September 13, 2020
Joni Mitchell Triple

Joni Mitchell Releasing Archival Recordings

There’s something inherently historical – and cultural – about Canada and Joni Mitchell, much the same way there is with Neil Young. Both seem to have carried a significant amount of this country with them into their careers.
May 18, 2021

Review: Pure Fidelity Horizon Turntable

The Pure Fidelity Horizon extracted information from the groove in a musical, accurate and resolution-oriented manner in line with its purview of spinning an LP at a sustained speed. But, much like sense, there is nothing common about the accomplishments of the Horizon.
May 23, 2021

Be Still Cody: Coffee & a Mixtape

Coffee, Wes Anderson and mix tapes. Three things coveted by individuals of a certain age bracket. Upon hearing from a friend that Victoria coffee roaster Be Still Cody (named after a line from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) included custom mix tapes with their beans, I immediately ordered some.
February 16, 2022

Hi-fi Haunts: The Little Jerry – Toronto, Canada

Talk less and listen more is an unspoken code amongst patrons of Japanese listening bars and cafes known as kissaten or kissa. It is to these kissa which ‘listening bars’ opening around the globe in the last several years can trace their roots, including Toronto’s The Little Jerry, a kissa of a more social stripe.