Caroline Anne – On September 1, 2020, #WeMakeEvents North America, a group formed of industry professionals, trades professionals, businesses, unions, nonprofits and freelance artists, lit up their venues, homes, and cities in red in over 2,000 locations across North America.
Tune In at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 22 to any of these channels for live streaming performances by Shaina Shepherd, Blazinspace, Noel Brass Jr. and Patrick Galactic.
Camille Nibungco – Mindie (Major Indie) rock forefathers and pioneers, the Strokes, treated early Y2K indieheads with an early Monday night performance at the WaMu Theatre at the start of March, just before live music went on indefinite hiatus.
Nicholas Anderson – There’s a moment about thirty seconds into the first track, “No Celestial Hope,” on Dryland’s new EP Dances With Waves, where vocalist Bradley Lockhart howls the song’s title. If it’s not a concise thesis statement for the work that follows, as well as a succinctly accurate representation of our current predicament, I don’t know what is.
Graham Isaac – It was arguably the last weekend one could go out with minimal guilt. It was the last weekend that felt even close to what passed for normal in a year that’d already seen threats of a Third World War and an entire continent on fire. Folks were washing their hands more frequently but businesses were still open and people were still going out and doing things.
