By Will McGuirk

Its been a fine few days of music; starting with a livestream by Oshawa band, Dizzy, on Friday, and today getting a peek inside a possible new venue in Oshawa while shooting an episode of a new Bell Fibe TV 1 show on the Oshawa music scene, this episode starring Lindsey Schoolcraft. On the weekend I was working, selling records in the shop and chatting with customers about possibilities and projects.
This is my community, I am of it and in it and I am in it because of music because music culture, unlike sports, is not divisive, music unifies. Music creates space for conversation, not competition. Music is its own venue, its own channel, its own content. And music is at its best when it hears itself as art and not product. We are getting closer.

“The voice of the song is overwhelmed with questions - seeking answers in teachers, family, love. Exhausted and uncertain, the song arrives at the recognition that the voice itself is the vehicle for change and actualization.” - Luka Kuplowsky

“It's about missing people deeply because you realize that you need them more than anything.” - Close Talker

“It’s a song about something I struggle with, which is how I want to present my body to the world, especially as the only woman onstage most nights in our band.” - Libby Rodenbough, Mipso

“Every day, I picked up my acoustic guitar and wrote. I said something. It all felt urgent.” - Anthony da Costa