Slash Need Double Dog Dare You…
The Toronto industrial provocateurs collapse the distance between performer, pest and possessed crowd.
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URL/IRL: The Hybrid Initiatives That Are Transcending Barriers Across Canada
five cross-Canada URL/IRL initiatives that have built upon the tools that COVID-19 left us with and are creating bridges and filling gaps by focusing on transcending barriers to foster community
Always Dreaming: On Diamond Jubilee and Hauntology
Cindy Lee’s compositions are fiddly little slices of heaven. She writes pop songs about memory and loss, sung in a delicate falsetto, backed by sweet harmonies.
Are You Listening? The Power of Paying Attention Explored Through Audio Archiving
Tia Julien sets out to explore the role music and sound play in the collective experience and eventual memory of this historical moment, in the midst of scarcity, civil unrest, and movement towards revolution.
Intergenerational Resistance
A look at the community effort behind folk/country artist Saltwater Hank’s new record G̱al’üünx wil lu Holtga Liimi
Deep Digs: Blaxäm - Kiss My Afro (1998)
In this installment of Deep Digs, Daniel G. Wilson revisits Toronto funk rock band Blaxäm's debut EP “Kiss My Afro” and examines the history of Black-fronted rock bands in Toronto during the 90s.
Yang Chen Is Cultivating Happiness
Over the wretched winter of 2020/2021, a pandemic period marked by lockdowns and loneliness, Toronto-based percussionist Yang Chen longed for community. In December 2020, Chen conceived of a collaborative project that would allow them to reconnect with the friends they so dearly missed.