Lemurian Congress

I enjoyed this "Brooklyn Organ Synth Orchestra" clip of "Tubular Bells" so much that I eventually bought the song. Have ...

I escorted my parents to see Greg Allman at the Kitchener Blues Festival on Thursday. I have almost no recollection of Allman from my youth...

The EP that Kevin Cogliano and I have been working on (as "Pico and Alvarado") is available for download from Bandcamp! It's $...

Many years in the making, "Sruel Quay" is finally here...a last scraping together of UPhold music that's been languishing duri...

Several months ago, Kevin Cogliano -- the "Alvarado" in "Pico & Alvarado" -- sent me a demo titled something like ...

When I'm not writing I'm usually working on music, and since I rarely updated the blog this month you know what that means: a new ...

Thrilled with the results of our first collaboration, Kevin Cogliano and tackled the next one: "Style Kitchen." Kevin sent the gui...

Every year I escort my mother to the Kitchener Blues Festival. I love good music but I have a certain impatience with Michael Bolton and his...

Past releases by " The Go! Team " have left me slightly flat...I love their "drum corps and skipping song" aesthetic, bu...

Feeling like my musical development was stagnating, I asked Kevin Cogliano to let me remix some guitar tracks he was working on. I added key...

Andy Prieboy has put a "musical sketchbook" online entitled " Don't Tell That Guy Anything ," consisting of six reje...

I've talked at length about my love for Mike Oldfield's classic albums . The fact that those albums are now being re-released in new...

Once a year (approximately) I hear a song that is Pure Ear Ecstasy. It "sends" me. It gradually seeps into my brain and possesses ...

After I finished high school, I had an entire summer to figure out what I wanted to do in University. Little did I know that it would take a...

I had a great time on Thursday night, helping to film the video for Alysha Brillinger's song "Pearl." You'll be hearing a...

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...

In the summer of '90 I had an amazing opportunity that I mostly squandered: I spent a few months working at WATFAC , the Waterloo Founda...

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...

I have long been enchanted by this cover of "Across the Universe." It is somehow -- inexplicably -- both heart-wrenchingly beautif...