With an evening hosted by Jay Malone and Justine Williamson, the 2021 East Coast Music Awards took to social media for a cootie-free virtual award show. Featuring performances by Beòlach, Classified, Hauler, Jimmy Rankin, Keonté Beals, Les Hay Babies, Like A Motorcycle, Rachel Beck, Rich Aucoin, Rose Cousins, Silver Wolf Band, and Zamani, the evening saw the first batch of 14 award-winners named, along with a special tribute to Rita MacNeil, performed by former bandmates friends and more to celebrate her induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. Continue reading ECMA Announces First Round of 2021 East Coast Music Award Winners
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Layne Greene Briefly Taps Into—and Out of—His Subconscious to Pen ‘Prospects’
Have you ever had a fantastic, life-changing dream with all the potential in the world to make you, wildly successful, immensely popular, fabulously rich, and a dark horse entry for Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, only to have it evaporate the moment you open your eyes? That’s basically the theme of Layne Greene’s new single, “Prospects,” except that, all the more annoyingly, it’s the details of perfectly ordinary things just slipping away, back into the ether. Continue reading Layne Greene Briefly Taps Into—and Out of—His Subconscious to Pen ‘Prospects’
Matt Steele Shares With Us the Burdens of a Sleepy Sound Tech on ‘Falling Asleep at the Metal Show’
Between 2010 and 2014, Matt Steele worked as a sound technician, burning the midnight oil to stretch long days into longer nights, all to serve his music community. However, as a self-proclaimed guy who struggles to maintain his energy levels off the stage, those long hours can be grueling, and, as the title of “Falling Asleep at the Metal Show” suggests, keeping your eyes open isn’t always the easiest task.
Matt Steele’s latest song is a “love letter to the music scene, an apology to Pipe Dreams, and a shout out to Mötörhead.” Continue reading Matt Steele Shares With Us the Burdens of a Sleepy Sound Tech on ‘Falling Asleep at the Metal Show’
Kelly McMichael Debuts in Fully Evolved Form for Album ‘Waves’
If post-Toronto was a genre, Kelly McMichael would be its poster child, champion, and priestess. Her debut solo album, Waves, is half confessional, half musing, as this musical chameleon ushers us about, through the eddies of her life in the wake of fronting past musical projects like RENDERS, Rouge and Thelma & Louise. This is the evolved form of a musician who has been shaped by experience and learned when to break the rules and when to make them her own. Continue reading Kelly McMichael Debuts in Fully Evolved Form for Album ‘Waves’
Sluice Mixes History and a Dance Party with ‘Le succès par le travail’
Mixing reminiscence on the highs and lows of growing up in a small town with bits of the town’s cultural history, Sluice’s debut album Le succès par le travail is working double duty. The release’s youthful energy and hyper-specific regional history make it an eight-track time capsule straight out of Trevor Murphy’s life.
Continue reading Sluice Mixes History and a Dance Party with ‘Le succès par le travail’