When JT finally arrived, the atmosphere shifted immediately from low-budget art experiment to federal dream sequence. Assistants materialized carrying coconut-milk lattes and dense clipboards. JT entered wearing a winter coat […]
Sabrina visited Nordic, her old teacher, on a rainy afternoon in October, driving two hours through grey farmland while rehearsing memories instead of scales. In her mind Nordic still existed […]
By the time they reached Vancouver, merch tables could suddenly outperform years of carefully engineered artistic labor. Then came the idea for the video. Not a normal music video. Neither […]
A month later, Clara and Marcello found themselves sharing a bill in Thunder Bay at a venue shaped psychologically like a bowling alley The green room contained a framed photograph […]
At the show at Hugh’s Room I met Moses Znaimer and he offered me a show at the Zoomer Radio theatre studio sometime. I thought that pretty cool! I actually […]
At first he thought the drinking just enlarged existing traits. His partner had always been suspicious of institutions, drawn toward grand theories about power and hypocrisy. In the early years […]
She lived as though someone always was grading her. Somewhere behind every chord she played there seemed to be an invisible examiner with folded arms and impossible standards. If she […]
He lied recreationally. Like a jazz musician adding extra notes because silence made him itchy. He claimed he almost joined Frank Zappa’s band but “the astrology looked hostile.” He informed […]
Playing Hugh’s Room next weekA strange gratitude about TorontoIt has been less a backdrop to this lifethan asprawling rehearsal hallevery decadeleaves one more ghostleaningagainst the wall smoking A unique listening roomstill standingwhere songs still have a chanceto arrive intactinstead […]
He moved through life like a man perpetually arriving at the scene of a crime committed by others, forever explaining that his disappointments had been engineered by his ex-wife, directors, […]