A few weeks ago, the good people at Canadian Parents invited me to do a little blogging for them. They pitched the idea of writing a letter to my unborn kid, and I have to admit that I had a lot of fun with it. Here’s the result. Ironically, the day Canadian Parents chose to […]

The Chart parade continued today with this review of the latest from Delhi 2 Dublin, a Vancouver world music quintet that I’ll admit I’d never heard of before I grabbed the CD from the shelf. I’m glad I took the risk, and I invite you to do the same.

A couple of new reviews of mine hit the Chart website this afternoon within ten minutes of each other. First came this review of the debut disc from a German duo called Qluster, and then came this review of the new greatest hits record from Ladytron. They’re both decent records, and I’m glad I got […]

My latest review for Chart covers the second and latest release by Jello Biafra and his new band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine. I thought it was quite a decent record, and if you’d like to know why, you can read the review. That’s how the whole thing works.

This wasn’t really a bad album, especially not for a debut. There were strong points, and their were weak points. I just thought the weak outnumbered the strong – which is funny, in a way, because “the weak outnumbered the strong” is a lyric tailor-made for a concept album like this. Speaking of Chart, I’ve […]

My slow but steady return to Chart continues today with my review of the latest release from Vancouver’s Sweatshop Union. A fine album indeed. Do check it out (the album, not the review, although sure, the review too).

I hadn’t written anything for Chart for a little while, but that hiatus ended today with my review of the latest from a New Jersey hard rock trio called the Atomic Bitchwax. It’s literally just a single forty-two minute track, but that track’s a fine one. Do check it out.

This is another one of those reviews that I was more than a little reluctant to write. Nick Flanagan is a good dude, and certainly one of Toronto’s more innovative comedians. And although this isn’t by any means a bad review – there was, after all, a lot to like about the disc – it […]

To the nones of people who are always asking how they can be a music critic just like me, I’d like to offer the following gaze into the creative process behind this review: 1. When did Marcy Playground release “Sex and Candy,” exactly? 1997, right? 2. Was that before or after the New Radicals did […]

Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, passed away on Friday. Chart rightly saw fit to kick off the week with one of their trademark obituaries, in which they provide a list of reasons why the person in question was cool. I stepped up to write this one, and I had a lot to […]