With Blue Rodeo, I played the Juno Awards a few times, which is to say I spent several evenings inside a highly managed snow globe with a budget. Everything controlled. […]

I recall one time Neil Young was disgruntled that Trump used “Keep on Rockin’ (in the free world)”. It might be because Trump liked the song or it might have […]

The whole thing hit me like a peyote flashback dipped in Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the moment I walked into the Sybil Goldstein art show. The room vibrating the way ghosts make […]

I have a friend whose life turned out to be tuned in a key I didn’t recognize. For the longest time, I thought he was just living inside a streak […]

Twice now I’ve stumbled across Jian Ghomeshi on Instagram, delivering moral sermons to the camera. I’m with him on Iran, but perhaps he should explore a different career, one that […]

At the end of my interview with the Montreal radio station, the DJ shifted into a solemn tone and said he wanted to ask about a very serious anniversary. The […]

Soon it will be the anniversary of Lennon’s murder, that national psychic car crash of 1980. I remember the night like a concussion. One of the zillions of poor bastards […]

At the accordion store I used the bathroom. Saw this on the wall, “How do you know a music lawyer’s telling the truth?Don’t worry it’s never come up.”