This past week I went on a road trip with my dad and my sister up to a place we went as kids. The whole trip was basically a nostalgia tour. On the way up, we blasted the music we…
Apparently the new cool kid thing is to “emulate” ’90s alt-rock (as opposed to begging, borrowing, and stealing from the ’70s and ’80s.) If you’ve been reading this noble publication for a while, you know that that’s the last musical…
Happy birthday to me! My present to you is this tasty surf-rock morsel from the hands of two of Canada’s greatest alt-country guitarists: Colin Cripps (Kathleen Edwards, Blue Rodeo) and James Robertson (Lindi Ortega, New Country Rehab). The duo’s desire…
I am pretty sure I am the only person who has ever worked out to The Legendary Shackshakers. Certainly, I was the only one in the gym crushing it (I can benchpress 40 pounds, guys!) to rockabilly. Clocking in at…
As much as I enjoy writing about music, my real passion is my day job: teaching. Though I’m not really an NPR person, a number of my friends and family urged me to listen to this week’s episode, “The Problem…