I’m sitting in Ottawa, enjoying an iced americano with a view of parliament in the background. How Canadian! I played last night at University of Ottawa for a couple thousand kids, and then played an impromptu afterparty at a club downtown afterwards. I was chatting with the promoter last night about how I sort of feel like i’m on chapter 3 of my musical career.  When I first started making music (chapter 1), I was motivated largely by…

It’s fall. Or Autumn? I think I prefer that word. I updated my “feels” playlist. It took me a few hours so give it a like or a heart or a + or whatever Spotify has changed it to this week. I’ve haphazardly added a lot of these songs to my own library over the last couple years so y’all get the highlights :) Their songs that I really enjoy. The artwork I commissioned from Alethia Lunares. I love it. It still holds up, which I think is harder to do than most people think…

New York City pop up happens this Wednesday! Yes! If you live there come through! It’s free. If you don’t live there but have friends who do, send them this. Going to be a sunset party on this insane rooftop we found in Brooklyn. I can’t wait I really love New York City. Sometimes I feel like I want to live there. But then I wonder, would that take away the magic and excitement I get from going to the city? Do I actually just like visiting New York? I’m not really sure. I guess there’s no way to find out other than moving there, but that seems risky to chance it just to check. Especially if I got a good thing going with just visiting. Guess I’ll just…

Sometimes creating things starts with a question —Why do I like this thing that I like? And I’m not saying in a passive way, “oh i like this song because it’s catchy.” But really dig deep… what specifically makes it speak to you? I think this is a great place to start if you’re stuck on creating. And I love a fucking trick to get me started on a day where dragging my ass to the studio is the last thing I want to do. There’s no trick to it, it’s just a simple trick. I’m a massive Simpsons…

I’m on a plane back to Vancouver, and managed to get out of Burning Man Sunday afternoon. It’s a bit wild to see all the mainstream news outlets covering something you were just at. It’s a rare vantage point to see something sensationalized but have full insider info of the event yourself. So it’s a bit of a long post this week but here’s how my trip went down…

The dates are coming in. I just added Denver. Vegas we announce tomorrow. And I’m off to Burning Man this week, playing 6 sets in 3 days! There's lots more dates are in the works. I’m excited.I’m feeling a lot more patient with my DJ’ing lately. It feels like I found the pocket if that makes sense. I think there’s a couple things that helped. During the pandemic I did a weekly twitch stream. I did about 60 weeks in a row or something insane. It turns out if you DJ for 3 hours a week, while also talking on a mic, and typing in a chatroom... you get better at it? Who would have thought? But I guess in retrospect…

I hear it’s lit. 🔥  All puns aside, I’m extremely excited, nervous and a bit terrified. I think that is the appropriate hodgepodge of emotions. I’ve never been to Burning Man before, but this year I’m playing 6 sets. Makes sense for my first time 😂. It feels like a rite of passage for DJ’s, but I know it’s that way for attendees as well. I’ve been educating myself on it for the past few weeks and I have a lot of respect for how these things come about. I know the level of planning and community required to make…

But we’ll get to that in a bit. I’m having a pretty good workflow these days. I feel good and I feel the momentum. I think i’m being a lot more patient with myself and not trying to cram 1000 things into one day. If I just breathe and focus on a couple things for the day, at the end of the week I still feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. Which has honestly been surprising! Focussing on less accomplishes more? Make it make fucking sense! It’s torturous to have an endless to-do list day every day. But…

I’ve had a complicated relationship with release day over the years. At my best it’s been exciting, at my worst it’s been soul-crushing. To say the invention of streaming services has added a new pressure to ‘release day’ would be putting it lightly. We’re all vying for a chance to be seen amongst a smorgasbord of a fuck-ton of music from a myriad of genres. I’ve been putting out music since about 2007 (it’s wild to even say that) and I’ve noticed myself get overwhelmed with it at times. I think i’m better with it now. I’ve deleted all the ‘stats’ apps off my phone and tried to focus on “what do i really care about?” I try to be realistic. I want people…

I’m sitting here listening to Kid A for about the 500th time in my life and I still love it. Like, I really fucking love it. The album somehow still surprises me at times, and other times it feels like it’s from the future. That’s a quality I love in music, when something sounds fresh many years later. I love music because it’s puzzling and infinite. It’s this weird mix of something thats calculate but also spontaneously emotional. I don’t know, it’s hard to put into words, but I love it for so many reasons. I guess music would be the perfect…

It’s a pop up summer baby! On Friday Kyle and I hit the road for Victoria, dreading the concept of being in a BC Ferry line all day but coming out victoriaous (see what I did there?) as we boarded the 11am with no wait time. We picked up generators on the way into town, stopped for coffee, and started driving up the coast line scoping out spots for this pop up. I can’t stress how much of a “pop up” these truly are since by 2PM we still weren’t sure where…

What are the ripple effects of the pandemic in my world as a creative? I think the boom of Zoom culture is one of the them. I can say with utmost confidence (and zero research) that there has definitely been a spike of Zoom meetings to exactly 10,000%. I think we all feel it. It feels eerily similar to how me and my peers feel about social media. Is it a necessary evil? Something we all take part in, even though we…

At 7:30 a few people started trickling in. By 8:30 it was a few hundred. Once the sunset peaked I started to lose count, it had become a sea of people, and it was incredible. Everyone was in such a positive mood, the vibe was immaculate, the weather was perfect, it was all unreal. Once night hit, we reached peak energy levels and a proper beach rave was in full force. Then the cops showed up…

The album is out. Thank you to everyone who has listened and shared it. Especially if you've listened to it front to back, no interruptions. (My favourite way to consume music*.) I’m quite happy with how cohesive the record is as a whole. I won’t say too much about it, because I do find it a bit laborious to talk about music. As the maxim says, “talking about music, is like dancing about architecture.” I find that to be very true. Sometimes I’m asked to write a quote about my latest song and my visceral reaction is to think…

I’m off to LA to write some music this week. I’ll be there when my sunset album comes out this Friday. I’m also playing a show with my other project Glass Petals at Sound Nightclub on Thursday. It’s the first night for Walker & Royce’s monthly label residency there! We have been working on some music together too. I love when things all line up and the schedule packs out. Going to write new music in LA feels like a…