In September of 1988, Bobby McFerrin released his hit single, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Ronald Reagan was president. The United States was experiencing one of the hottest heatwaves on record. The Soviet Union was marching steadily towards its collapse. Donald Trump was a real estate mogul and wrestling promoter. Somehow knit fedoras were a thing.
Fast-forward to July of 2020. Mear have released “Perfect Mess”, their debut single as a duo. The song’s mantra-like chorus of “Don’t worry, don’t worry, don’t worry” speaks a world of difference with the omission of just two words.
Like A Motorcycle have been keeping busy in quarantine. Full speed ahead on a shiny new label (Known Accomplice) the band are now three singles in on a year. While noting that the band have “slowed down” much like everyone else for the duration of Quarantine 2020, they’ve already released “Wide Awake” and “Idols” and are now following up with a fresh new “anthem of depravity”—complete with lyric video—”Satan Does The Numbers.” Continue reading Single: Like a Motorcycle Cook the Books and More on ‘Satan Does the Numbers’→
Jont knows his forte. The lanky Englishman, who has made Halifax, Nova Scotia his home, works fairly strictly in the medium of positive vibrations, often reinforced by unbridled bare-foot dancing. His latest video, “Surrounded by Love”, is a fine example of that and very likely the sort of musical catharsis the world could make use of at the moment. Continue reading Music Video: Jont Dances up a Lot of Positivity on ‘Surrounded by Love’→
This year has come with a lot of unintended consequences for people. The impacts of COVID-19 have been far-reaching and the lasting effects, both health-wise and the reverberations the pandemic will have on our collective societal psyche, have yet to be fully understood. One thing we might have anticipated, however, was the red-eyed, no-limits-but-your-own lifestyle of hardcore Netflix binge-watching that a quarantine might induce.
