Fellow glider, Mike in Halifax, has paid homage to our hero here at HQ, Brent. Mike kindly points to my tracking of his playlist on CBC Ottawa's All in a Day (to your right, my left) and goes on to praise Brent's days on the overnight show Brave New Waves. I also learned a lot about music from him …

When I was looking through some lps at a second hand shop at lunch today I noticed how fixed in time they were.  Though I bought the Nirvana on MTV album on vinyl when it came out, I think it was 1989 when a couple of Christie Moore lps had last hit the turntable fresh from the shrink wrap, new …

I have never been in on the beginnings of anything but I get the feeling that something is going on. Since my return from the State of Maine with a handful of ska CD's, there has been something between a murmur and a roar on - ok, its very close to murmur but technically I am not lying...  •  It's …

Finally stinking hot. Humid and above 30. Maritime Boy sweats in central Canada. Good thing the unhappy niece is here. Good thing I have new ska albums to soothe the baby's wailing. Or cover it up. Wee skanking thing.  •  Ska is the music from the planet of beautiful women. It came out of R+B …

Though it was something of a challenge over beers during a raw oyster eating session - aka "deexpectoration" - I do find myself wanting to learn a few more songs to do wrong to on the guitar. Here are the lyrics - perhaps familiar to some of you - to my first choice:  •  “When I was a kid, I found …

I was looking at a blog post about the new Super Friendz new CD when I wonderwed who was in the band, cause I used to live in Half-a-slacks in the 80's, went to the Grafton Street Cafe, was 1/2 of Bob the Dog on CKDU and I found this picture on the band's old site and I think - that guy looks like …

Well, it was pretty damn good. The setting was great - the front lawn of Ottawa City Hall on a sunny July evening behind the stage to the left was DND HQ and to the right Ottawa U. As the concert started around 7:45 pm, the setting sun broke through and the stage was lit up in yellow then orange …

Today I am doing something I have wanted to do since 1977 - seeing Elvis Costello live.   He is playing the Ottawa Blues Fest this evening with the Imposters, 2/3's of his band from the second lp on, the Attractions.  •  I remembered on the drive up that I had an intense Elvis experience in grade …

I got my new copy of the CD soundtrack to Christiane F, a cheery little movie about a teenage addict in West Berlin in the 1970's. I saw the movie when it first came out at Wormwoods in Halifax in 1981 or so and soon after picked up the lp which I had until one of the record purges during …