By Will McGuirk
Radio Zeitgeist spotlights the best of the week’s vinyl releases scheduled for a drop on Friday. This week we spotlight tracks by the RTs, Palette Knife, Nation of Language, Slow Down Molasses, and JW Francis plus a whole lot more. Dig in. It is available on the Spotify platform. Subscribe, Follow, Like, whatever it is they do do it there. We have been doing the RZ roundup for a while so there’s an archive too.
Wet Leg
By Will McGuirk
Radio Zeitgeist spotlights the best of this week’s vinyl releases. This week we spotlight tracks by Wet Leg, the Beaches, Grouplove, Inspiral Carpets, Lissie, plus a whole lot more. Dig in. It is available on the Spotify platform. Subscribe, Follow, Like, whatever it is they do do it there. We have been doing the RZ roundup for a while so there’s an archive too.
Robyn Ottolini
By Will McGuirk
I”t feels like vulnerability and bravery in confessing an old love but it really is more of seeking comfort in the familiar and begging those around you to create that for you.” - Katie Tupper
“Hot Tea is a deep longing to be touched by life.” - Josh Taylor, half•alive
Award-winning musicians from across the Durham Region are gathering on Sunday, December 12th to help feed their neighbours in need, and the need has never been greater. Presented by the Rotary Clubs of Durham, the fourth annual Concert to Feed the Need in Durham features a wide range of genres, all in support of the agency Feed the Need in Durham, which collects and distributes food to over 60 emergency food providers across the Region, including food banks, shelters, meal and snack programs and other social service agencies.
Performers include Nicole Sinclair-Anderson of the Toronto Mass Choir; Artemis & Pierre Chartier with Dale Russell of the Guess Who; The Autumn Smoke; Kris Barclay; Cale Crowe; Leah Daniels; Tania Joy; Alicia Robicheau; Hunter Sheridan; Kalista Wilson, and Resound Choir
* Non-perishable food donations accepted
For more details see here ->
Jadea Kelly
By Will McGuirk
"Escaping" is a song about the secrets that you keep inside. Forget the past and leap forward. Don't look back, it's not worth your time.” - Favours
“This idea of coming home to yourself after losing yourself in a world of disillusionment. The point when you realize everything you need is already within yourself. Letting go of all that isn't you, to rediscover who you are.” - Ellyn Woods, Baile
“This song marks a deep dive into my changing thoughts about nostalgia, seeing it change from cozy romanticism to toxic waste." - Scott Hardware
Live Slow Die Wise - Geoffroy
By Will McGuirk
Radio Zeitgeist spotlights the best of this week’s vinyl releases. This week we spotlight tracks by Auf Togo, Dry Ice, Fur, Gabriels, Joanna Sternberg, Lionlimb, and Scott Lavene, plus a whole lot more. Dig in. It is available on the Spotify platform. Subscribe, Follow, Like, whatever it is they do do it there. We have been doing the RZ roundup for a while so there’s an archive too.
Ombiigizi, photo by Rima Sater
By Will McGuirk
"These ideas around perceived value got me thinking about the Stock Exchange. Seeing parallels between the way it flows - the constant rising and falling – all dictated by the general public’s perception of an entity’s value, and ultimately how that influences the moves that we make as individuals." - Haviah Mighty
“Whether it be anxiety or depression, anger or addiction, there are parts of ourselves that can lead us down a path that is detrimental to our being. This song is about acknowledging that part of oneself and overcoming it.” - Avi Kaplan
By Will McGuirk
Jadea Kelly is always a fave ‘round here so happy to hear a new track from the Whitby singer/songwriter, who has been based in L.A. Yah the good ones always leave, but the distance is felt and her latest single, ‘Driveway’ is about that feeling, that longing for friends, family, familiarity. Its a longing once felt by folks continents apart but such were the guidelines for the Covid, it is one now shared between folks who were sometimes only a driveway apart.
“Driveway was written during one of my first trips to LA and sat on a hard drive for years amidst my touring schedule. When the pandemic rolled around, and I was physically unable to see my family in Canada, the song returned with a deeper meaning. Like many, I longed for the simplicity of home, a quiet street, the seasons and the ones I love. More than ever,” says Kelly
So yes a song which was written some time back takes on a deeper resonance and with a voice that resonates like only Jadea Kelly’s can.
Photos by Tom Pandi
By Will McGuirk
“‘Headrush’ is about wanting to go back to a moment and be completely present. Back to that summer day I didn’t realize was heaven until it had passed, only grasping its potency in retrospect.” - Georgia Harmer
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
By Will McGuirk
“It’s putting off the break up because even though you know it’s the right call, it sucks to do. I’ve been on the other side of that situation too and it’s not fun either way. But heartbreak happens to everybody and you can’t control it, you just have to feel it and know that eventually it will pass. Because it will.” - Cassidy Mann
“I want it to be something that they can put on and feel like they have a friend telling them stories, letting them know they are not alone, sharing my life with them and personally singing songs to them.” - Tennyson King
BUSM
By Will McGuirk
The Shwakats and D-Rawkers are out and aboot with new tracks. As they say you can leave but you can never check-out or check-out and never leave? I can never remember anyway we know where you are at, we know what you are doing, and we like it . . . dig in, also that BUSM freak funk is fun. Fact.
