Musical Frights: The quest for the ideal Halloween playlist
I love making playlists. It’s one of the many ways in which iTunes revolutionized my music listening habits. I have playlists for my different friends when they come over, for…
Concert Review: Rush at the Bell Centre, Montreal – October 19 2012
Canadian prog-rock icons Rush have gone back on the road to support their latest studio album, Clockwork Angels. After the success of last year’s Time Machine tour, based around the…
Concert review – Anthrax,Testament and Death Angel at the Metropolis, Montreal – October 2 2012
I’ve been listening to Anthrax since 1985 when I saw the video for “Madhouse” on MuchMusic ( the Canadian counterpart to MTV). Soon after, a friend at school made me…
Naughty Bear: Panic in Paradise – My adventure as a record producer
When I’m not writing this blog, I work as a Senior Director at Behaviour Interactive, an independant game developer based in Montreal, Canada, and one of the departments I oversee…
Music as a commodity (a prologue)
This is just a quick post for tonight. I’ll eventually have much more to say about the devaluation of recorded music, but I wanted to share something I encountered this…
Concert Review: Peter Gabriel, Montreal, September 18 2012
From the start I must admit to being at best a casual fan of Peter Gabriel’s solo career. While I have a high admiration for his work with Genesis, his…
Spotlight on: Monster Truck
Monster Truck is my new band of the moment. One of the things I love about going to concerts is the occasional discovery of a new artist among the opening…
Musical Pilgrimage (part 2)
As one of my first posts on this blog, I showed a picture of my pilgrimage to the famous Abbey Road crossing, where the Beatles shot their iconic cover. (See…
Don’t touch my stub!
In the last 20 years, concerts have been less and less the work of small, local promoters and increasingly in the hands of large concentrated corporations. Big tours now routinely…
Alice Cooper – Elected
Alice Cooper – Elected It’s an election day here in Quebec, which made me think of this song. Alice Cooper is one of my favourite artists of all time and…