Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Kacey Musgraves, Mimi Webb, Sam Weber, Alex Cuba, Samantha Fish, Mastiff, Terouz, Handsome Jack, Matthew E. White, and Flossing

Will McGuirk September 10, 2021

By Will McGuirk

“Through confronting my deepest, heaviest truths through these songs I am able to see the world in a new way. 'Here's To The Future’ was that song for me, but also a toast and a prayer to the better and brighter days ahead.” - Sam Weber

“When I began to imagine this album, I knew I didn’t want it to be small in any way. Neither did I want it to be known forever as the album that was born out of the pandemic. I was convinced that it definitely was the moment to aim at creating something very special, unique and vibrant, fuelled by the very deep emotions that this time has brought out of all of us.” - Alex Cuba

“If you need cheering up, this may not be the best place to start. Unless, of course, the sound of the world consuming itself from the inside out and spitting in the face of humanity is your idea of a good time” - Mastiff

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Chastity, Ekelle, Charlotte Day Wilson, Ada Lea, Joy Crookes, Alex Cuba, Fleece, Graham Wright, Talleen, Mary Jennings, Jon Stancer, and Rise Carmine,

Will McGuirk August 26, 2021

By Will McGuirk

“‘When You Were Mine’ is a song I wrote about an ex-partner that ended up being with a man after we broke up. It’s a song about accepting their love, but wishing the same for myself. I wrote it with the backdrop of Brixton because that is where their love unfolded and where I spent a lot of my childhood. We recorded a brass section (it was my first time recording brass and excited was an understatement); we wanted it to sound messy so Japanese whiskey was involved and listening to lots of Ebo Taylor.” - Joy Crookes

“My social media feeds are crammed with dire and insistent warnings from scientists, experts and activists, and newsreels showing floods, fires, hurricanes and other horrific, climate related catastrophes. All of this chatter and imagery were swirling around in my head at the time of writing this song.” - Jon Stancer

“We wanted to reflect how our society can sometimes be shrouded in mystery and symbolism, money being the driving force behind the illusion.” - Alex Crow, Talleen

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Whoop-Szo/Zoon, Alex Cuba, Alexandra Lost, Zaac Pick, Fresh Breath, Lynn Jackson, and the Airborne Toxic Event

Will McGuirk May 25, 2020

By Will McGuirk

Finding your own way alright? Are you ok here inside the looking glass? Are you managing to navigate the cats and rabbit holes in this place where time seems upside down and sideways, this place of mad leaders. Are you taking your chances on pills and potions? Are you missing Outside?

<a href="http://thenoisymountain.bandcamp.com/album/warrior-down-remixes">Warrior Down Remixes by WHOOP-Szo</a>

“We had already been working and reworking a version of our song ‘Cut Your Hair’ and were craving some interaction from our space of self-quarantine after cancelling well over 50 shows. We decided to reach out to contemporaries who also do their ‘own thing’ in the electronic world “ - Adam Sturgeon/ Whoop-Szo

Alexandra Lost · 04 Trying 2 Grow

““Atmosphere” acknowledges the space in between, how it expands and contracts, blurring and coming into focus over time.” - Zaac Pick

<a href="http://lynnjackson.bandcamp.com/album/lionheart-2">Lionheart by Lynn Jackson</a>

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Reuben and the Dark, Andy Shauf, Hunting, Scenic Route to Alaska, Sorry, Geoff Berner, Kane Incognito, ZINNIA, Astrocolor, Alex Cuba,

Will McGuirk October 23, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Art is the new news. If you wish to know whats happening in the world go to a gallery. If you want to survive the tsunami of information grab onto whatever floats.

“The great writer Thomas King, who is self-identifies as being of Cherokee, German and Greek descent, gave a series of lectures that became a book called The Truth About Stories. One of the lectures is called ‘You’re Not the Indian I Had In Mind’. It’s about the way white people often reject ways of being Indigenous that don’t meet their stereotypical expectations.

“I always loved that line, ‘Not the Indian I had in mind’. It really nailed something perfectly. I have experienced a similar phenomenon as a Jew. In my travels, people wanted to know if I was really Jewish, because they had notions in their minds of what was really authentically Jewish, and what was not. And anyone who was not, was maybe trying to trick them or something. They would decide if I was a real Jew.”

- Geoff Berner

"Life will always throw unforeseen circumstances at us that we cannot control. But what we can control is how we perceive them. Love or Hate. What do you choose?"

- Eric (Kane Incognito)

“I spent most of my twenties processing my dad’s death – thinking, writing and singing about it. In some ways, I feel like I processed it so fully that I grew a thick callus around the part of the loss that was very raw and fragile. At times I’ve resented the tough skin which was necessary to get through that hard time.”

- ZINNIA