Is it just me or is there a disturbing new trend in the music ionosphere? Lately, I have gone through the following steps of music discovery. Hear a hot new track that I really like. Play it 6 to 7 million times Get the album the song is on Categorically hate the album. Now don’t [...]
From the shores of Haiti–or maybe the mountains, I’m not sure–we bring you the latest installment of Peters’ Pick. I’m pretty sure this is what CBC’s Dispatches would sound like if it was hosted by his Ipod: My old beat up Ipod has been through a lot with me and has saved me in more [...]
In a previous life, while fulfilling the role of “tour manager” for a local super group; I got the opportunity to spend part of an evening with the band “You Say Party! We Say Die!” at a Bishops University show. After the concert, we parted ways as their band was whisked away to play another [...]
If someone asked me why I love music, and why I loved rock music especially, I would play them Rhiannon by the holy mid-tempo gods, Fleetwood Mac. This song can knock me out of any funk you can imagine. Just gored by a bull? Put on Rhiannon. Your girlfriend just had a threesome with a [...]
Although it’s a little late for a “year in review” piece, I would be remiss not to talk about my hands down favorite song of 2009. As a bonus, this pick also doubles as an open love letter to the song’s singer. Neko Case has a voice so rich you could by a small Indonesian [...]
I really believe there is something to the theory that the time of year affects what music we listen to. The eponymous new album by The xx is a great example. I picked this it up late summer, gave it a couple of listens, and threw it into Willy Wonka’s “bad egg” pile. Fast forward [...]
Going back to school has put me, a relatively old guy, into a young guy world. Most of the time this is fine, but once in a while there is a cultural gap that makes me feel as though I am a British anthropologist studying the baffling mating habits of a small pygmy tribe in [...]
I recently stumbled across a new video for a Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg in collaboration. I’m pretty well versed in Beck’s awesome freaky deaky videos and lyrics but Charlotte, and the Gainsbourgs in general, are an enigma to me. Some quick research revealed that although Charlotte is an accomplished singer and actress, her parents are [...]
25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago I was recently reading about how scientists were speculating that detonating a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane could actually disperse the force of the winds and downgrade the impact. What? Wouldn’t it just create a radioactive hurricane? That sounds way worse to me. This got [...]
