Tame Impala

Just revisiting another of the stories I wrote for Concrete Skateboarding. Click here to read my article about Australian psych-rock wizard Kevin Parker and his musical project Tame Impala. Impressively, Lonerism certainly sounds like the product of a group of people. It’s all Parker, though, and while the Fab Four vocal harmonies and acid-washed guitar …

Chelsea Wolfe

For this week's Georgia Straight, I interviewed Los Angeles–based singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe about her most recent album, Pain Is Beauty, and her film project, "Lone". Here's a bit of what she had to say: “A lot of the album was inspired by natural disasters, and the way we think we have our lives under control, …

Farewell to Concrete

A fun freelance gig I've had for the past couple of years has been writing the Sound Check column for Concrete Skateboarding magazine. Sadly, Concrete has decided to stop covering music, and so Sound Check is no more. I have decided to post a few of the article I wrote for Concrete, starting with this …