Lokchi
Lokchi has perfect pitch. She says anybody can. “You can have perfect pitch Bob” I went over to the piano and played G# at a good distance from her. “G#” […]
Bob Wiseman
Twidley Dee Dum
Nice thing about digitizing the piles of VHS tapes in the closet is discovering things forgotten like this amazing band. This video excerpt was from a television special called Listen Up. They […]
Top 10 Toronto: Tidy Up Tidy Up Put It Away
In the Autumn of 2012 Now Magazine music editor Benjamin Boles wrote several Toronto music people and asked for our top 10 Toronto records ever recorded. This was for […]
Expired Conditions
your spine days are done gone are your brothers puddles lifted your mother
Real Dudeness And The Zionist Revolution
Real dudeness is guts and insight and wisdom. Uri Avnery tells it like it is. So many Jewish people I know can’t handle talking about what that midwest philosopher Mr. […]
Clancy Sigal on Songs For John Doe
by Clancy Sigal There are all sorts of ways to celebrate the life of Pete Seeger, but the one I prefer is a deliberately forgotten and suppressed album, “Songs for […]
Verstehst Du Mich?
The Binder Specialists in Kiel playing I Row The Boat a song written a few years earlier before I quit Blue Rodeo. Some lyrics just come and you have no […]
Journey To Ixtlan
There is nothing as amazing as an amazing drummer. Sometimes when I watch them I think I can do that, it’s just sticks and skins. But that’s like thinking I […]
Screeched In: Chicago Style
One of the best parts about putting a one and a half year old to sleep is when they are too pooped to remain conscious and they try to sit […]
Take The Survey
Not sure if Jim Flaherty’s is trying to gather answers about financial priorities from ordinary Canadians or just the many millionaires who profit more under him and Harper. If […]