Holly Gordon

Senior Writer

Holly has been a senior writer and copy editor with CBC Music since its launch in February 2012. She has previously worked as a copy and listings editor at Halifax's alt-weekly, The Coast, as well as a full-time arts reporter at the short-lived but mighty TheWig.ca in Ottawa and a writer/copy editor for now-defunct OpenFile. She has freelanced for Quill & Quire, Visual Arts News, The Chronicle Herald and various other publications.

You Oughta Know: An oral history of Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’

December 17, 2015Music

The rocker’s breakthrough release turned 20 this year. Here is the loose, uncompromising way it was made. “She didn’t want to copy anything,” said co-writer Glen Ballard. “It was the least derivative thing I’ve ever done.”