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It's been a year since Canada began locking down, but the efforts of artists to create and share their feelings with the world are stronger...
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![8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in March 2021]()
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![Five Ways BAD CHILD Found Salvation in Music and Became One of 2021's Must-Hear Artists]()
FeaturesFive Ways BAD CHILD Found Salvation in Music and Became One of 2021's Must-Hear Artists Published Mar 02, 2021BAD CHILD's music is all about raw, unfiltered honesty. The 23-year-old Canadian songwriter — born Isaiah Steinberg in Kitchener, ON — chann...
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![Serial Joe, Len, soulDecision and Other Early-2000s Canadian Radio Staples Are Making a Comeback on TikTok]()
FeaturesSerial Joe, Len, soulDecision and Other Early-2000s Canadian Radio Staples Are Making a Comeback on TikTok Published Mar 02, 2021As we've seen time and time again, TikTok's sheer volume of content, viral-hit-making formula and its mysterious algorithm make the app the...
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![Know Your Budtender — Conor McColgan at Fire & Flower on Yonge]()
FeaturesKnow Your Budtender — Conor McColgan at Fire & Flower on Yonge Published Feb 26, 2021Fire & Flower is your guide to all things green. In a cannabis market that's filled with scientific breakthroughs and different strains to s...
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![Astral Swans Is a Canadian Cannabis Hero]()
FeaturesAstral Swans Is a Canadian Cannabis Hero Published Feb 26, 2021Calgary's Matthew Swann makes slow, sad folk songs with an eerie experimental edge. He records as Astral Swans, continuing where he left o...
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![Tokyo Police Club Look Back on 'Champ': 'It Was Our Big Swing']()
FeaturesTokyo Police Club Look Back on 'Champ': "It Was Our Big Swing" Published Feb 22, 2021With Champ, Tokyo Police Club were calling their shot. After a hotly buzzed EP in 2006's A Lesson in Crime and a momentum-carrying debut...
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![Danko Jones Remembers When the Raconteurs Covered His Song — and He Missed It]()
FeaturesDanko Jones Remembers When the Raconteurs Covered His Song — and He Missed It Published Feb 18, 2021Danko Jones first began raising a racket in Toronto in the late '90s — around the same time that Jack White and Brendan Benson were launchin...
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![The New World of Canadian Reggae]()
FeaturesThe New World of Canadian Reggae Published Feb 17, 2021While reggae continues to shape many different areas of Canadian music, the country's multicultural landscape is bringing global influence...
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![PUP on Getting Kicked Out of Weezer's Backstage, Their Dubious Ska Origins and Being a 'Fuckin' C-List Rock Band']()
FeaturesPUP on Getting Kicked Out of Weezer's Backstage, Their Dubious Ska Origins and Being a "Fuckin' C-List Rock Band" Published Feb 10, 2021With touring still off the table in early 2021, the first PUP performance of the year saw the beloved outfit shoot a Tiny Desk (Home) Concer...
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![slowthai Asks Himself the Tough Questions]()
Featuresslowthai Asks Himself the Tough Questions Published Feb 09, 2021"If you can't stand to be in your own company, how can someone else? That's always been something I try to live by." In this time of isol...
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![Canadian Artists Model Their Signature Outfits]()
FeaturesCanadian Artists Model Their Signature Outfits Published Feb 08, 2021With social gatherings off the table and a long, cold winter keeping everyone inside, there are far fewer reasons to get dressed up than the...
