Writing
Music journalism for the Gauntlet, the University of Calgary’s student newspaper, 2011–2013, and Oh the Humanity, a one-person music magazine made at SAIT in 2017. Fourteen pieces, republished in full.
Oh the Humanity,
a magazine of one
A 24-page music magazine made at SAIT in 2017. Every article reported and written, every photograph shot, and the whole issue designed solo. Five of the pieces are republished below, with the original photography.
A Kensington music school and shop that started in a garage and found its niche, quite by accident, in ukuleles.
Memorial Park Library lends out guitars, violins, banjos and djembes. Since day one, not one has sat on the shelf.
A Calgary label built to carry the parts of a music career that burn bands out: recording, production, promotion, and the rest.
Central United Church has hosted Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Low, and Chad VanGaalen. What makes it work is the seating.
The sixth full-length from the Calgary indie-rocker: ambitious, eclectic, and raging against a world we built for ourselves.
The Gauntlet,
from the archive
From 2011 to 2013 I volunteered as an entertainment writer for The Gauntlet, the University of Calgary’s student newspaper: interviews, album reviews, and a campus feature. Each piece is republished in full below, and the print pieces include a scan of the page they ran on.
Sara Quin on Heartthrob, the "I knew them before they were famous" crowd, and why earning a living stopped being a dirty word.
A review of Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara’s seventh album and their move into electro-pop.
A review of Chimes of Freedom, a 76-track Bob Dylan tribute album made for Amnesty International.
Keith Goodwin on Come Back As Rain, three-part harmonies, and learning songcraft from the classic-rock canon.
A review of I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets: folk-pop songwriting meets electronic production, with mixed results.
The Montreal comedian on turning 23 million YouTube views into a career, ahead of the I Kill People tour's Calgary stop.
A campus feature on the club helping student musicians record, finish, and release their own music.
Andrew McMahon on scrapping the first version of People and Things: "Either I made a record and scrapped it, or I just made really good demos."
Vancouver power-pop veterans Odds, collaborators of the Kids in the Hall and the Barenaked Ladies, rock a campus bar.