UPDATE: Hello Burnside Community, Jordan is on an artistic retreat this week and so I get to give you all a behind-the-scenes look at what’s happening with the “new Burnside”, sometimes called “BWC 2.0″ in the flurry of e-mails exchanged between editors and some our regular...

For most of this last year or so, I have been under the impression that Beck could never top The Information. I thought that there could be no way that an album so free and precise could have a topper, or even an album able to stand beside it. What I did not count on, though, was that DJ Danger Mouse...

Some people write mysteries, some write biographies, some write tragedies. Some write masterpieces. What happens when a social activist with a knack for literature spends four years writing a semi-autobiographical novel of her native India? Usually, not much. Unless the author happens to be Arundhati...

Let’s be honest with ourselves. Do we really know the logistics, the details behind the resurgence of dance/danceable music within the indie rock community and/or the larger music world? Sure, I’m more than aware that history is completely and totally cyclical – one of humanity’s...

After writing formulaic reviews for many publications, it gets tiring to achieve the same sort of goal in constructing a music review. Every once in a while, a writer needs to be set free. Micah Dalton’s ‘Pawn Shop’ is the perfect forum within which that can happen. So a while ago,...

One of our wedding presents, and a very generous one at that, was a Big Green Egg. Over the last year at the grocery store, I got into the whole foodie thing. Working around great food will do that. I was fortunate enough to work with a guy named Phil. Phil was some sort of barbecue Grand Champion...

Everyone’s doing it. Just a few clicks on the keyboard an an album can be yours–for free, and oftentimes before it’s even been officially released. File sharing: it sounds so much nicer than music piracy. We know what the record labels think of this. It’s illegal. It’s...

Wolf Parade; A youngling gang of aspiring musicians from the Quebec region who were dedicated to a specific sound from day one (and whose premiere album hit it big). What could be a cooler rags to riches story? To add a layer of subtext to the already riveting plotline of Wolf Parade, let’s back...

“No,” you say. “Let’s just stay here and study, then you can go back with me to my house at 8.” “Back to your house?” she asks. “Yes, I’m hosting a Bible study.” “Oh, ok” she says. — You spend the next hour working algebra problems while Julie Anne sends text messages her...