Posts By: Wanda Waterman

Wanda Waterman

Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.

The Mindful Bard – Neil Cowley Trio

Album: Spacebound Apes Artist: Neil Cowley Trio Deluding Ourselves as a Species “We are all spacebound apes. Whatever way you look at it. However much we delude ourselves that as a species we are at the pinnacle of all understanding, in truth we know nothing.” ?from “Lincoln” The 2017 Montreal International Jazz Festival is off… Read more »

In Conversation with Amber Fly

Amber Fly is the Massachusetts-based punk/alt rock band comprised of Kai Daniels Freyleue (guitar, lead vocals), Nathaniel Swanson (lead guitar), Andrew Howard (bass, backup vocals), and Connor Williams (drums). Their sophomore release, the EP Knit Fabrics, is a revitalizing reaction to the horrors currently facing America. Their chaotic songwriting process manages to produce the most… Read more »

In Conversation with Resin

Resin is the pseudonym of Prague-born Niko Antonucci, who fronts an L.A. based musical project making post-rock music you would expect to be entirely instrumental; the smart, avant-garde lyrics are thus a delightful surprise. (Listen to the song “Hoarse” from her EP Fidget, to be released August 25, for which Resin has written and produced… Read more »

All the Music be Happenin’ Now – The Alt Alternative

I first started writing about music on an iMac that sat on an ancient table with chipping royal blue paint. The window above it looked out onto a young birch spinney that hummed with the activity of minute creatures occasionally shocked into silence by the lumbering of larger ones. My black lab, Tsinuk, was always… Read more »

In Conversation with LOVECOMMISSION

In Conversation With LOVECOMMISSION Wanda Waterman LOVECOMMISSION is the pseudonym of New York singer, musician, and composer Pat Scarlett. Hesitant to identify his genre, he describes his music as “avant-pop” because, in his words, he doesn’t know what else to call it, but It’s has also been identified as shoe-gaze and is reminiscent of the… Read more »