By Will McGuirk

Days is getting longer, urge is getting stronger, steppin’ out, staying in. . . to make for the sake of it. . . to keep on keeping on. . . to face the struggle. . . to turn around and see you are back where you started. . . all that time and nothing. . . one imagines the incremental steady climb will be successful but it is the violence, the explosion, the revolution, the suddenness of the act and change emerges on the other side. . . been spending too much time catching up.. . it’s as if we need to be shaken vehemently from our slumber.

“It’s a lament in the form of a lullaby. A lullaby that sounds a warning. I hope it doesn’t come true but some of it already has.” - Paul Kelly

<a href="http://lecouleurmusic.bandcamp.com/track/silenzio-3">Silenzio by Le Couleur</a>

<a href="http://shaderocknroll.bandcamp.com/album/combat-rave">Combat Rave by Shade</a>

TUNNEL · Super Charged Powerball

By Will McGuirk

Slow for a reason, slow for the season, but planning, gathering, building, building, building - isn’t that what a snow fort is for? And did you notice as you stood on the turrets the sun shone longer.

“There’s certain songs that just appear and there’s no art to it. To me those songs have some kind of spiritual quality—sometimes I feel like they’re these different voices that you’re able to channel. There really was something magical about the improvisational aspect and how that shaped the album, and such a joy in the experience of really reveling in what we were all creating together.” - Frazey Ford

"a conversation with the gods of creativity, an attestation to the daily struggle to be inspired and how not to lose direction." - Dana Gavanski

“I think I always want to see hope in the darkness, and I like to try to share that,” - Nathaniel Rateliff

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Paul Kelly, Le Couleur, Fontaines DC, Shade, Tunnel, and Dirty Projectors

Slowcity.ca Open Mic - Frazey Ford, Dana Gavanski, Ben Lee, Paul Kelly, Bombay Bicycle Club, Nathaniel Rateliff, and Richard Dawson