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In a 2017 interview with gal-dem, aja monet said, "I don't share things for you to understand or feel me, I'm sharing something so that we c...

It's the beginning of the end of Kazoo! Fest, and shn shn is seated cross-legged on the floor of the stage at Royal City Mission, an assortm...

Late capitalism permeates all: work days stretching into unnecessary commutes; the market invading private moments and commodifying attentio...

Touring was off the table for much of 2021, but releasing albums certainly wasn't. Throughout the year, Canadian artists cranked out outstan...

Very soon, many of us are going to start looking back to the start of the year as we evaluate the year's best music, but there's no need to...

If the winter blues haven't set in yet, they surely will by the time November is over. As we all dig into our trove of self-soothing tools,...

Over the past two decades, Liz Harris has embarked on a series of northward moves up the Pacific — Los Angeles, Portland and then further no...

Cycles and decay are everywhere in ambient music. As characteristic properties, they effectively speak to the minimalist, generative nature...

Published May 26, 2021 7 Following the breakthrough success of her sophomore classic Ingénue and her subsequent coming out, k.d. lang occupied a curious corner of musics psyche throughout the 90s and leading into the new millennium. lang was a regular nominee at the Grammys and a Vanity Fair cover had her posing for a shave at the hands of Cindy Crawford, but radio didnt know what to do with her. Too queer for country, too country for pop, langs musical expression was obscured in plain view, b...

Vallens Continue Their Lynchian Worship on In Era Published Mar 15, 2021 8 A crisis of identity has arguably haunted Vallens from their early days, so it makes sense theyd mostly step back from the guitars on this sophomore effort. Robyn Phillips was already reluctant and cautious in validating media evaluations that had the band pinned as a shoegaze act in press ahead of releasing debut album Consent in 2016, and half a year later they were showing off a hungrier, more corrosive version of t...