Music

  • On Marvin the Album

    I came here bang out 2500 words on one of the best birthday presents I’ve ever received: the 30th Anniversary release of Frente‘s Marvin the Album on vinyl. I was going to talk about how it was the first album I ever bought myself, on cassette, from the long defunct Music World in Coquitlam Centre.…

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  • On Oasis, Nostalgia, and Monoculture

    Oasis was not a huge band in Canada. Wonderwall was a big hit, but they were largely just another Britpop band to all but the British people who moved here. Part of that is because they didn’t really become a thing in America, where they were more known for the antics of the brothers Gallagher…

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  • On Listening to Music at 42

    When I used to blog heavily circa the early/mid-2000s, it was mostly about music. I would come back from a show at 1AM or whatever and then spend an hour talking about what I just saw. Openers described in detail, audience assessments (often about how Vancouver doesn’t support bands that I liked), and usually how…

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