TORONTO — I was seated in a small restaurant in my Toronto neighbourhood, fumbling with my tape recorder, nursing the latest in a succession of coffees and keeping an eye on the entrance. It hardly seems possible, but it was more […]
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For your new year’s eve listening pleasure, a 30 track collection of music generally released during 2012 in one form or another. I’ve included links to where you can find or listen to the music. Drive carefully. “Neptune City (for […]
As time goes on (and what I mean to say is, as I get older), reissues preoccupy more of my time, money and shelf space. Whether that means I am lost in nostalgia for a presumed better day in music, […]
In a generally descending order of excellence …but they are all pretty excellent. Kathleen Edwards – Voyageur: It is shocking to realize that almost a decade has passed since I first wrote about Edwards for No Depression, just prior to the […]
The exquisite New Jersey-bred singer-songwriter Nicole Atkins is donating all proceeds from a new version of her song “Neptune City” to storm relief and rebuilding. This piano version of Atkins’ ode to her home turf was recorded at Sun Studios […]
Twenty five years ago last March, I was seated in the waiting room of the A&R department at CBS Records in Manhattan. It was my first trip to New York and one of my first formal forays in writing about […]
In memory of Levon Helm, “Opus 40” by Mercury Rev. Levon played drums on this track.
Followers of the hard-nosed Philadelphia-bred rock band Marah have traced a career course that has taken plenty of zigs and zags (and ups and downs) in recent years. Brace yourself for another zag. In recent years, core members Christine Smith […]
If anyone out there made a holiday or New Year’s resolution to spend the coming 12 months committing random acts of graciousness, here is an early opportunity. Serge Bielanko, of the group Marah, yesterday safely escaped with his wife, two children […]
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