Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Sasami, Anyway Gang, Jordan Klassen, Sam Weber, The Brothers Comatose + AJ Lee, Triptides, and Francine Honey,

By Will McGuirk

“With all the ridiculous cacophony of information we currently swim in, it is no wonder that we've seen a resurgence of conspiratorial thinking, Most of us see this every day: online, from the mouths of relatives, maybe even in our own brains. I wrote ‘Niko’ as a bit of a tongue in cheek ode to finding out that someone that you know and love is buying in. Pleading my case that the earth is in fact round.” - Jordan Klassen

“despite anyone’s attempt to control a narrative or manipulate our perception of how things are, the truth and what is real always comes out,” - Sam Weber.

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Its beginning to look a lot like. . . with Valerie June, Tamia, Good Lovelies, Sasami, Bailen, and Andrew Bird

By Will McGuirk

Here in the Slowcity.ca there is an ice storm, the ground is covered in slippy white stuff, its crunchy and cold and its beginning to look like Winter is snapping at our heels. So here is some cheery Xmas sounds for y’all to go with the hot bevys and slippers.

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The Good Lovlies will be donating a portion of each sale of their new ‘Evergreen’ album sold during their 2019 Christmas tour towards the planting of a "Good Lovelies Forest," near Burk's Falls, ON. “This is one small step that we can take to offset our carbon emissions as touring musicians,” says Caroline Brooks. The Good Lovelies forest will be planted in the spring of 2020

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic - So It Begins - Black Belt Eagle Scout, Close Talker, Sasami, The Bros. Landreth and Dan Moxon,

By Will McGuirk

Back to life, back to reality, melancholic memories of summer, and expectations for Fall, - but storms south of us here remind us of the work we have all to do. We have had time to gather, to discuss, to air, and to reassess, we have had close talkings, talking closer, we have work to do, a lot of work and it starts now. Talk closer, the change it brings

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic - April Showers, May Flowers edition with Local Natives, In The Valley Below, HuDost, Russell Louder, Grizzly Coast Sasami and Black Mountain,

By Will McGuirk

Thinking positively, extreme April showers should bring extreme May flowers, so lets look forward to a season in bloom, record breaking blooms.

We begin with the cheerful sounds of Local Natives. They have contemporary dancer Micaela Taylor. We move into In The Valley Below, a pop duo, we will give you an explicit warning fyi, - the Valley have a short film, ‘The Pink Chateau, which they are touring, and the album is the soundtrack. Performances feature the two playing live to the film.via headphones. Also on are HuDost, Russell Louder, Grizzly Coast, Sasami and the majestic psyche-sonics of Black Mountain.

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Shows

Sasami - Thursday, April 25 @ Baby G, Toronto
Black Mountain - Thursday, May 9 @ Lee’s Palace, Toronto
Grizzly Coast, - Saturday, May 11 @ The Paddock, Toronto
Local Natives - Monday, May 27 @ The Phoenix Concert Theatre, Toronto

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