Nick Cave’s Lessons in Grief The singer’s new book awakened me to a paradoxical fact: tragedy can sometimes remind us of what makes life worth living. Neil Gray 8 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
NARRATED: Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star Greg Ellis reads Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Demons, Neil Gray’s essay about the suicide of Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbit. It was published in Quillette on July 21, 2019. Quillette / Neil Gray 12 Sep 2019 · 1 min read
Coming Together to Honor a Dead Rock Star—And Ward Off Our Own Demons In the months leading up to the news, I was in a bad place. Nothing in life felt right, and every day was a fight against hopelessness—to the point that even when good things happened, I would remain afraid or numb. Neil Gray 21 Jul 2019 · 8 min read
How The Campaign Against Cultural Appropriation Came Back to Haunt Canada’s Indigenous Peoples The idea of segregating musical styles by race sits in opposition to what we know about the way music is made—which is often through cultural cross-pollination. Neil Gray 8 Apr 2019 · 7 min read
The Purity Spiral of Canada's Music Industry Now that they are channeling the self-censoring spirit of our times, the soul is being sucked out of the business, and the art, that I love. This essay is my attempt to explain how we got here. Neil Gray 30 Sep 2018 · 24 min read
