The message behind Andre Pettipas and The Giants’ single “Sympathy Card” has always been clear: the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley—and over the course of the past year, things have been agley more aft than na—making it all the more necessary to have plans upon plans upon plans. That goes doubly so when it comes to the music industry.
Newfoundland’s Quote the Raven have penned a cross-Canadian co-write with Country Music Alberta Roots Artist of the Year-nominee Blake Reid, turning out an ode to blue-collar living. Their new single, “Home is Worth the Blues,” is a song dedicated to those who bear the grind so that their lives at home might be all the more joyful for it. Continue reading Quote the Raven Sing a Blue-Collar Ode on ‘Home Is Worth the Blues’→
If you were to ask someone what music is, right-brained individuals may give an answer like “vibrations in the air,” while a left-brained person may give a reply akin to “sound with magic all its own.” Both would be correct, but it’s hard to deny that music is truly at its best when we first describe it as the latter.
Halifax singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andrea Cormier takes this to its purest form on her album Creatures of Illusion, speaking absolute magic into the universe over the span of the 8-track ensemble, with her lush instrumentals weaving her gentle dream of a sound all together. Continue reading Andrea Cormier Unlocks Pure Beauty on ‘Creatures of Illusion’→
