Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Kate Boothman, Jack De Keyzer, Matt Berninger, Austra, Sylvan Esso, Rhye, the Blue Stones, Figure Walking, Flara K,

Will McGuirk September 11, 2020

By Will McGuirk

Kate Boothman, has released her latest single, the brightly breezy “My Next Mistake”. May be just what one needs to hear on this morning, scratch that, it is what you need to hear. Up and at them folks, up and at them.

Blues guru Jack De Keyzer has a new album dropping Sept 15, 2020. "Titled “Tribute” this is Jack’s twelfth album and features twelve original tracks. The first single “Lets Do It” is now available with video by Steven Frank.

Matt Berninger of The National will release his debut sole album, ‘Serpentine Prison’ on Oct 16 2020. The album will be on Book records/ Concord records. The first singe is “One More Second.” There’s a beauty tippy-tapp organ break provided by the legendary Booker T Jones, who also is the album producer.

“I wrote “One More Second” with Matt Sheehy (Lost Lander, EL VY) with the intention for it to be a kind of answer to Dolly Parton’s ‘I Will Always Love You’, or sort of the other side of that conversation. I just wanted to write one of those classic, simple, desperate love songs that sound great in your car”. - Matt Berninger

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Austra’s new album ‘ HiRUDiN’ is now out and available on Pink Fizz records. A remix for the track “Risk It” has been released. And its a banger!!

“India Jordan recently put out one of my favourite records in a while (complete with a very on point Tipping The Velvet reference) so I was very honoured they agreed to do this remix. The new track is sunny and euphoric and everything I dreamed it would be!” - Katie Stelmanis (Austra)

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Electro-pop duo Sylvan Esso have released “Frequency”, the third single from their new album, ‘Free Love’, coming out September 25, 2020, on Loma Vista Recordings. The song is accompanied by a new video directed and styled by Moses Sumney.

“We had a fantastic and rewarding time collaborating with our friend and fellow North Carolinian, Moses Sumney, on building a visual world for Frequency. He had such a beautiful vision for the project, one that ran parallel to the song's initial source in a way that showed us new spaces it could inhabit. It's a beautiful exploration of being together and apart at the same time – we feel it rings clearly in this moment.” - Sylvan Esso

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Harrison, the Cassidys, Stephen Fearing, Rose Cousins, Blood Orange Dirty Projectors and Yorkston, Thorne & Khan

Will McGuirk December 13, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Had my hair did, the hairdresser said to me when done, well that should last the rest of the decade. Only struck me then where we are at. Time has broken down for me into smaller and smaller chunks, I think I live a decade in a day. One time I had one job for 25 years and now I have twenty five different jobs in a year. We stay busy, time flies, years roll in, decades are marked but are you marking the passing of each moment , the advent of a new moment, with the same celebrations. Happy New Moment.

“I think about how we're so disconnected. I get sucked into my phone and forget to go for a walk because of this sense of obligation that I have that convinces me to get as much work done as possible. It feels like we’re not connecting in person as much as we used to and that we may be the loneliest we've ever been. We're missing what's actually happening, like, the earth being on fire. We get caught in the spin of comparing our lives to social media depictions, false standards of a good life. I’ve been thinking about how we must be getting close to a breaking point." - Rose Cousins

Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Back on track with Holy Fuck, Union Duke, Friendly Rich, Pablo Paddy, Sam Weber, Loving, Sasha Cay, Blair Lee and Heather Valley

Will McGuirk December 4, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Holy Fuck! So much to do. I have lots of events at Kops Records Oshawa coming up, I’m involved in the 2020 Oshawa Music Awards and I have a new TV show for Bell FIbe1 on the Oshawa music scene about to start shooting. its always about building platforms, but its also about maintaining them. So lets get back on track and dig into some new tunes here.

<a href="http://pablopaddy.bandcamp.com/track/lost-holiday">Lost Holiday by Pablo Paddy</a>

"There isn't a single narrative driving this album, but we do linger on some basic human problems: confusion in the face of a desire for self-knowledge and belonging, a struggle for meaning that is circular and sometimes seemingly endless," - Loving

Slowcity.ca Open Mic - Start me up with Les Stroud, Raphael Saadiq, Mondo Cozmo, Saffron A, Common, Grace Potter, Juke Ross, Christian French and The New Pornographers

Will McGuirk August 26, 2019

By Will McGuirk

I took a stroll to the lake today, the water is high, the waves were loud, the lake seemed more like an ocean but I thought Yr Not The Ocean, the sun was low and there was the feeling of summer’s end. But it is not an end, it is a beginning, it is always a beginning.

Slowcity.ca Open Mic - St. Lucia, Charlotte Cornfield, A Tribe Called Red, Language Arts, Tre Mission, JoJo Worthington and Bad Animal

Will McGuirk April 29, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Well the magnolias are out on my neighbour’s tree so there’s that to celebrate on this rather chill evening, I hope those flowers survive. But also lets celebrate St. Lucia, they have an acoustic EP available and will be touring a stripped down intimate set. Charlotte Cornfield ( a fave around here) also drops in. Stay around for A Tribe Called Red who drop an absolute killer remix of Keith Secola’s “Indian Cars” which will have you up on that old wooden dance floor in seconds, (summer hit alert!), plus we have Language Arts, Tre Mission, JoJo Worthington and Bad Animal. Stay warm.

St. Lucia - Thursday, May 16 @ the Mod Club, Toronto
Bad Animal - Tuesday, May 21 @ the Baby G, Toronto
Language Arts - Thursday, May 23 @ the Monarch Tavern, Toronto
Charlotte Cornfield - Friday, May 24 @ the Baby G, Toronto