My copy of Franz Ferdinand's new CD arrived. Joy unbound. Here is my statement on music of the 21st century: these guys are as vital to this moment as The Smiths were twenty years ago. The world needs guitar bands filled with skinny lads to pick up all the pieces of the puzzle and give them a good …

If this is the global 100, I want a new planet. I share John's pain.

Don't forget to listen to something new today.

Listening to BBC Scotland's show Air this afternoon, I heard the new single "Do You Want To" from Franz Ferdinand which mentions a "transmission party" - I thought I was the only one that held parties for especially pleasing radio broadcasts anymore. Click here and the song plays from a point near …

In the past we scraped stones across plastic to listen to music.  •  This past weekend, I traded my pal back on a trade we did over 20 years ago. He is a painter and I had one of his. He is also a music nerd like me and got a few things like the copy of Exile On Main St. with the postcards I …

They played Beck this morning. They are trying to sway me towards management. Why does labour never play Beck on the morning show on CBC? When did I last head bop to CBC in the morning?

Even though I suspect this here site is by new old farts for new old farts, I am sure there are more than a few interested in another flourishing of the band scene in Halifax. The weekly The Coast, the only way now to keep in touch with my old City since The Daily News website became so bad, talks …

Web-pal Cyn gets to be a Rolling Stone roadie for the Moncton concert.

Someone I know says "longhair music!" with a humph when the wrong sort of classical music comes on the car radio.  •  There is another sort. I was thinking - as I am thinking too much - of the flooding down south and I remembered that I used to have a live double lp of Professor Longhair, the New …