In our reality, this is the video for Keane's "Love Too Much." In the reality I visited last night, Kenneth Branagh directed...

Ba, ba--bum ba ba Pum pum ba ba bum ba ba Lum de dum ba pum pum pum ba, ba--bum ba ba  

More and more often these days, I'm stricken by dark melancholy. Fortunately, music helps, and for this particular shade of darkness, I ...

With human civilization approaching collapse, I feel a bit guilty indulging in upbeat art. But sometimes I can't help myself, and I need...

Sometime in the mid-1970s, we travelled from Leaf Rapids to Thompson to buy an electronic organ. Mom or Dad shot a Polaroid of us playing wi...

  As I've said in the past, I don't have the knowledge or vocabulary to explain why I like certain pieces of music. All I can say ab...

Gwendolyn Womack's new novel, The Last Labyrinth, is a well-paced, well-written romantasy time travel story that uses music as its magic...

We learn in Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Beyond (2016) that James T. Kirk is a fan of Beastie Boys, the American hip hop band formed in ...

  I stumbled across Keane last year--late to the party as always when it comes to music--and I fell in love with two tracks: "Somewhere...

I first heard Iris DeMent's "Let the Mystery Be" when it came up as the new opening theme for season two of The Leftovers. The...

Mom and Dad had a modest collection of 8-track cartridges. A common way to listen to music in vehicles from the late 60s to the early 80s, 8...

Sometime between 1980 and 1983, probably on a road trip with the family between Alberta and Manitoba, I picked up these two Chu-Bops . Each ...

I'm a wand'rin delta bluesman Miles and miles from home 'Cept for my bedrool and my guitar I wander all alone  Stickin' clos...

Like brave mountaineers We never were much bothered by the climb  

 

Just a man With a man's torn shirt Nothing but a man Covered with bruises and blood No one but this pain-wracked guy Can save our wo-orl...

Like brave mountaineers We never were much bothered by time  

Ghostly choir, Ghost ship  PC, cactus harmonize But no audience  

While driving from Leduc to Edmonton on Saturday night, YouTube music's algorhytim slid "This One" through my speakers. To the...

"Just a Motion Away," from Gino Vanelli's 1984 album Black Cars , tells the story of two people in the process of possibly rec...