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 Split Seconds are a pop-punk band from Washington DC. Known for minimalist garage band style, they’ve taken the stage at DC9, The Treehouse Lounge, and The Wonderland Ballroom, among others venues. (You can watch the video of their song “Cutting Out” from their soon-to-be-released debut album, here.) Recently the band got together to answer… Read more »
Skunkmello is a Brooklyn-based rock band That’s been thrilling audiences for the last few years with their own lively blend of blues and rock and a unique narrative style of lyric-writing. They’ve just released the track “Highway 17” from their album Hot Chicken, which is due for release the 10th of June. A hectic touring… Read more »
In a world That’s being so rapidly transformed by digital technology that you scarcely dare blink for fear of missing some colossal new breakthrough, It’s easy to forget that whatever patch of earth we’re standing on is millions of years old, or that being aware of the history of the human beings who occupied it… Read more »
British Columbia-based J.D. Miner is one of my long-time favourite folk acts. I first encountered their music in 2008 on their album Ain’t No Ordinary Hillbilly, and went on to interview them (see here). I featured them again in 2011 regarding their album Coal Train. Well, the time has rolled around again for another great… Read more »
Fable Cry bills itself as a “theatrical scamp rock quintet,” but that doesn’t say the half of it. With a weirdly spooky aesthetic and a devotion to all things bizarre, bandmembers share a deeply rooted fascination with the things of the imagination and express it superlatively on stage and in the studio with a gypsy-punk-cabaret… Read more »
