Japandroids, photo by Camilo Christen
By Will McGuirk
Context is king. What is around you. What is behind, above, below you? Are you an icon, an avatar - is there more to you? Are you just a photo op, a cardboard cutout, a cartoon. . . what is your context?
Braids, photo by Melissa Gamache
By Will McGuirk
Take this moment and nail it to the wall. Take every moment and nail it to the wall. Not because its your last but because it isn’t and years from now you will look for it and it will be there for you to tear off and recall and smile.
Liza Anne, photo by Phoenix Johnson
By Will McGuirk
Woodshedding done, time in front of the fire in contemplation, time spent thinking, time listening to one’s own thoughts, taken, time now to begin. Begin, begin again, start, start again, seed the thoughts and see which ones take, which ones grow, which ones prosper. I have my idea now, I will drop it soon, and maybe it grows.
“This song is the feeling of having too much of a good thing. It is a reckoning with the responsibility that comes with interacting with people through a period of your own unhealth paired with the hope that you can handle yourself better in your future tomorrows.” - Liza Anne
Liza Anne will open for Bombay Bicycle Club June 16 at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto
““Goodbye” is a song about relinquishing music and giving up the dream, written at a time of much uncertainty and worry about what would become of my songs. Its lyrics mark the realization that it will never really be all over. The music wants to be alive and free.” - Grace Gillespie
Missy Bauman will celebrate the release of her new album "Sweet" Apr 16 at The Burdock in Toronto
“It seemed to be a similar story from different eras, and each character had unique ways of coping and remembering. Many of the 8 songs on the album pay tribute to stories that are true, dark and heavy in nature, and depicted through the voice of a sympathetic narrator,” - Mike McKenna Jr.