By Will McGuirk
“For me it's usually the emotional and sonic qualities of a song that catch me first and the rest of it later. After getting deep into the lyrics I enjoy that it's calling out the fake and the shallow; I like doing that in my songs. So this one goes out to the influencers.” - Mike Edel
By Will McGuirk
Black Sabbath’s ‘Vol 4’ is being treated to a five LP super deluxe reissue set to be available next year. There will be unreleased studio outtakes, additional studio recordings, and live recordings drawing from set lists from the album tour. via Super Deluxe Editions .
Elvis Costello’s new album ‘Hey Clockface’ dropped sometime back, now Iggy Pop covers the track, “No Flag” but in French! via Brooklyn Vegan
PJ Harvey will reissue ‘Is This Desire?’ from 1998 in 2021 along with a separate demo compilation. via Pitchfork.
Ever watch Song Exploder on Netflix, its a show about the stories behind a song, a song such as R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” and “LA” by Ty Dolla $ign, it grew from a podcast. There’s a season two coming. via Kerrang!
Next year the JUNOs, the 50th anniversary of the Canadian music award show, will take place in Toronto, May 16 2021. The 2019 edition scheduled for Saskatoon was cancelled last minute. via FYI Music
By Will McGuirk
Every now and then you get some new tunes you can just get behind, an introduction which causes one to declare Ooooo baby gimme more. . . we have a few today including this lead off track from the OBGMs which features a collab with TO rapper Clairmont the Second. The OBGMs’ debut album will be out Nov 30
The saddest of the hunkiests, Bahamas, will release his latest album ‘Sad Hunk’ on Friday Oct 9 2020. Bahamas aka Afie Jurvanen has a new single, the very welcome “Trick to Happy.”
“This is a song about picking an argument with time, the very clock face, either running too fast or too slow, depending on the company you keep”. - Elvis Costello
‘En Masse’ is the latest album from Mike Edel, his fourth, it will be available Nov 20, 2020 on Pennant.
“If I could co-write a song with Springsteen and The National, then put a bit of pixie dust on it, ‘Good About Everything’ is it. I co-wrote the song with two friends in San Diego after a night of eating ramen, riding around on scooters, getting denied from a capacity tiki bar, and after seeing some friends’ show. We ultimately decided to write about what a good night we had the night before.” - Mike Edel
Grizzly Coast
By Will McGuirk
Feeling small, feeling contained, feeling boxed in, ready to go out again, ready to go out again with a better sense of the out, of the outside, of the outsider. Are you getting it now? Are you seeing, hearing, feeling the value of the outside now? And if you do go out are you ready to binge?