There comes a point in the lives of many people when they look up from their game of Edward Fortyhands and realize that they’re the oldest person sitting at the beer pong table. Their friends have long ago lost interest, grown-up and moved on to a fabulous lifestyle of lawn maintenance and RRSP contributions.
Having spent a good bit of his life working from the road, both as a sheet metal worker and as a high-kickin’ rock-n-roller’, Andre Pettipas is no stranger to homesickness. As much as musicians love touring, on some level, the desire to run screaming for your most familiar four walls remains a near-universal affliction.
If John Hughes had been born in Cape Breton, and instead of a filmmaker he had turned to music, he would probably wish that his best efforts to produce a coming-of-age song could sound a lot like “Fuse,” the latest single from The Town Heroes. It’s got small-town magic, the heady bloom of young love in the late ’90s, and all the excitement that a brain full of hormones can handle. Continue reading The Town Heroes Go All John Hughes for ‘Fuse’→
Jazz and shawarma have a lot in common. To get good shwarma it is often advised that one travel to a larger centre than what the east coast offers where the nuances of the garlic sauce and perfectly pickled beats get put in equilibrium with shaved meats that are spiced to perfection.
Not all ideas are good ideas. Much like the rest of us, Thomas Stajcer has had a solid year and a half to allow some of those not-so-good ideas to percolate, fester and multiply. Now, after so many months indoors, he’s like a cuddly little Mogwai, racing off to your local watering hole and nothing good is going to come of it. His latest single, “Heading to the Bar to Do Bad Again,” is about as self-explanatory as you can expect from a title like that.
