My friend Leah and I at a Taylor Swift Tribute Show. I’m very excited to share this surprise post for On The Record! On June 11, 2026, Taylor Swift was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The last two paragraphs of her speech brought me to tears, because her words described exactly what I had written in a letter to her nearly two years ago. I’ve never shared that letter with anyone, feeling weirdly superstitious that if I did, the chances of her seeing it one day may

“So I walk upon high, and step to the edge, to see my world below. And, I laugh at myself, while the tears roll down, cause it’s the world I know. It’s the world I know.” – Collective Soul On May 9, 2025, I experienced a moment of nostalgia so intense that it knocked the wind out of me and left me a sobbing mess for the entire day. Young & Dumb, the new song by Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan reminiscing about being up-and-coming artists doing their first tour together, seem

At age 7, I woke up on a snowy Saskatchewan Christmas morning in 1995, completely unaware that I was about to receive a very special gift. Ok – let me clarify: I knew gifts were coming (it was Christmas after all), but toys like barbies were the only things that my young mind could picture. It was 6 a.m., and my older siblings and I could no longer contain our excitement. We made every effort to quietly sneak out of our bedrooms and down the stairs, thinking we were the mast

A few years ago, I was introduced to a song by Barns Courtney called 99 . I was sitting in Medicine Hat’s Esplanade Theatre waiting for a concert to start when the song suddenly blared over the sound system: “Back then, we were trading cards behind the swings/Oh no, now it's money, gold, and diamond rings/Now those days are over/And we are all ghosts/ Come on, love we’ll be just fine/we’re gonna live just like it’s 1999.” As soon as the words hit my ears, I was filled with i

A few months ago, I shared a song that is very special to me: Coat of Many Colors by the one and only Dolly Parton. In a post I published...

Throughout the course of this blog, I’ve tried to paint a picture that shows just how multifaceted my musical journey has been. Just when...

For five years, I was the keyboardist in a band. They were some of the best years of my life. Garage band? Nope. Girl obsessed with EDM?...

When I was 16, I stole a car. That’s one memory that comes flooding back whenever I hear Little Sister by Queens Of The Stone Age. To be...