I’m co-promoting a show on Canada’s Day with my friend Teagan from Little Coyote. Come to the Horseshoe, it will be a blast!
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Field Trip This Weekend
Heading to Field Trip this today. See you there!
Sunday is up in the air for me as it might be thunderstorming so we’ll see about that tomorrow.
PWRBTTM and Call-Out Culture
This week rising queer-band PWR BTTM were outed as sexual abusers. I knew a lot of people who loved this band. Who would dazzle themselves in glitter and enjoy the so-called safe space of their shows.
It must be heartbreaking to find out that they’re not the people they thought they were. I watched this unfold from the sidelines as someone who is impartial since I never actually got around to listening to their music. Not a thing to brag about, just coincidence. But I do care about those that were emotionally affected.
It’s great that people are being informed about predators. However, I’ve seen too many people post on other people’s walls or try to message people in a vein of “LOOK WHAT YOUR FAV BAND DID”. If that’s you, please reconsider this. This news is everywhere, so the person would find out regardless, but it’s up to them to personally decide if they want to continue supporting the band, or if they will painfully let go of music they thought were from their allies. If they choose to remain silent until they can process it all, it’s their choice.
What exactly do you achieve for being the asshole who needs to personally ruin someone’s day?
Getting into Trebble
I recently was asked to test out Trebble.fm, a service that provides interactive radio to bloggers. At the moment, it is embeded on the bottom of Ride the Tempo and you can also stream it on the standalone player here.
I miss the days when ex.fm (now dead), provided automatic streaming to the tracks we posted on the blog, but Trebble seems like a strong contender in this department. All the tracks are added manually, but with a Chrome Plugin compatible with most music services, it is easy.
It’s still in beta, so there are some bugs but try it out and give a listen to some tunes I’ve personally curated.
Photos: METZ, Dilly Dally & More @ The Silver Dollar
I’ll Miss The Silver Dollar
Last night was the last concert for a while at The Silver Dollar. It’ll be closing so that they can build condos in the area. It will re-open because it has a heritage designation, but because of the closures, the people that are involved will probably not be a part of it anymore.
Thank you for all the special memories:
– It was one of my first club venues before I was even old enough to go to it. I’d volunteer for NXNE (when it was still cool).
– I stood in awkward silence beside people who are now my friends.
– I fell in love with a lot of my favourite bands there.
– I held my first blog showcases there
– I shot my first concert photos there.
– I killed my first camera there.
The venue may come back, but it’ll never be the same. #RIPSilverDollar
Partner @ Longboat Hall 4/22/2017
You have to be a very special band for me to shoot/see you 100 times and Partner is one of those bands. The whole gallery has my favourite shots of the week. View it here.
Duchess Says @ Baby G
The cult of Duchess Says is always a fun one to shoot! See the full set over here.
Das mörtal, Beat Market, Zoo Owl, Paupière @ Longboat Hall
Photos from the Ride the Tempo x Longboat Hall showcase are up now on Ride the Tempo!
Later that night I also hit up Les Deuxluxes. You can find the photoset here.
Photos: Zoobombs, MuniZO, KNIFEY, Little Boxer @ The Silver Dollar
Here are a few of my favourite shots from the show! Check out the full set here: http://ridethetempo.com/2017/04/23/zoobombs-munizo-knifey-boxer-silver-dollar-4182017-cmw2017/
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