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URL/IRL: The Hybrid Initiatives That Are Transcending Barriers Across Canada

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

Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit

Wood, Wire, and Willpower: BIG | BRAVE Patch the Circuit

With their eighth full-length album, the founders of minimalist drone-rock outfit BIG | BRAVE still struggle to break even, and the pair are painfully aware that it could end at any moment.

Ten Years of Halocline Trance

Ten Years of Halocline Trance

Unlike a lot of other labels, Halocline Trance doesn’t really have one defined “sound.” But that’s what makes it especially interesting.

Quietly Brutal: Learning to Listen with Sarah Davachi

Quietly Brutal: Learning to Listen with Sarah Davachi

Experimental composer Sarah Davachi resists the impulse to compete by slowing down and listening.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor at History on Election Night

Godspeed You! Black Emperor at History on Election Night

Godspeed You! Black Emperor weren’t supposed to spend the U.S. presidential election night at Drake’s nightclub in the Beaches, but here we are.

Always Dreaming: On Diamond Jubilee and Hauntology

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.

Revolutionary Rhymes: The Collective Power Behind Rapper Cee Reality’s “Fuck The Colonizers”

Revolutionary Rhymes: The Collective Power Behind Rapper Cee Reality’s “Fuck The Colonizers”

The new album by Cee Reality channels all the rage, frustration and hope that Cee has felt welling up in the last year since Oct. 7 and Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians.