Posts Tagged ‘indie’
I’ll say it – I’m not the biggest fan of hip-hop. Never have been, never will be. Apart from a few select records, like the Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z and Eminem, I’m just not a fan. It’s not that it’s awful music, it just doesn’t click with me. Regardless, you heard it here first – Man Mantis might just change my ideas about hip-hop for a while.
I never knew that there were places (homes, institutions or whatever you want to call them) for people who were deaf. Daniel Marando from the diabolically bluesy Maladies sits across from me, staring out the window. Something seems to catch his eye as he turns and waves to an older lady sitting across the room, intently watching the Bold and the Beautiful with closed captions blaring.
“HI MARGARET, HOW ARE YOU?”
We hit The Tote (a Collingwood pub and band venue) on a balmy Saturday night and were greeted with the wandering crescendos of Three Month Sunset (a.k.a. Gabriel Lewis). In a shameless display of free-flowing post-rock, Lewis caressed his guitar and peered out meditatively to the largely empty bandroom. A little overwhelmed by the grandiose and sheer volume of the set, we joined a small crowd of smokers and beer-guzzlers in the chilled out beer garden where the pensive emanations seemed to settle more fittingly.
