Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Haviah Mighty, Mustafa, Haley Blais, Seether, Samantha Fish, Kim Beggs, Ben Arsenault, and Homeshake
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Cuff The Duke, photo by Colin Medley
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Cuff The Duke, Mike Boguski, Rose Cousins, Sierra Ferrell, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Homeshake, Waash, and Jennifer Castle
It all felt novel and it stirred a desperate desire to soak in every moment of the fleeting spring and summer, as if I might not get the chance again, wanting to remember it and wanting to be remembered in it." - Rose Cousins
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Cuff The Duke, photo by Colin Medley
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Cuff The Duke, Katie Cruel, Ryan Wayne, Joel Plaskett, Leif Vollebekk, Astral Swans, Homeshake, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Cuff The Duke, Katie Cruel, Ryan Wayne, Joel Plaskett, Leif Vollebekk, Astral Swans, Homeshake, and Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
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Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Begonia, Bella White, Charlotte Day Wilson, Homeshake, Berk Jodoin, Kyle McKearney, Luka Kuplowsky and The Ryōkan Band, and Kaïa Kater
When you feel like you're constantly showing someone who you are and they can't or don't want to see it.” - Begonia
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Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Cassie Noble, iskwē, Charlotte Day Wilson, Donovan Woods, The Hello Darlins, Dead Root Revival, Homeshake, and Leaf Rapids
Great new videos and tracks on the Open Mic this time out. Cassie Noble’s jigsaw puzzle and an intriguing work by Leaf Rapids. Murmuration is an apt metaphor for social media
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Clever Hopes, photo by Kyle Gatehouse
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with The Fretless, Absolutely Free, Homeshake, Nation of Language, Chin Injeti, Lexxicon, Clever Hopes, and The Ruddy Ruckus
By Will McGuirk
“‘Remaining Light’ expresses the frustration felt towards invincible and corrupt institutions that uphold structural inequities, including police brutality and manufactured poverty experienced primarily by racialized communities. Written during a heat wave in the summer of 2016, the song dishearteningly remains as relevant as ever today.” - Absolutely Free
“‘Sparrow’ is my little ode to freedom. It was the perfect ‘escape’ when I was held ‘prisoner’ in my basement, as I wrote it in my home studio while I was in quarantine.” - Chin Injeti
“The song touches on the blinding love that you feel when you’ve found the ‘one.’ It’s like nothing else matters because they are all you see, want, and care about. Almost as if, they have this divine control over you.” - Lexxicon
Absolutely Free, photo by Darren Rigo
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Jasper Sloan Yip, Cots, Silver Pools, Homeshake, Charles Spearin, Astral Swans, Absolutely Free, and Bazooka Joe 204,
By Will McGuirk
This edition of the Open Mic is brought to you by the letter K and the number awesome. Thanks for the years of support Killbeat.
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“We all spent a year inside. Not just in our homes, but inside of ourselves. For me, it began with the surreal experience of life imitating art in a scary way. I was ready to accept certain fates... But it didn’t go the way that I expected, and now, the strange calm that I was struggling with for so long is gone, and the world feels new again.” - Jasper Sloan Yip
“Human bodies are like celestial ones; just as a planet’s course is carved out in relation to others, our course - where we go and what we do - is compelled by forces of attraction.” - Steph Yates, Cots
“ I see Christianity and Capitalism as large-scale pranks pulled by the powerful and this video aims to celebrate some shining slivers of artful resistance." - videographer Cashew Soda: Silver Pools’ “Crushed Hat”
“I just try to make music that is honest about how I’m feeling.” - Peter Sagar aka Homeshake
“To have time on my hands and a studio at my fingertips certainly helped in making this record, but thematically, there’s a kind of reflection in the music that maybe comes from having spent so much time at home as well.” - Charles Spearin
”Typical coming-of-age feelings of loss and confusion were further conflated by prioritizing an emerging potential of a new virtual identity more ‘real’ than a physical self.” - Matt King, Absolutely Free