I used to work in a call center, part of my job was to enter customers phone numbers and addresses into the system prior to them being called by the team. As I would be doing this, I'd be wearing a headset and in one ear every morning I'd be listening to Lauren Laverne's BBC 6 morning radio show online. Every morning I'd be introduced to a steady flow of introductions to brand new and old and music that I had never heard before. THE BEST (imo of course). One day at work, probably in about...

About a year ago - I had just received the digital master for my debut solo album called Gem ii ini from Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel Mastering in Toronto. Noah mastered my first full length album with The Good Luck Foundation in 2009. I did a quick blog about the album at that time, but here is an updated story with a bit more insight about the album now that the Vinyl and CD are now available worldwide. Going back as far as 2020, I knew that I wanted this album to be called Gemini, in...

Many indie Rock fans may already be familiar with the music of The Wrens. For those who aren't, I believe their music and their story as a band should be shared with all music fans. To me, it is one of the admirable band stories filled with plenty of hardship, camaraderie, triumph and an alternate ending that I don't think any Wrens fan could have ever predicted. Here is my retrospective look back and forward of the band and what admiring their career from the side lines has been like for me...