Soundtrack Day: We’re Gonna Make It, Baby!

I’ve been trying to get a copy of The Partridge Family’s first album since last summer, around the time that I bought the first season of the show on DVD. It took me a long time to track it down but I finally got it this week. It’s already one of my most prized possessions. [...]

New Band Day: They Shoot Horses Don’t They?

The eyes of lovers of music everywhere haven’t been this fixed on Canada since John Lennon went there and demanded peace from a bed in a hotel in Montreal in 1969. Ok so, there was the occasional Alanis and there’s the Avril phenomenon. But now every kid with a maple leaf on their beanie playing [...]

Soundtrack Day: Dedicated To The One I Love

When I was about 12, I started to rummage through my uncle’s CD collection and “borrow” CDs. He has a lot of those “Remember The Sixties” type CDs. I know, they’re crap. Almost all of them have two or three good songs on them and then a whole bunch of filler, but there was one [...]

New Band Day: Good Shoes

This is my first New Band Day entry and I’ve been really excited about it. But then I started to think about it and I got a little scared. There’s just too much great music right now to choose from. So I’ve decided to let my own obsessiveness make the decision for me.
I am a [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Let me just say right now: I’m sick. There’s snot and coughing and irrational shifts between hot and cold and it’s just not pretty. I’m a little emotional and feeling a little resentful towards Valentine’s Day.
It’s become a bit of a Generation X/Y cliché to bitch about Valentine’s Day and claim we hate it. We’re [...]