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The OVO duo dropped their new album this week.

The OVO duo dropped their new album this week.

The OVO duo dropped their new album this week.

Given her artistic output in 2020, it may seem strange that Sinzere saw it as a relatively quiet year of pause and reflection.

oodboy noah shares,  “‘Dial Tone’ is about being hung up on the one that got away. The inspiration for the song came when I DM’d Beyonce and she didn’t even open it. It was a hard pill to swallow, but after two months in a deep depression, I got up and wrote this song, so you could say it was worth it.” goodboy noah is a Toronto native, now based in LA, who is most known for his 2018 collaborative EP Everything, All at Once with Toronto-based producer  Shagabond, w...

Dec 15, 2020 Image via Unsplash It’s been a big, weird year for Canadian music. The likes of The Weeknd, Drake, and dvsn all dropped heat in 2020 to help get us through lockdown, while rising artists have been forced to pivot to online streaming formats in order to survive. So, where do we go from here? As we enter 2021 amid a global pandemic, which artists, trends, and genres will pop off in the north? To find out, we asked a crack team of Canadians plugged into the music industry: Alicia We...

Illustration via Kagan McLeod Its been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, there was plenty of it, from superstars like Drake and The Weeknd to upstarts like Backxwash and Chiiild. Years from now, these songs might trigger memories o...