Amazing. Twenty two years after I saw them at the then recently relocated Misty Moon on Barrington Street in Halifax, "Nova Heart" is still pretty good. Are they the best thing ever to come out of Burlington, Ontario?  •  Now when I say good, come to think of it, I don't mean I would advocate …

After catching one cut from the 25th anniversary issue of London Calling on Brent's show this afternoon, I thought I better get another copy so I ordered it from Amazon. I still have my double lp from the spring of grade eleven in 1980. Just the one as so many people had extra copies I never …

Another gone and all of the core given the three drummers who backed them through the years they played, 1974 to 1996. I suppose I started listening to their records in 1981, my first year of undergrad when I played "Blitzkrieg Bop" or "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" on our show Bob the Dog on CKDU …

Magic. Mike has located the great CFL in the USA moment when the Canadian national anthem was sung to the tune of "Oh, Christmas Tree." When was it that Rosanne Barr destroyed the US anthem at the all-star game?

The Accordion Guy asks for "Must  •  Know" Canadian tunes from roughly 1985 to 1995. What are yours? Push the limits either way. My Canada includes Doug and the Sluggs.

High school. In someone's parents' living room and the Stones are on SNL. Keith and Mick kiss and Charlie is the metronome. God love the only Stone that isn't a freak.

I heard the band One Ring Zero earlier this month on NPR's Fresh Air. Regular readers will recall my affection for the full range of plinky-plink music from the products one can receive in plain wrapped packaging from Electron in Toronto to the works of They Might Be Giants. What fits attacted me …

It all ended at a bar called Brandies listening to someone cover INXS (Ed.: actually pronounced "ink-es" as in "I loves dem ink-es, Doreen, don-cho?" said with a outport accent) watching people born in the 50's trying to pick up people born in the 60's. Then I realized I was present at the same …

Travelling, as I was, I was struck again by the fact of, the value of and the  •  beauty of the greatest low-tech invention of the 20th century, the t-shirt.  •  Egalitarian, a medium of expression, the brightest coloured garment anyone  •  wears, cheap, durable, four season.  •  “I got it on …