By Will McGuirk
"This project has at times felt Sisyphean, endlessly pushing my boundaries - both personal and creative. Challenged by the balance between the intimate and the public, Slow Transmission explores themes of being in a relationship with one’s inner demons.” - Brandon Wolfe Scott
“I suppose this song is a reminder to be careful with nostalgia and to be more present day to day.” - Dylan MacDonald, Field Guide
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
By Will McGuirk
“Blush is about saying 'sure, the world we've created is full of bullshit, but that's not some inevitably, it doesn't actually have to be this way, and we have an antidote, and it's each other.” - Matthew Lyall, Gold & Youth
“I wanted to write a song to myself as a reminder, almost like a mantra, to stay in the present and accountable.” - Brandon Wolfe Scott
“. . . I feel like the song is universal with its message that it’s the little things and moments that matter, the time we’re able to spend with one another.” - T. Buckley
R Grunwald, photo by Jen Squires
By Will McGuirk
Hi. Well welcome back, welcome to 2020, the roaring twenties maybe the roaring fires maybe, the roaring masses maybe, lots to roar about - in satisfaction maybe in rage definitely. Its been awhile because I’ve been working on the Oshawa Music Awards. Lots of news coming but until then ease into this.
“The narrative is not me preaching, but more about stepping outside my own echo chamber of ignorance. Looking to the future generation I think it's important to inspire change and hope in the face of sadness and ecological grief." - Brandon Wolfe Scott
"I've been sober for eight years now, and I've made that long walk home from the bar or wherever I was coming home from many, many times in my life. So it's a really personal song for me. When I was writing it, I could really see the movie in my head." - Lynne Hanson
“It’s trying to connect with other people on a human level, doing something that we love, and trying to embrace the unknown.” - Spinning Coin
Laurent Bourque, Photo by Rebecca Chan
By Will McGuirk
Perseid meteor shower, night. The meteor shows up often in the n rock ‘n roll lexicon of journos, like hail, no one hails from anywhere in real life but in rock n roll speech everyone hails from somewhere, like meteors do too, better to burn out etc, but tonight as I look upwards and wait for those brief glimpses of something else alive in this system of ours I listen too to all of you out there burning to make and making in this oh so brief moment we have together and the connect happens, you appear on the horizon and you are seen and you are heard.
“Skateboarding has been a teacher, learning to smile through pain. Push past fear. I’ve taken many lessons and feel like I owe it so much in return. “weightlessness” is a small gift back to a culture that has given me so much; friends, community, confidence, and individuality. And I’m always just looking for an excuse to get on a board." - Reuben Bullock
“‘Thoroughfare’ is about following something pure and beautiful down a narrow, colourful path, but getting a little lost along the way and leaving a bit of yourself behind, quietly lost in time,” - Matt Holubowski
“We can't believe what is happening. We don't know what to do. Scientists reveal they have built a spaceship that can take the top candidates for continuing humanity to New Earth. We've never been there, but we have heard transmissions that suggest life exists like ours. Who are the lucky ones that get to board starship Harmonia for planet B? “- Elephant Stone
“It's an earnest, autobiographical song about self-preservation, something I'm trying to get better at but constantly struggle with.” - Brandon Wolfe Scott