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[ July 13, 2026 ] For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone” Features
[ July 13, 2026 ] Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free” Album Reviews
[ July 13, 2026 ] Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers Interviews
[ July 13, 2026 ] Mary Gauthier announces new album “Reckoning” News
[ July 13, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 244 “There by the grace…” Columns

Shuffle: Now that’s what I call 1984

April 14, 2022 David Cowling 0

Every so often a Minutemen track will turn up on my iPod and it will rekindle my love for the San Pedro trio and I’ll just have to have another listen to ‘Double Nickels on the […]

Shuffle: Connections

February 4, 2022 David Cowling 0

Music has a wonderful ability to connect us, whether this is a communal experience at a gig or a song that can dredge up feelings so sharply that you can feel the pain or the elation […]

Shuffle: Conservatism

November 30, 2021 David Cowling 0

As we get older, we tend to get set in our ways, we become more conservative, often with a big C. I read somewhere that we set our patterns for our future at quite a young […]

Shuffle: Toomey, to you: an appreciation of Jenny Toomey

November 12, 2021 David Cowling 0

Jenny Toomey was prominent on the Washington DC Hardcore scene in the early 1990s, she played in several bands including Choke, Geek and most notably in Tsunami. It’s not this part of her career that I’m […]

Shuffle: Obscurity Knocks!

October 29, 2021 David Cowling 1

My last column covered the creation of a playlist culled from the mass of tracks on my iPod. I painstakingly worked through the 33,000+ tracks, and in doing so there were many explosions in my synapses, […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”

July 13, 2026 1

Roger McGuinn has been a musical staple for as long as I can claim to have been making my own choices about what I listen to, through the Byrds and various attempts to put together three-letter […]

Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”

July 13, 2026 1

No fuss, just an album of beautifully crafted songs straight from the heart. Five decades into a career that has seen Ed Snodderly as a songwriter, performer, actor, and owner of the legendary Down Home club […]

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]