Category: music
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The writer has launched a Substack titled “Do You Love It?” for their content, transitioning from their website as a portfolio. Expect free and subscriber-exclusive posts, starting with a 2013 interview.
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My monthly roundup of published work for June 2026
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As you may already know, I perform in a band called the Starling Effect. Once a mighty wall-of-sound quintet and currently a tight power trio, we play exactly the sort of music you might expect from a bunch of guys who lived through the alternative explosion of the 1980s and ’90s. It’s a bit shoegaze…
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My monthly roundup of published work for May 2026
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On this day in 2012, Spiritualized, led by Jason Pierce, demonstrated his meticulous approach to music in their album “Sweet Heart Sweet Light,” revealing eclectic influences and intimate songwriting.
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My monthly roundup of published work.
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Twenty-one years ago to this day, Crooked Fingers played a show at the long-gone and sorely missed Richard’s on Richards in Vancouver. A few days before that, I had the opportunity to interview Eric Bachmann about his project’s latest album, Dignity and Shame.
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In a 2009 interview, Kim Moyes from the Presets criticized Billy Corgan’s sour demeanor and claimed their band drew larger, more enthusiastic crowds, despite Corgan’s complaints during their simultaneous performance.
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On this day in 2013, the underrated British alt-rock trio Esben and the Witch played at the long-gone and much-missed Media Club in Vancouver. A couple of years before that, the gothic-leaning band also played Vancouver in March (at the Waldorf on the 26th), so I thought it made sense to revisit both of my…
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Hi! If you’re new here, this is a thing I do every month, where I provide a roundup of all (or at least most) of my writing that has been published in the preceding month. March was a bit of a light month, to be honest, and while I continue to actively pitch, I would…
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