New Fucked Up video, directed by Colin Medley

By Will McGuirk

TO hardcore rockers Fucked Up have a new track available with a video directed by our pal Colin Medley. The video for “One Day”, also the title for an upcoming album, was shot at the Great Hall and features dancers Amanda Pye and Tavia Christina with choreography by Lauren Runions. The band have a couple of shows this weekend at Nineteen Seventy-Eight. Tickets here.

Slowcity.ca Open Mike with K.D.A.P., Wet Leg, Art d'Ecco, Slow Death Lights, Nick Ferrio, Cowboy Junkies, Bobbo Byrnes, and Bad Waitress

By Will McGuirk

“It's about understanding the obstacles we set up in front of ourselves. Personal deception and self-sabotage. It's about opening up and trying to figure out how to be a better human being, be more vulnerable.” - Nick Ferrio

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Bernice, The Besnard Lakes, Monowhales, the Record Summer, Mirabelle, Favourite Daughter, Erica Knox, Venus Furs, PhotoSynthesizers, and Emmett Lucius Pharaoh,

By Will McGuirk

There’s too much, are you feeling it? is it all just zoom and gloom? thinking hold your nose, go underwater far from the maddening crowd, I will slip this into the stream silently a message in a bottle and see where the currents take it, hello its me you.

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““A small metal bowl floats away into the lake and sinks – but below the waves she sits on her cool bottom, her shape shifting self not full of water but of the water, edges dissolving as her identity reforms, grows, reforms, grows, reforms, like the fascia of a body reinventing itself with each twist and bend. A sign, a cross, a road, a potato – who are you?” - Robin Dann, Bernice

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“The song is an ode to logic and intuition and being able to learn from the past”. – The Besnard Lakes

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“This song is the feeling of being made to choose where there's no choice at all, but taking a vicious grip on hope in spite of everything going on in our lives.” - Monowhales

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"‘White Dress’ is about the juxtapositions that occur during marriage. . . how you bounce from a grandiose day with a gorgeous dress to absolute boredom and exercises with self-control. The question of spending the rest of your life with somebody versus standing with the sun shining in your hair, bright and beautiful.” - Bret Rodysill aka the Record Summer

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Erica Knox · Running Inside Of My Brain

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“The song was written in the summer of 2020 and is inspired by the power of collective consciousness working together to overcome the pandemics our society faces; COVID and systemic racial injustices against black and brown people.” - PhotoSynthesizers

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Emmett Lucius Pharaoh · Sleepless Nights

Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Arctic Monkeys, Motorbike James, Hot Chip, Bernice, Anomalie & Chromeo, Color Fields, Andy Mineo, Focus Your Audio,

By Will McGuirk

Brothers and sisters, others and blisters do you recall the whole of it, the gatherings, the wondrous, the moments of us, the one of us all, it exists even outside of the concert hall, stay there, be as of that one, support the tumbling body surfer, let no one fail, let no one fall.

“On June 7, 2018 we played a very special show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. All the proceeds from that memorable night were donated to War Child UK in support of the vital work they do protecting, educating and rehabilitating children who have experienced the trauma of conflict and the horror of war. The situation that was bad in 2018 is now desperate and those children and their families need our help more than ever. To enable War Child UK to reduce their funding deficit and continue their valuable work, we are happy to be able to release a live album, recorded that evening at The Royal Albert Hall. All proceeds will go direct to the charity. We thank all our fans in advance for their support of this release and in turn for their support of War Child UK” ~ Arctic Monkeys.

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"My exploration brings me to a body of water and a boat.
It’s cold to be on the water, moisture hangs in the air as the aged motor groans to life. The human experience continues - inputs & reactions. Basic computing. The temperature drops, the birds fly south. My interpretation of reality flickers and fades from one frame to the next. I throttle up the tired vessel and cruise, I can’t help but smile as my memories fall back to a place where I was seasoned at the helm of a pleasure craft. But those memories, impossible to place, are part of an intangible existence that I somehow find familiar. As though deep within my spirit I’ve been here. But no, I am lost and have been for as long as I can remember. Truly alone with my thoughts. I focus back on the frigid air and icy water. The pink & grey of my surroundings. So perfectly curated they surely come from the hand of a great engineer. Perhaps just as the experience is seemingly all a series of inputs and reactions, this existence has been designed and engineered. A simulation." ~ Motorbike James

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Artistic imperfection - Colin Medley, Jared Raab co-direct new video for Andy Shauf

Andy Shauf, photo by Colin Medley

By Will McGuirk

“The song is about half-forgotten moments, so Jared and I wanted to make something dreamlike and imperfect,” - Colin Medley

“If you listen closely to the song, the lyrics drift seamlessly in and out of memories, so we wanted to find visuals that could capture the same sparse quality. We noticed that these scans were almost impressionistic, like computer generated pointillism. Along with our technical director Luca, we stumbled on a brilliant artist RubenFro, who was using the Unity game engine to render point clouds. The results are surprisingly natural, like ghostly moments frozen in time.” - Jared Raab

This video for Andy Shauf’s subtle “Clove Cigarettes” speaks to the ebb and flow of the stream, of the drift of the current and of the many, many, many drops which make up this massive stream of information we swim in. This marvellous concoction shatters the screen, pulls back the curtain on not only how a digital landscape is created, but also illustrates how the littlest things, the smallest of the small has import, how each and every single thing in the big picture matters to the big picture. In other words how even the least among us has equal weight,

Slowcity.ca Open Mic and Photo Gallery by Colin Medley - with Micah Erenberg, Close Talker, T. Nile, Absolutely Free and Badge Époque Ensemble

By Will McGuirk

Great tunes for you on this wet Wednesday and to brighten up your rather moist humpday we are featuring a photo gallery of our pal, Colin Medley, he who documents the Canadian indie scene with aplomb and a careful eye for the everyday life of musicians, no rockstars in Medley’s orbit. Dig into new tracks from Micah Erenberg, Close Talker, T. Nile, Absolutely Free and Badge Époque Ensemble and let us know what you think.

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Absolutely Free, Photo by Colin Medley

Shows

Absolutely Free - Thursday, May 9 @ The Garrison, Toronto (CMW)
Badge Époque Ensemble - Saturday, May 11 @ The Garrison, Toronto (CMW)

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Badge Époque Ensemble, Photo By Colin Medley