Charlotte Cornfield, photo by Brittany Carmichael

Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Charlotte Cornfield, Reuben and the Dark, Le Couleur, Whipped Cream, Bodywash, Sabai & Runn, and Chris Picco,

Will McGuirk March 8, 2023

By Will McGuirk

“A catchy love-song, with cars. Where it feels like the narrator could go anywhere and do anything.” - Charlotte Cornfield

"’YES’ is one of the band’s favourite songs to play live, so we decided to track a live off the floor version of it to capture some of that energy we give it during our show. Songs always take on a new life once you start performing them in front of an audience". - Reuben and the Dark

“Loneliness after a party transforms into a dismantling of things, and rearranging them somewhere else.” - Bodywash

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Le Ren and Buck Meek, Reuben and the Dark, Mike Edel, Clara Jones, Great Lake Swimmers, Jordan Klassen, Left Field Messiah, and the Blips

Will McGuirk February 25, 2021

By Will McGuirk

“because I’m stuck here on the ground, cold and drunk as I can be”

Yearning to fly, yearning for flight, respite, and the artist in the despair of early morning rain cries out yes to light and turns their back on the night.

"YES,” which came from a desire to put something positive into the world. "I thought I would be writing more songs about despair. . . but we don’t need anymore hopelessness right now." - Reuben Bullock, Reuben and the Dark

“Parachutes was one of my formative albums, and I really like the idea of covering a song that is underrated. ‘Don't Panic’ feels like this kind of song, and it just kept coming back to me through this Pandemic era and has been a comfort to say the least.” - Mike Edel

Clara Jones · Ordinary Person

You know the feeling when you're lying awake at night in a spiral of anxiety and can't understand why the regular stressors of life are so intense for you? When you begin to compare your problems with others and find yours unworthy of the 3am despair you're feeling?

It isn't rational, but I think it is something we've all gone through this year.

I wanted to illustrate that slice of life with my new single, "Ordinary Person."

You are not the only one engaging in catastrophic thinking, and I hope this song can be a comfort through this. - Clara Jones

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Reuben and the Dark, Andy Shauf, Hunting, Scenic Route to Alaska, Sorry, Geoff Berner, Kane Incognito, ZINNIA, Astrocolor, Alex Cuba,

Will McGuirk October 23, 2019

By Will McGuirk

Art is the new news. If you wish to know whats happening in the world go to a gallery. If you want to survive the tsunami of information grab onto whatever floats.

“The great writer Thomas King, who is self-identifies as being of Cherokee, German and Greek descent, gave a series of lectures that became a book called The Truth About Stories. One of the lectures is called ‘You’re Not the Indian I Had In Mind’. It’s about the way white people often reject ways of being Indigenous that don’t meet their stereotypical expectations.

“I always loved that line, ‘Not the Indian I had in mind’. It really nailed something perfectly. I have experienced a similar phenomenon as a Jew. In my travels, people wanted to know if I was really Jewish, because they had notions in their minds of what was really authentically Jewish, and what was not. And anyone who was not, was maybe trying to trick them or something. They would decide if I was a real Jew.”

- Geoff Berner

"Life will always throw unforeseen circumstances at us that we cannot control. But what we can control is how we perceive them. Love or Hate. What do you choose?"

- Eric (Kane Incognito)

“I spent most of my twenties processing my dad’s death – thinking, writing and singing about it. In some ways, I feel like I processed it so fully that I grew a thick callus around the part of the loss that was very raw and fragile. At times I’ve resented the tough skin which was necessary to get through that hard time.”

- ZINNIA