Why This Rules

Claire Maeve started off in DIY, genre-defying bands in Guelph as an in-demand side player, secretly developing the songcraft of a wise master and evolving into a band leader in Toronto. Her [...]

In the summer of 2013, I went to Call the Office in Deshkan Ziibiing (London, ON) to see a band I had found through a LiveJournal music share community when I was in high school. I don’t remember [...]

My latest craze (these daze) is looking up the dictionary definition of words I think I know. The kind of words I abuse, misuse or continue to use (for fear of disuse) as a way of finding out if [...]

In terms of overall feel, the ground Westelaken is treading is a sort of weird country terrain that is hard to map in detail, so I’ll try to keep it vague: the Westelaken vibe is, in my opinion, [...]