Carl Wilson, 'Crritic!'
Carl WilsonOff-the-clock cultural reflections from the Slate music critic & author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
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Dolly Parton, the original Material Girl
The world lost rhinestone royalty this week in Dolly Parton—as well as Tim Curry of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and so much more (Michael Barclay points out that Curry covered Rough Trade’s “Birds of a Feather” on his 1978 debut album Rea...
They just don’t care if they kill you
Sorry for the recent radio silence. Suffice to say I’m really feeling what Phoebe Bridgers’ father taught her, according to some of my favourite lines in the closing track on Lost Weekend: “The government isn’t trying to kill you / They jus...
Live is Short, Aug 2026
Just my personal picks from my full Toronto-area show calendar (released earlier today). Please see that post particularly for a more detailed list of summer festivals.
NB: the full calendar had the date wrong for the Tommy Stinson show in...
Lust for Live, Aug-Sep 2026
Selected shows, mostly music, in and around Toronto to the first week of September. On each date, the top event listed would be my likely first choice. Weekly series listed at the end. Submit listings and corrections to carlwilson@substack....
'This machine is killing me'
The World Cup is over and suddenly I find myself able to think about other things again.1 Tonight I was thinking about the two versions of “Lost Boys” that Phoebe Bridgers performed on The Tonight Show last week—one electric, with a backing...
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