Paul Cantin

R.E.M officially called it quits this week, which triggered this ... It is May 2001 and I’m walking northward on Yonge Street, the main artery through Toronto’s downtown core, puddle dodging and ears ringing with the lingering sound of R.E.M.’s just completed set. The

Along with the hoariest of r<a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=TZaFMCee5HQC&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=" legendary+blues+giant"+critic+cliche&source="bl&ots=xbHycPsIGJ&sig=gS_oPTBSrW2EZto7zcsuUW2VEZk&hl=en&ei=2wq6TMyMGYbhnQfLu93sDQ&

Even as he continues to tour and finalize a new Daniel Lanois-produced set of songs, work pushes ahead on the second installment of Neil Young's multi-volume career retrospective, Archives. According to a post on Young's own news page, NY Times, the second set of the Archives

On June 15, Bumstead Records releases a two-disc deluxe edition of The Blue Shadows’ debut record On The Floor of Heaven. It is, quite simply, an album every alt country fan should have and it is particularly satisfying to see it available again after falling out of print in the

Last Wednesday, the 51st anniversary of Buddy Holly's death slipped by without much fanfare. That's not too surprising, given the recent recognition of the half-century since Holly's plane crash death (Feb. 3, 1959). What's more surprising is that there hasn't

I try to cling tenaciously, perhaps naively, to the belief that in music, quality will always win the day; that the good stuff will bubble to the surface and find an audience. It isn’t always easy to hold firm to that notion. The recent release of Wendy Bird’s