Garcia opens for Lydia Loveless Feb 2 in Vancouver.
Last year, Lee Aaron released Fire and Gasoline – one of the New York Observer’s ‘Most Overlooked Albums of 2016.’ In this interview, the singer talks about the record, surviving the nineties, and her next album.
Courtney Marie Andrews’ Honest Life caught the attention of critics and Americana fans in 2016. She opens for Joe Pug Jan 14 at the Cobalt.
Wouldn’t you know it, after I thought I’d finally completed my two lists of Vancouver album releases for 2016, I find some more.
A close encounter with Elvis Costello
Who remembers Minutes from Downtown?
Looking back at the Looking for Mr. Goodbar movie In a recent post, I wrote about Judith Rossner‘s Looking for Mr. Goodbar. Reading the 1975 bestseller was…
Weird, wacky and often well-written, the 1973 bestseller-turned-into-a-Diane-Keaton-film was based on a true story.
The World’s Greatest Comic Magazine also featured the World’s Most Gullible Supehero Team, and other things I learned while reading this doorstop.
A request letter from a longtime fan
Periodically, I like to check in on my friend Louise to find out her take on the latest in pop culture news. So when she…