Category Archives: Thoughts

To Have Or To Hold?

January 23, 2013 Jeff

For the better part of the last 4 decades, physical media collections have been proud displays of one’s tastes and passions. These displays of Records, Tapes and CD's were at one point, a very common thing to find within a persons home, but in recent years a downsizing movement has taken (more…)Read More

Alternate Take: My Relationship with Music (Part 1?)

January 21, 2013 Trev

Jeff's post on his relationship with music really got me thinking about my own relationship with it. My relationship with music dates all the way back to pre-school (early 80's if you were wondering) and one of my earliest memories was sifting (more…)Read More

Toddlers – The Pop Music Barometer?

November 23, 2012 Trev

With my little one, we don't tend to expose her to a lot of the sacchrine enriched kid friendly music such as Barney and the like, instead we've always taken the approach to let her listen to what we listen to (within reason of course - she's not down with the (more…)Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 7 – The Mixtape vs. The Playlist

November 22, 2012 Trev

Fans of the film High Fidelity might remember the reverence that Rob bestowed upon the mix tape "...I spent hours putting that cassette together. To me, making a tape is like writing a letter -- there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be (more…)Read More

Top 5 NY Songs

November 7, 2012 Jeff

So it appears that I did not set the auto-upload properly the past few days, thus resulting in another top 5 list to close out my favourite songs about New York City. #5 - The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You People won't be breaking out into full on rave parties (more…)Read More

Top 5 Debut Albums of the Past 25 Years

October 17, 2012 Jeff

Arcade Fire - Funeral What happens when you mash a little rock, in with some good old Canadian influenced indie music and top it all off with a flare for the outlandish? Arguably one of the greatest albums to ever come out of Canada. Funeral was the perfect jumping point for Arcade (more…)Read More

30 Day Facebook Song Challenge :: Day 25 :: A Song That Makes You Laugh

October 11, 2012 Trev

This one is a bit of a cheat, as it's less the song that makes me laugh as much as the reaction it gets from my lil' monkey. The song du jour is "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars, or as it's known in our house "The Monkey Song". The danger (more…)Read More

Summersonic 2012 – Day 2: Mo Kenny, Old Man Luedecke, Matt Andersen, Daniel Lanois, Martin Sexton & Ben Harper

October 4, 2012 Trev

If there was only 1 day of the 3 that I was going to attend, Day 2 was it. The moment Ben Harper was announced, I made plans to ensure that I'd be at the Garrison Grounds to see Mr. Harper "Burn One Down". It was another exceptional night for a (more…)Read More

RIP – Sam “The Record Man” Sniderman – Thanks for the Tunes!

September 26, 2012 Trev

Earlier this week, Canadian Icon Sam "The Record Man" Sniderman passed away at the age of 92. Similar to what propels us here at HAFILAX, it was Sam's love of music that drove him to create the Sam the Record Man chain. His record stores are ones that I always loved (more…)Read More

Being a Music Geek Used to be Difficult – Part 4

August 23, 2012 Trev

The iPod also brought with it another amazing feature which is both a pro and a con. It brought with it iTunes which essentially put the local record shop in your home, no longer did you have to visit Championship Vinyl (or other local record shop),you'djustneed to fire up your (more…)Read More