The Canadian Folk Music Awards have been making the best of a bad situation. While festivals and live performances have been shut down for more than a year now, the CFMA has doubled down on its efforts to connect with audiences.
When the world first locked, they had just three weeks to pivot their annual Awards Show into a livestream. As early adopters of the digital way of life, they’ve put in the practice necessary to capture the vibrant energy of live showcases and an awards gala, without any of this silly business of getting out of our pyjamas. They’ve just announced a six-event CFMA Awards Week program featuring musicians from across the country and it’s entirely free to take in. Continue reading Canadian Folk Music Awards Leans Into the Stream, Announces 2021 Performers→
In September 1957, Buddy Holly released his hit single “Peggy Sue” along with its B-side track, “Everyday,” and then, a short 18 months later, he plummeted from the skies over Clear Lake, Iowa. He died in that plane crash and, at least according to Don McLean, took the entirety of music along with him. This is precisely why I never listen to Buddy Holly while travelling anywhere. As a wise man once said, “I’m not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.”
Since the release of their debut album In the Battles Years in 2016, we’ve written about a lot of Hillsburn music videos. Often directed and produced by former band member and songwriter Paul Aarntzen, they’ve largely focused on one creative element and run with them as far as they could be taken. Their latest video, “Get High,” takes that to an extreme and now, of all the Hillsburn videos we’ve seen, this one might just be our new favourite. Continue reading Hillsburn Capture the Moment at 10,000 Feet for ‘Get High’→
Off of Twin Flames, the third album from Wintersleep frontman Paul Murphy’s solo project, POSTDATA, comes a visual cornucopia as longtime collaborator and director Christopher Mills takes a crack at “Inside Out.” It’s an ode to all-consuming love, a message for those wary of behind burnt away with it and, even possibly, an anthem for the demisexual. Above all, by Murphy’s own description the song is uplifting and unabashedly openhearted, leaving us to sort out this puzzle box of new visuals through that lens. Continue reading POSTDATA Want You to Know Which Direction the Love Flows on Joyful New Video for ‘Inside Out’→
The dedication Noah Malcolm makes on his latest single reads, “To anyone who has ever left home, wherever that is.” It’s a concept that seems so arbitrary and yet often forms a large pillar of our identities; that any place, whether through some quirk of our birth or years of familiarity, becomes the preferred context of our existence.
