By Will McGuirk
Change is gonna come some day, (comes quicker if we push for it). Anyone else spending long hours contemplating direction, purpose, intent. . . The disparity between people’s income and the despair of outcomes, and how much change can we spare when so much is needed.
Vancouver singer/songwriter Monica Lee is. She will use the next Bandcamp Friday (Sept. 4) to donate sales of her latest single "What Went Wrong" to the Vancouver Downtown Eastside Women's Centre.
The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre provides practical support to over 500 women, children and seniors every day, as well as offering a refuge and shelter from conditions of poverty and violence. The Centre provides basic necessities like hot meals, free clothing, secure mailing addresses, phone and computer access, functioning and secure toilets and showers. They also help reduce the effect of economic disadvantage by providing toiletries, feminine hygiene products, computer access, harm reduction supplies and first aid.
"The Centre assists women with their immediate and crisis needs so they can develop stability and access the resources they need to improve health, family, employment and housing situations. They promote positive change by offering individual long-term support, education, advocacy, peer mentorship and exposure to alternatives. I'm proud to donate all Bandcamp sales on Friday Sept. 4, purchases that will go towards helping women in need." - Monica Lee
The third album from Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist, Georgia Anne Muldrow’s solo-jazz project, Jyoti, ‘Mama, You Can Bet!’ is now available via eOne and SomeOthaShip. Listen to the Afropunk Soundcheck interview.
The Avett Brothers will release ‘The Third Gleam’ on vinyl September 18.
Buy the vinyl here ->
Singer, songwriter and musician, Ruston Kelly’s new album, ‘Shape & Destroy’ is out on Rounder Records.
“Making this record definitely taught me that I don’t want to be selfish: I want to channel something larger than myself and give myself to the process as fully as possible, because these songs also become the story of whoever hears them. Whatever someone might get out of listening to this record and hearing me express myself in this way, it’s completely theirs.”
Buy the vinyl here ->
Close Talker have released the deluxe version of ‘How Do We Stay Here?’ . Its available on Slow Weather, and features five new songs including new single “Counterpart.”
“Counterpart” stems from “the loss of a relationship a friend of ours experienced a few years ago and the low feelings that followed,” the band says. “It’s about struggling to come to terms with those feelings, knowing you’ll be living in them for a while. Although a lot of our songs have some somber undertones, this one really doesn’t beat around the bush and is probably the saddest song we’ve written.”
Elvis Costello will release his latest album, ‘Hey Clockface’ on October 30.
“They’re draping stones with colours and a roll of stolen names except those we never cared about and those we need to blame”
