Raise your hand if, somewhere around age sixteen, you went through a metal phase. Come… Read the postWeek 46: “Laguna Sunrise” by Black Sabbath
Faultline is British producer David Kosten, and one of those musicians who leaves a frustratingly… Read the postWeek 45: “Your Love Means Everything (part 2)” by Faultline feat. Chris Martin
There’s a radio show in Canada called “The Vinyl Café”. Aired weekly, it features the… Read the postWeek 44: “Big Baby” by Joey Wright
Looking through Bush’s catalogue, the more likely candidate for this list for most people might… Read the postWeek 43: “Letting the Cables Sleep” by Bush
In early 2000, photographer Sam Jones contacted the band Wilco to ask if he could… Read the postWeek 42: “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” by Wilco
A lot of recent entries on this list have been hidden gems by lesser-known bands,… Read the postWeek 41: “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King
The Happiness Project was a brilliant experiment in the music of everyday life, created by… Read the postWeek 40: “Vittoria” by Charles Spearin
Over the past ten years, Patrick Lee has released 25 albums. I repeat, this time… Read the postWeek 39: “Mrs. Lee” by Patrick Lee
If you like music enough to be reading this, you’re probably familiar with the psychological… Read the postWeek 38: “What Would You Do With A Million?” by Giant Jnr.
I think that some instruments were created for a specific purpose. The electric guitar, for… Read the postWeek 37: “Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49” by Dmitry Kabalevsky
If you were giving advice to someone trying to make a name for themselves in… Read the postWeek 36: “Whirlpool” by Tim Fagan
There are some things that, for reasons you can’t fully explain, make you cry like… Read the postWeek 35: “Casimir Pulaski Day” by Sufjan Stevens
In an earlier post (this one) I declared Sarah Harmer’s song “Lodestar” to be the… Read the postWeek 34: “Dynamite Walls” by Hayden
And now, a brief story about why I like sample-based music. Many years ago, I… Read the postWeek 33: “His Majesty King Raam” by Lemon Jelly
I’m not the Grinch. I’m not a Christmas-hater. I think Christmas is a great time… Read the postWeek 32: “Little Girl Blue” by Nina Simone
Sometimes beautiful songs show up in the least likely places. A couple of years ago,… Read the postWeek 31: “Despertar” by Aisha Duo
It’s always seemed strange to me that Blur and Oasis got lumped into the same… Read the postWeek 30: “Tender” by Blur
I took piano lessons for almost a decade as a child, but by mid-high school… Read the postWeek 29: “Clair De Lune” by Claude Debussy
One of the great things about the emergence of alternative and indie music in the… Read the postWeek 28: “The King of Carrot Flowers, part 1” by Neutral Milk Hotel
Sometimes your enjoyment of a particular band has more to do with one particular band… Read the postWeek 27: “Ramparts” by John Frusciante