Music Review

Recently, during one of my daily bouts of procrastination, I somehow found myself surfing through www.rockcritics.com (curse you, Internet!), revisiting […]

I remember one summer evening, it must have been about fifteen years ago now. We were in the middle of […]

Let us compare bluesmen. Sometime, around 1990 I think, Canadian guitarist Colin James opened his flashy blues-rock number Just Came […]

It’s like a breath of fresh air to hear something new over here at the BP Music Department. And it’s […]

The Frontier Index It’s been a long time since any rock record made me think of Buddy Holly or the […]

Mr. Dressup is dead but Friendly Rich is alive and well. We Need a New F-Word merges sly wit, phantasmagoric […]

My brother tends to like heavy, bass-driven music. He likes to drive around with his car stereo speakers cranked so […]

In the popular imagination, small towns are generalized as overwhelmingly friendly places, filled with smiling, neighbourly folks who always have […]

I’ve had these CDs for a number of months now but continue to wrestle with a way of summarizing their […]

Brooding in the basement? Feeling frustrated and slightly disaffected? Why not accompany your mellow misery with quiet-loud disciples Bronx Cheerleader? […]

In a perfect world, girls with guitars would get equal play with whatever nonsense is on the radio right now, […]

I liked Scratching Post. There was an unpretty Canadian rock band, one that had no interest in being tasteful or […]