These are some of my recently published features, interviews, and book reviews. Please click on the link to read the entire article.
Book review for PopMatters of Bunnyman, the autobiography by Echo and the Bunnymen guitarist Will Sergeant
Interview for Please Kill Me with Eamonn Forde, author of Leaving the Building: The Lucrative Afterlife of Music Estates
Book review for PopMatters of Michael Elliott’s biography of John Hiatt, Have A Little Faith : The John Hiatt Story
Feature for Record Collector magazine on the Tubes’ 1981 appearance on the SCTV comedy TV series
Feature for Record Collector magazine on the so-bad-it’s-good 1975 glam rock film Never Too Young To Rock
Feature for Record Collector magazine on Vancouver’s famous Quintessence Records label
Book review for PopMatters of the 25th anniversary edition of A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno’s Diary
Feature for Record Collector magazine on the vocal album made by ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean
Feature for Shindig! magazine on the garage-punk classic Psychotic Reaction
Book review for PopMatters of Andrea Ann Klein’s Millennials Killed The Video Star: MTV’s Transition to Reality Programming
Feature for Record Collector magazine on a 1966 CBC TV special on Vancouver’s psychedelic music scene
Interview for Please Kill Me with Graeme Thomson, author of the John Martyn biography Small Hours
Feature for Shindig! magazine on Deep Purple’s song Hush
Interview for Please Kill Me with musical duo Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry
Feature for PopMatters on the memoirs of Capitol Records promotion man Dave Morrell
Feature for Shindig! magazine on the Northern Soul classic song Picture Me Gone
Feature for Please Kill Me on rock’n’roll records made by professional wrestlers
Book review for PopMatters of Anika Gupta’s study of online moderators, How to Handle a Crowd
Feature for Please Kill Me on the mysterious story of Deep Purple’s original lead singer, Rod Evans
Interview for Please Kill Me with Fred Goodman, author of Lhasa de Sela Matters
Feature for Please Kill Me on the underappreciated music of Beverley Martyn and Linda Thompson
Interview for Please Kill Me with Lindsay Goldwert, author of Bow Down: Lessons from Dominatrixes on How to Get Everything You Want
Book review for PopMatters of the autobiography of legendary producer Ted Templeman