I haven’t even stepped foot into the Snotty Nose Rez Kids show, and I already notice a couple things outside the venue. Clearly, the Indigenous fashion is on-point, with beaded earrings and...
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Vee Hua 華婷婷Waiting Game, the latest full-length album from Junior Boys, is the Ontario duo of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus’ first album in six years. Billed as contemplative, the nine-track record certainly sets the tone for such sentiments from its...
Miles GinozaIt was an emotional return to concerts after over a year of uncertainty surrounding the future of live music. Luna Li and Japanese Breakfast’s second sold out show on Friday, October 1st in San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom seemed to...
Allen HuangI was a huge fan of Cadence Weapon’s first two records. Hanging out on Pitchfork-adjacent web forums in my teens, I quickly learned about the inequalities inherent to the music blog meatgrinder that ran the early 2000’s all too well...
Swathed in the unlikely comfort of warm grey tones, Toronto-based musician Hiroki Tanaka (田中博基) can be seen on the album cover for his debut solo record, Kaigo Kioku Kyoku (介護記憶曲), looking fairly somber in a space accented by Japanese relics and the...
Ian KingThough such a struggle may have only existed in some people’s minds, if there was one between digital and analog music recording and creation, there’s no question that digital came out on top without ever even having to dig a trench...
An imposing wall of rotary dials, turreted by oscilloscopes, draped in spaghettied cables, emitting a series of creaks, groans, and unearthly bubbles, is one of the most iconic images of electronic music. These monolithic machines -- known as...