What’s Really Good: September 1, 2023
The school year is right around the corner. With coursework and a couple jobs lined up for the next eight months or so, it’s highly possible that my activity on
Category: Thoughts, Essays, Etc.
Just Throwing This Out There: Thoughts on Concert Behaviour, Fandom, and the Musician as “Star”
Like many people, I’ve found the recent trend of fans throwing objects at musicians to be fascinating and bizarre. It happened to Steve Lacy. It happened to Drake. It happened
What’s Really Good: August 15, 2023
King Midas Sound – Fact Mix 103 I went through a phase last winter where I began exploring the high period of “real” dubstep. It is unfortunate that the Americanized
What’s Really Good: August 3, 2023
collage I’ve got a backlog of cool music to write about and a little more free time than usual, so you can expect the WRG columns to arrive a little
Favourite Releases of 2022
In alphabetical order, here are my favourite EPs, albums, and mixtapes from the past year. aasir – THE GHOST OF TOMORROW THE GHOST OF TOMORROW (FREE MIXTAPE) by aasir Hip
Top 50 Favourite Songs of 2022
Pretty good year for music, I’d say. Here are the 50 tracks I listened to the most, got emotionally gut-punched hardest by, or cut a rug hardest to. Try to
MP3 Archaeology Vol. 3: Barnard’s Star – Barnard’s Star
We take a look at Barnard’s Star’s self-titled EP, New Zealand indie, shoegaze-electronica fusion, and talk about why repetition is a nice thing for music to contain … Continue readingMP3 Archaeology Vol. 3: Barnard’s Star – Barnard’s Star
Please Kill My Vibe: Fulfilling Hunger For Non-Functional Music Experiences
Vibing to music is cool, but when music has the power to stop you in your tracks, pull hard on your heartstrings, give you an intense rush of energy, or radically change or validate your perspective on your life and the world, how can one not prefer that over something that will play idly as you enter data into spreadsheets, bag groceries, or cram for that biomechanics final you wrote four years ago and now have no recollection of the material you spent hours agonizing over? … Continue readingPlease Kill My Vibe: Fulfilling Hunger For Non-Functional Music Experiences
The Vibes Are Off: Hearing Feel-Good Music During Unsettling Times
Toro y Moi is an artist that I’ve long been a fan of. In fact, his 2019 album Outer Peace was one of my favorite albums of that year. On
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MP3 Archaeology Vol. 2: Phil Yost – Bent City
In the second entry in the mp3 archaeology series, we take a look at Phil Yost’s avant-jazz opus Bent City and the legacy of mp3 blogs and file-sharing … Continue readingMP3 Archaeology Vol. 2: Phil Yost – Bent City