Brian Eno 77 Million Paintings In Calgary
Amid St. Paddy’s Day revelers, and incognito, inbred-moron, chronically shorn, marching white supremacists, our roving cultural reporter, writer Geoff Moore, took in a special event which is a part of...
View ArticleA Delete Bin Exclusive: The Classic Rock Interview
Rock ‘n’ roll stories, are just like other tales of questing heroes. They follow a pattern. It’s just like Joseph Campbell said. This starts from young enthusiasm, to paying one’s dues in squalor, to...
View ArticleClassic Rock: Dead Letter Office
Tryin’ to get to you. Pleading with the postman about news of your boyfriend, so far away. Lonely days are gone, I’m going home. And all because of a venerable social practice and convention of...
View ArticleRock Movies: Does the Song Remain The Same?
The rock movie once held a certain communal mystique. Even the biggest budget of rock ‘n’ roll film still represented something of a niche market. In days of yore before the home video age, this made...
View ArticleRock Collectibles: Meaning-Making and Memorabilia
Like the Catholic Church, rock ‘n’ roll is often most recognized by its artifacts, its iconography, its symbols of power, and yes, images of its saints and martyrs, too. Seeking artifacts of rock ‘n’...
View ArticleThe Rolling Stones 50th Anniversary: Time On Our Side Marches On
The Stones were once symbols of anti-establishment pop cultural terrorism in a world that asked, fearfully: ‘Would you let your daughter marry a Rolling Stone?‘. But, today they are now the grand old...
View ArticleFarewell, My Brother: A Life In Rock and Pop Music
When it comes to our development as music fans, the influence, opinions, and record collections of older brothers are often primary and very positive forces for our own musical sojourns. As is often...
View ArticleSearching For Bob Dylan – In Lethbridge Alberta
And the tour continues! Bob Dylan has a new record coming out in the next few days, on September 11, 2012, which is an anniversary of sorts on more than one front. He released his celebrated latter-day...
View ArticleRock ‘n’ Roll Memoirs: Time Fades Away
The Christmas season is upon us, and just in time for that music geek in your life, a whole batch of rock biographies have recently hit the market. In the wake of Keith Richards’s staggeringly popular...
View ArticleLed Zeppelin Reunion: To Be Or Not To Be?
In days of yore when the rock ‘n’ roll world was young, bands broke up for good. Solo careers ensued. Years, decades, and trends passed like pages in an anachronistic desk calendar. And the stomping...
View ArticleThe Next Day: Album Art In A Digital Age
For the most part when it comes to buying music, gone are the days of vinyl, cardboard, cellophane, and anal-retentive mylar sleeves . The creation of album art has had to adapt, just as it did when...
View ArticleThe Boss Of Me: A Tale Of Two Titles
In his triumphant return to the pages of The Delete Bin, merely popping in perhaps from his sojourn as a book-writer and blogger in his own right (write?), Geoff Moore deliberates over his career as a...
View ArticleBetween Stations with Three O’Clock Train
And now, one-time regular columnist Geoff Moore makes a triumphant return to the pages of The Delete Bin. This time, it’s in conversation with Mack MacKenzie, the principal of legendary alt-country...
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