Forget Glastonbury: the best music festival of this past weekend was without a doubt Calgary’s Sled Island Festival. For 4 days every decent (and a few not-so-decent) venue in the downtown area played host to over 200 bands, as well as a number of comedians, films and art exhibits.

Is it possible to find a playlist using only the tags “Jack White”, “whiskey”, “southwest” and “desert”?  If you can find it please let me know, I’ve searched for it and had no luck, but if I had come across it then that exact playlist would have been on heavy rotation in my home/car/office for [...]

Two days later and I’m still suffering from the effects of LCD Soundsystem‘s last ever show at Madison Square Garden.

This is a bit of a moody and sombre post, but it’s hard to be anything but given the events that have occurred around the world over the last few weeks. In my life I can’t remember a time when so many major stories have emerged in such a short timeframe.

The scale of South by Southwest (SXSW) is hard to fathom, so much so that we never know the actual number of bands (or even the number of shows for that matter) who play in Austin during what, in my opinion, is the most important week in music.  There are hundreds and hundreds of bands [...]

Just got back from Florida. At every stop we were bombarded by a completely different type of music giving each city a completely different atmosphere. . .