Andrew Waite’s recently released single, “Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That,” just got treated to a new music video that’s an adventure of epic proportions. It might not be the latest film from Peter Jackson, but Waite’s excursion to an abandoned mansion to confront a mirror-version of himself contains more excitement than most of have seen in the last year, beyond the occasional death-defying trip to the grocery store.
Adam Baxter’s fourth single from his upcoming socially distanced album, Connections, offers a solid bit of advice, especially considering the year we’ve endured. “As Long as Nothing Gets Hurt” may sound like something an exhausted parent might tell their sucrose-fueled children, eager to run amok (to be fair, it seems that most everyone falls onto one side of that divide or the other right now, depending on their level of coping skills), but it’s a great reminder that everything is fun and games until someone loses an eye, regardless of your age.
Since a yet-undetermined point in time, music has largely been used as a tool for escapism. Whether one imagines themselves within the comfort of a benevolent forest or flying through the sky on nothing but the clothes on their back and the will of thin air, the many scenes that music can paint for us has drawn us towards it day after day, year after year.
But artists of all sorts always find ways to subvert the expectations of our experiences, arguably by the very nature of the profession. This time, it’s Russell Louder’s “Home” that does just this; subverting the notion of escapism into something much more tactile and powerful; a prime way of establishing the essence of their upcoming debut album, Humour. Continue reading Russell Louder’s ‘Home’ an Impressive Precursor to Debut Album→
April 2020 was a month of unprecedented shifts across Canada. Coming off the back of COVID-19’s arrival in the country, individuals and organizations from coast to coast were coming up with their own responses to this now-familiar way of life.
CBC Newfoundland saw an opportunity and took it, framing that month’s RPM (Record Production Month) Challenge as “Stay Home, Make Music.”
Duane Andrews, guitar virtuoso of Newfoundland, has been steadily releasing a series of singles over the past year and while each of them handily showcases Andrews’ robust skills of performance and composition, there seems to be a thread of magic woven through his latest. Performing with the Conception Bay String Quartet, Andrews honours his long-time friend, Lynn Horne, with “The Heart of Eastern Passage.” Continue reading Duane Andrews and the Conception Bay String Quartet Honour Lynn Horne With ‘The Heart of Eastern Passage’→
