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Joseph Shabason, photo by Colin Medley

Joseph Shabason, photo by Colin Medley

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Josh Tavares, Joseph Shabason, Braids, Katelyn Biehn, Sia Shells, Real Estate, Bealby Point, Show Me The Body, and Manchester Orchestra

Will McGuirk February 24, 2021

By Will McGuirk

Can one dream without guilt, should one create without commerce, why just make when making a difference is of more import.? We look to the artist but who does the artist look to, to oneself, to one’s family, to one’s heritage, to one’s home. . .


“Cuz everytime that I get sad, I get so scared I'll fall into my past” - Con Man, Josh Tavares



“Upon receiving DJ Python’s remix of our track Young Buck, my pining for the dance floor kicked in, I pulled my car over to an empty parking lot and turned the volume up as far as it could go. Alone beside the concrete barriers of a now desolate shopping mall, I was reminded of bodies beside bodies, of a night that you never want to end, of sweat, of joy. For a moment I was transported from my new and uncomfortable reality: distanced, living through a pandemic, to memories streaming behind my closed eyes, of a life lived prior, and one that will be lived again. This track offers the fuel needed to keep going, the energy needed to stay hopeful. When I close my eyes and dance to it in my living room, I am at the club and the club is with me.” - Braids



Sia Shells · Magic Girl

“Life keeps changing and additional responsibilities and stresses keep being added, but this band is still here. When I was writing a lot of these songs, I was feeling a little weird about being in a band. Like, ‘how is this still a thing?’ I was feeling silly about it and then coming around to it at the same time. This is what we’re good at and it’s what we love to do and want to keep doing. I don’t want to do anything else.” - Martin Courtney, Real Estate


Bealby Point · I'm So Bummed Out Right Now

"During this isolation we had to recalibrate. Recalibrate both how we exist as a band and how we cultivate power within our community. Our live performance is not just a moment for us, it’s our weapon, our language, and our ceremony. Without it, we had to reconfigure how we interact with our community. We established CORPUS headquarters. With our team, we started CORPUS Family, a branch of CORPUS focused on community initiatives; Burning World Book Club, a clothing drive, and a studio residency. We are preparing CORPUS Self-Defense initiatives as well as open jam sessions as soon as safety will allow for it. We built a studio in our headquarters. Survive is the first project to be written and recorded top to bottom in the CORPUS studio. The songs deal with spiritual and physical isolation, as well as staying ready and preparing for the next time we come together." - Show Me The Body


“Bed Head is two old friends existing in two separate realities. It’s a conversation about the lives they lived, the consequences of life’s decisions, and finding purpose in trying to be better.” - Andy Hull, Manchester Orchestra

Tags Le Ren, Buck Meek, Big Thief, Auteur Research, Hive Mind, Show Me The Body, Indoor Recess, Josh Tavares, Joseph Shabason, Hard Copy Media, Real Estate, Braids, Katelyn Biehn, That Eric Alper, Bealby Point, Sia Shells, Manchester Orchestra
Austra

Austra

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Austra, Liza Anne, Venus Furs, Le Ren, Patrick Krief, The Waterboys, Avi Kaplan, Callum Pitt, and Mav Karlo

Will McGuirk July 29, 2020

By Will McGuirk

It can be mobility, but it can also be stability. One can find pleasure in place, in staying in place, one doesn’t lose face by not visiting place after place, one can still be face to face with the same face in the same place and find pleasure. For once it may be where you are and not where you are going that has priority. Be Here Now maybe.


HOWEVER. . . when one has to move one can do so with this brilliant track from Austra in the earbuds. Or better blasting from the car stereo of the Uber driver as you step determinedly into the back seat. Breaking up is hard to do they sing but easier with this track at your back.


“how we hurt people when we’re not taking care of ourselves. I was spiraling, anyone with a bit of care for me saw that and tried to say something but I was walling myself off to any real advice. Making an echo chamber of ‘you’re not doing anything wrong’. Nobody grows in an echo chamber.” - Liza Anne


“It's about a woman who loses everything in a game of cards narrated by the dealer who cheats her while taking advantage of her inability to stop playing.  At the end of the song, the dealer nearly shows his humanity, turning away to hide the guilt of his actions.  The video attempts to tap into the emotions the dealer attempts to hide - guilt, regret and consequent turmoil. - Paul Kasner



“This is a song about truly selfless love, and letting that person know what the kingdom they have created looks like. Purple beaches and violet skies, heavy storms but none of it matters.  The palace is safe, and I’m happy to be in it.” - Patrick Krief





Tags Patrick Krief, Auteur Research, Austra, Killbeat, Le Ren, Liza Anne, Venus Furs, The Waterboys, Avi Kaplan, Callum Pitt, Mav Karlo
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