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.
Album: Currency of Man Artist: Melody Gardot “?Cause I believe in a world where we all belong, And I’m so tired o? seein? every good man gone.” – Melodie Gardot, “Preacher Man” The above quote is from a song that memorialises the brutal racist killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955. This is… Read more »
No Dry County is a Texan indie band with a sound that combines rootsy Americana, folk, and classic rock, brilliantly displayed in close harmonies and a lively stage presence. Their first full-length album, The Night Before, was just released this March. Recently the band’s vocalist Trent Langford took the time to talk to Wanda Waterman… Read more »
No Dry County is a Texan indie band revelling in rootsy Americana, folk, and classic rock, expressed beautifully in tight harmonies and with a passionate stage presence. Their first full-length album, The Night Before, was just released this March. Recently the band’s vocalist, Trent Langford, took the time to talk to Wanda Waterman about the… Read more »
Film: Banksy Does New York Director: Chris Moukarbel “There are crimes that become innocent and even glorious through their splendour, number and excess.” “When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.” ? Banksy He didn’t apply for an arts grant. He didn’t… Read more »
Film: Leviathan Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev, Writers: by Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin “In this work at all times, the human spirit is shown as modified by its relation to force, as swept away, blinded, by the very force it imagined it could handle, as deformed by the weight of the force it submits to.” – Simone… Read more »
Moondog Matinee is a Reno-based band known for creating boisterous, rootsy rock. (Watch their joyous performance of “Wild Way” here and listen to “Ghost Dime” here.) Moondog Matinee were selected as a Red Bull Sound Select artist and voted Best Band in Northern Nevada by the Reno News and Review. This summer they’ll be promoting… Read more »
Album: Spin Cycle Artist: Afiara Quartet “I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return?d to me, And answer?d: ?I Myself am Heav?n and Hell.“ – Omar Khayyam The process was singular: The Afiara Quartet sent commissions to four of Canada’s best composers:… Read more »
