By Will McGuirk
Bad Waitress at Lee’s Palace Friday June 24 2022. Tickets here.
OBGMs and Nobros at Lee’s Palace Saturday June 25 2022. Tickets here.
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with the OBGMs, Bahamas, Hawksley Workman, Elvis Costello, A Family Curse, Mike Edel, Josh Tavares, Mike Block,
By Will McGuirk
Every now and then you get some new tunes you can just get behind, an introduction which causes one to declare Ooooo baby gimme more. . . we have a few today including this lead off track from the OBGMs which features a collab with TO rapper Clairmont the Second. The OBGMs’ debut album will be out Nov 30
The saddest of the hunkiests, Bahamas, will release his latest album ‘Sad Hunk’ on Friday Oct 9 2020. Bahamas aka Afie Jurvanen has a new single, the very welcome “Trick to Happy.”
“This is a song about picking an argument with time, the very clock face, either running too fast or too slow, depending on the company you keep”. - Elvis Costello
‘En Masse’ is the latest album from Mike Edel, his fourth, it will be available Nov 20, 2020 on Pennant.
“If I could co-write a song with Springsteen and The National, then put a bit of pixie dust on it, ‘Good About Everything’ is it. I co-wrote the song with two friends in San Diego after a night of eating ramen, riding around on scooters, getting denied from a capacity tiki bar, and after seeing some friends’ show. We ultimately decided to write about what a good night we had the night before.” - Mike Edel
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Haviah Mighty, David Strickland, Le Couleur, Grace Gillespie, the OBGMs, Alex Izenberg, Mike Block, Bros Landreth, Owen Barney, Chris Grey,
By Will McGuirk
The vocabulary around electronic media is drawn from water - waves, streams, surfing, navigating, and the fuel for electronic media growth has been music. Music is as ubiquitous and necessary as water. Music is utility.
“Thirteen speaks factually and candidly, to the painful journey of Black people in North America. And it speaks to how that journey has morphed into continued racial prejudice, using the media and using the law. To get rid of white supremacy is to identify it at its root. I hope when people watch Thirteen, they feel moved to do their part in reversing white supremacy. I hope we can begin to see one another as equal – a dream I've always hoped could one day be a reality. And I hope people realize that it's going to take WORK! Who is willing to work, to make change?” - Haviah Mighty
“Much of my time is spent trying to reassure myself through rationalizing and acceptance, heard in the song’s verses, coupled with outbursts of inward frustration that I express in the choruses. I think it’s a pattern we have all been through throughout lockdown. We are trying with all our hearts to make the most of this gift of time and be ‘grateful for the day’ but then realizing that we are sipping coffee and trying to create (or just get on with work) while ambulances are filing past.” - Grace Gillespie
“As dancers, we express ourselves through movement. We tried to capture what it was like for us in that moment and empathize with those who were going through the same thing. It’s easy to forget we don’t fight this by ourselves, and this video is our way of reaching out to say we are there with you.” - Liam Caines, Royal Winnipeg Ballet