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Tom Beedham

Swimming - That's OK

Swimming - That's OK

All heart-on-sleeve verses, chiming chords, mathy finger tapped guitar breakdowns and lead swapping vocals, St. John's Swimming signal precious nostalgia for the mid-2000s emo boom but avoid the pitfalls of the genre's gendered myopia and toxicity by anchoring its personal loss and defeat to geopoli

Yes in My Backyard: Guelph

Yes in My Backyard: Guelph

From techno to outlaw country and even raga raga psych and bossa nova-infused jazz, here are 10 artists doing exciting things in Guelph.

How Music Streaming's Option Anxiety Birthed Another Single-Serving Economy

How Music Streaming's Option Anxiety Birthed Another Single-Serving Economy

The advent of music streaming freed musicians from the limitations of physical media, allowing them to express themselves through seamless, virtually endless means, but play-determined royalty systems created an economic environment that rendered that mode of production increasingly precarious.

Kae Sun - Midnight and Other Endings EP

Kae Sun - Midnight and Other Endings EP

"Maneuvering the timeless, formless, ever-reaching future of the hive mind, for Kae Sun, it's impossible to be sure where whatever's next starts and where it ends, but it's here, it’s now, and it still has things to show you."

LAL - Meteors Could Come Down

LAL - Meteors Could Come Down

On their seventh album two decades into the game, Toronto electronic searchers LAL’s pandemic record looks inward to radiate Do-It-Together utopianism.

Our Favourite Songs of 2020

Our Favourite Songs of 2020

This is the music that soothed us during countless moments of anxiety, channelled our anger, and pumped us up when we needed to push back.

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore

Why I'm Not Writing About DIY Anymore

What opportunities are we missing out on by approaching the informal creative environment we call the underground in centralist, individualist terms. Can we really keep talking about DIY and independent music if we truly wish to further the goals that initially attracted us to it?