Lemurian Congress

It's outrageously hot here in Southern Ontario so excuse me while I try to sweat this one out. It's a shame, because... ...I'd b...

I first heard Sky Cries Mary when their "Return to the Inner Experience" album appeared at CKMS. Its eye-catching cover, odd song...

I have a new ritual which keeps me smiling on Monday mornings: when I go to work that day I allow myself to buy ONE album off iTunes. I migh...

One of my first jobs was as a part-time clerk at "Sounds Music Plus," a record store in New Hamburg. Besides sitting around waitin...

You couldn't be a child of the '80s in Canada without being exposed to Jane Siberry . Our radio and television stations, hungry to f...

Sometimes it's hard to enjoy a band if you can't understand their lyrics. Language barriers can prevent an awful lot of a song from ...

As I'll mention when I write the "I.B.A.B. Wall of Voodoo" entry, I ran across Stan Ridgway mostly by accident. Before I disc...

So you're in highschool and you've just discovered musical alternatives -- life isn't just about Tom Petty and The Tragically Hi...

When I think of San Francisco -- where I've never been -- I either think of William T. Vollmann's prostitutes...or of The Red House ...

I have said previously in this blog that Andy Prieboy is my favourite musician. He's smart and creative and eccentric, and he writes in...

I've already talked enough about Pink Floyd in this blog, and you already know enough about them. Let's just say that I've been ...

Michael Penn hit it big in 1989. Besides being the brother of Sean Penn -- who at that time was making quite a few splashes of his own -- t...

In the barbaric PYT days ("Pre-YouTube") you could rarely watch a music video online. Only the more progressive record companies a...

It took me many years to finally understand "the funk." I think that my ideas about music were too rigid; I didn't think that ...

Somehow, during the early '90s, serial killers became cool. American Psycho , Natural Born Killers , Kalifornia , Silence of the Lambs ....

For many years I was a fan of the more popular songs by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark , and I even owned (and cherished) their "Pac...

"Tubular Bells" was an album that I literally grew up with, one of those records that my mother played over and over again from my...

My "I'd Buy Anything" spree came to a temporary halt because I'd already mentioned Nits enough in this blog...was there a...

When you're a kid you get particular joy out of dirrrrrty novelty songs. At an early, impressionable age I was exposed not only to Donov...

I was first exposed to My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult when their "And This Is What The Devil Does" video premiered on City Lim...