music – Jen Selk

August and Everything After (a Counting Crows relisten)

MUSIC & MEMORY | Revisiting “August and Everything After”. I first heard Counting Crows on the radio in the spring of 1994. I was wearing one of my Dad’s oversized burgundy dress ...

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Beauty’s religion

Let’s go Rome! For those of you who don’t know, I am off to England and Italy tomorrow for three weeks of social and quasi-religious fulfilment. (Read: seeing friends, drinking cider, and buying ...

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Don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine

Well, colour me surprised. Whereas most of my blog entries go relatively unnoticed (and certainly un-commented on), yesterday’s ridiculous rant caused an absolute avalanche of commentary. I’ve ...

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Lights will guide you home

Haven’t blogged in awhile cause I’ve been in Toronto. The one and a half people who read this silly site were devastated in my absence, I’m sure. All in all, a very interesting trip. Mostly ...

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Leslie Feist is coming up

MUSIC | Canadian everywoman Leslie Feist is straight up blowing up. Leslie Feist is hard to figure out. In many ways, she’s exactly what you’d expect from a folky singer/songwriter: she’s smart, ...

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Drugs, drugs, drugs! Which are good? Which are bad?

Spent yesterday running all over town on various news stories. Hit pot activist Mark Emery’s bail hearing in the morning, and the Vancouver airport in the afternoon. (To see how travellers were ...

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Turin Brakes’ Olly Knights (Q&A)

MUSIC | Turin Brakes interview with Olly Knights. They’ve been compared to Simon & Garfunkel, they’re standout favourites in the UK’s New Acoustic Movement, they sell out massive shows all ...

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Gatekeeper, gatekeeper, gatekeeper

BURN OUT LOOMS | Trying to blog when you’re already overworked is good fun, but hey. Check out the Vancouver Folk Festival? All that talk about not wanting to blog and I’m back already. ...

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Indie band, The Clips

MUSIC | You may not have heard of them, but The Clips are indie up-and-comers. The group is an eclectic foursome composed of drummer and sometimes-violinist Jeremy Gruman, guitarist Mike Jones, ...

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Music consumerism and Starbucks

MUSIC TRENDS | Music consumerism and Starbucks. It’s a whole new world. All of a sudden Starbucks is to music like Oprah is to books. The coffee giant is brewing up more than Mocha Javas, ...

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Bryan Adams, Room Service review

REVIEW | Bryan Adams, Room Service | Polydor Records (Universal), ** 1/2. There’s something comforting about a musician like Bryan Adams. While he may not being doing anything particularly ...

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Sarah McLachlan concert review

REVIEW | Fans loved this Sarah McLachlan concert. While the crowd was too demure to be said to have gone wild when Sarah McLachlan took the stage at GM Place on Friday night, they made it clear ...