Stephen Lewis has handed the internet a gift of some of it’s favourite fodder: a funky mash-up video. Continue reading Stephen Lewis Posts Funky New Mash-up
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Why You Should Be Listening To Kill Chicago Right Now
Greg Webber is going to die on stage. He’s going to be up there drenched in sweat, veins bulging from his neck, singing his guts out, when something is going to pop. He’s going to do it for you, and for rock and roll, and for all the blood, sweat, and tears that go into performing. Seeing Kill Chicago live is like watching an act of self immolation. Continue reading Why You Should Be Listening To Kill Chicago Right Now
Afternoon Delight 2015 – Small Town Charm in a Music Festival
“Alright folks, I’m kind of hungry. I think I’m going to have a light snack.”
Amidst the rolling hills of the Kennebecasis River Valley, people from all over gathered just outside of the peaceful hamlet of Sussex. The morning sun shone brightly, warming my skin as the smiles of strangers, friends and families warmed my heart. The positivity in the air consumed me. Like everybody else, I couldn’t help but smile ear to ear.
And then Miss Cassandra Strange proceeded to eat a light bulb. Continue reading Afternoon Delight 2015 – Small Town Charm in a Music Festival
Deanna Musgrave: Expressing The Ephemeral, The Intangible, The Invisible
Art is a lot like religion. It’s an expression of our perception of the world around us. Some is very deliberate, with a strong sense of tradition, finding comfort in long-established rules. Some is created in opposition to those rules, and some, like wild shamans, are happy to find a basis in their own unique experiences. What becomes apparent when you spend time talking with artists, is that, whichever the case, that perception, and the expression of it, is vivid, sacred, and compulsory. So when asking Deanna Musgrave about her artistic process, it wasn’t surprising when she began working out my astrological profile. Continue reading Deanna Musgrave: Expressing The Ephemeral, The Intangible, The Invisible
Bob Boudreau: Making It Big In The Small Time
When I was growing up my father built a model railroad. Its first incarnation was nothing more than a plywood sheet with a couple of tracks running around a station, but it dominated our small garage. It later came to reside in the basement of our new house where it expanded; stucco mountains and lichen forests appeared, a small town settled next to the lake in the valley, and the number of trains passing through increased with every model train show we attended.
We’d buy stacks of old issues of Model Railroader Magazine, and while I’d be envisioning the vast miniature empires I might someday rule over, my father would point out photos from the magazine and say, “That’s one of Bob Boudreau’s. He lives here.”
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