Hopefully, this does not come as a shock to anyone, but sooner or later, you’re going to die. The how and why of it might leave a little wiggle room but, without exception, you and everyone you know will eventually shuffle off this mortal coil. It’s something of an inevitability. The good news: what happens next is largely up to you.
That’s not a pitch designed to entice you into whatever brand of afterlife awaits you in the hereafter, but another kind of immortality altogether.
Terra Spencer is already well known as a Nova Scotian folksinger. In certain circles, however, she’s known for an entirely different skillset: seeing people off into the sunset of their lives as a funeral director. Spencer says that those two worlds are overlapping with the increasing popularity of “legacy songs”: bespoke anthems to help the deceased and deceasing make their final exeunt while avoiding going gentle — or at least not going quietly — into that good night. Continue reading Death & Dirges: Terra Spencer on How To Avoid Going Quietly Into That Good Night→
“I didn’t really know what to do with this song at first,” admits Paul Murphy—usually of Wintersleep—about his new single, “Inside Out,” from his solo music project, POSTDATA. It’s the third to be released from the upcoming POSTDATA album, Twin Flames, and it is perhaps that indecision that has caused Murphy to veer away from his usual path. Continue reading POSTDATA Take a Turn for the Joyful on ‘Inside Out’→
Admittedly, 2021 looks conspicuously a lot like 2020 with just a few alterations. Festivals have begun laying out their plans for the years… and quickly retracting them. Musicians continue to release music from their bedrooms. Theatres have announced productions that sound curiously like novellas or community television, depending on which approach they’ve taken.
Long story short, we’ve either mastered the skills at entertaining ourselves indoors or we’re doomed to go stir-crazy this time around.
When we said that 2019 was leaving us well prepared for whatever 2020 might bring, we might have been just a touch over-confident. We were looking at a year when festivals were making slight adjustments in the wake of Shambala shifting its dates. Instead, we saw a year without live music and… well, everything else.
In a year of big news from around the world, here are our top stories from 2020.
