“This one had deep connection to us both, and I think it shows.” - Aysanabee.
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Ghostkeeper, photo by Kaytlyn Turner, Justin Skrundz
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Ghostkeeper, Real Estate, Frazey Ford, All We Are, Milan André Boronell, Jacob Weil, Ehsan Matoori, and Clinic,
By Will McGuirk
"’U Kin Be the Sun’ explores the vast and eternal within us, the reoccurring ancient mythology of the individual as the universal, as light, as the sun..” - Frazey Ford
“What is to live, if not to eat and drink and breathe and to love.” - All We Are
"Love is Love! When you saw someone and fell in love with them, it did not matter what their sex is. Love comes from the heart. The soul only demands love and takes peace from it.” - Ehsan Matoori
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Career Boy, Braids, Elvis Costello, Billy F Gibbons, Mike Edel, summersets, Justin Rutledge, Donovan Woods, and Real Estate
By Will McGuirk
“For me it's usually the emotional and sonic qualities of a song that catch me first and the rest of it later. After getting deep into the lyrics I enjoy that it's calling out the fake and the shallow; I like doing that in my songs. So this one goes out to the influencers.” - Mike Edel
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
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
“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
"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
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Ellis, Missy Bauman, Soccer Mommy, Minuscule, Picastro, Harrow Fair, 100 Mile House and Real Estate,
By Will McGuirk
Sometimes we have so much to consume, so much to take in, so much media to see and hear that it becomes difficult to take a breath on a song, never mind trying to digest any of it, and we are slowcity.ca, we encourage you to sit and digest what you took in first, better for your overall health, but even we can feel the need to keep up, to dip in, and in and in again into the stream and then along comes a voice which just stills you regardless, slows you, slows your heart, slows your head, and one can sit on the bank, beneath a tree and watch the whole thing stream by with eyes closed..
“I want the record to feel like a relic from the past that’s been damaged and degraded with age, because it kind of represents the problems that I've developed as I've grown up, and how they've changed me.” - Soccer Mommy
Soccer Mommy is playing Wednesday Apr. 8 at the Phoenix in Toronto ON.
"The song is a recognition of the difficult work any relationship can be but what can happen when you take that leap. Even when the future isn’t clear. Hope starts here. No courage without fear." - Harrow Fair
Harrow Fair is playing Saturday Apr. 18 at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto ON.
100 Mile House, photo by Jessica Fern Facette
“I was asking myself a lot of uncomfortable questions throughout the process of making this album. Wondering if being an artist is irresponsible or selfish, particularly with the world in the state that it’s in, particularly as a parent of young kids.” - Martin Courtney
Andy Shauf, photo by Colin Medley
Slowcity.ca Open Mic - Sometimes there's only music - Tami Neilson, Brielle Ansems, Andy Shauf, Soccer Mommy, Real Estate, Jesse Cook, Denise Leslie and Aerialists
By Will McGuirk
Sometimes sometimes sometimes when all else no longer matters, and the world wells up and the flood overwhelms there is only music, just music which will get you up and out. If all else is beyond you, focus all you have and reach out one finger to press play on whatever device you have and let the music in. Have at it.
“This song is for anyone who measures time against a deep loss of love that was an integral part of the fabric that makes up your life.” - Tami Neilson
“More Than My Heart” is about accepting the limits of what is in our power to give to another person. Sometimes all we have to offer is our heart, and that is enough. - Brielle Ansems
‘How hard is it to give a shit?’ - Andy Shauf