Recent Work

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