Not a Straight Line: Navigating ADHD, Addiction Recovery, and the Music Industry
An anonymous musician shares their story on navigating ADHD, addiction recovery, and the music industry.
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Aural Adventures With Castle If
Electronic Composer and Producer Jess Forrest on Creative Habits and her Imaginary Soundtrack Series
Protest Chants as a Collective Musical Habit
Spencer Bridgman traces the history of how chants became a vital part of protest culture. In speaking with union organizers, feminist advocates, and migrant-rights workers, he shines a spotlight on raising our collective voice to bring about change.
Connective Tissue: How Punk Archivists in Calgary Preserve the Fabric of Music From the Past
Every day, we take care to maintain our bodies, lives, and relationships. Ben Lines extends this same effort to preserving music. When he’s not studying or working part-time, the 21-year-old Calgary resident is running CanadianWasteland.
Would You Congratulate Me if I Got a Job at Spotify?
Together, we can resist precarity. In the same way that sharing pay rates with one another increases our collective ability to bargain for fairer compensation, finding commonality through the exploitative nature of our work helps build empathy and collective power.
Toronto Hardcore Legends Fucked Up Build on Their Galvanizing Sound 'One Day' at a Time
Toronto hardcore legends Fucked Up have always been a thoughtful group. So when it came to writing and recording their sixth full-length album in the middle of a time of lockdowns and uncertainty, they found that trying something a bit different could be just the right creative catalyst.
Hipgnosis, Song Acquisition, and the Elephant in the Room
On January 24, Justin Bieber joined a sea of music legends surrendering their copyrights, unloading his entire music catalogue to U.K. investment manager Hipgnosis Song Management for a cool $200 million USD.
Bieber’s catalogue, Hipgnosis’s biggest acquisition to date, is the latest blockbuster deal in an IP