“I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me” - Erich Fromm
Read MoreRory Taillon, photo by Randy Nickerson
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
Bedhead, photo by Jen Squires
Slowcity.ca Open Mic 'Each One Reach One' edition -with Bedhead, Hawksley Workman, L.A. Foster, Sandra Bouza, Matt Zaddy plus Chris Landry and the Seasick Mommas
By Will McGuirk
Strip away the commerce, move that over there. The world has enough commercial music, there is no need to make any more pop. But the capacity to absorb the individual’s expression of their thoughts, that capacity is infinite. Here’s a thought - fill this infinite space called the internet with the infinite content of art. Each one reach one.
“Some days it can be hard to get out of bed, but you do it anyway. BEDHEAD is the idea of carrying around the weight of what’s on your mind.
I started writing “Fight No More” a couple summers ago during a really low point in my life; I found myself feeling incredibly overwhelmed and frustrated with my depression. I had been stuck in this headspace that felt like it would never end, even after years of treatment. Suddenly, something just snapped. Enough was enough. I said “fuck this,” and “Fight No More” was born.” - Bedhead.
“The song is a meditation on belonging and the dark, slippery moments when love challenges. . . When it slips from a feeling, into work, into a mission statement of mutual truths.” - Hawksley Workman
The song “was inspired by falling in love with somebody in an impossible situation. Someone who wasn’t ready to love - not even ready to love themselves - but still falling for them completely.” - L.A. Foster