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Lockdown after lockdown, the Internet continued to remind us that the plague brought Europe out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. Whether or not that turned out to be an applicable adage nearly 700 years later, it made sense that the imposed isolation and unprecedentedly clear Google Cals would have some creative payoff. […]
Toronto rappers Exmiranda, Dijah SB, and Keysha Freshh have teamed up on a new performance video for an exhibition on women in hip hop. The exhibit, “Women in Hip Hop,” showcases female MCs across time within the male-dominated genre. It is part of Toronto’s annual Myseum Intersections Festival and features interactive galleries with performances, videos, and mixed-media that spotlights […]
They’re by no means an online instigator, but sparring on Twitter is second nature to DijahSB. Even with a limited character count, the Toronto rapper is never without an arsenal of sharp retorts, navigating through beefs with impressive buoyancy. Considering their profession, quick wit is a particularly useful skill. But their mastery comes in their […]
Drake and The Weeknd may be the two biggest artists Canada’s ever birthed, but to find success they had to leave the country. There’s a reason for that: Making it as a Black artist within our borders can feel like a Sisyphean task, thanks to systemic barriers that have remained in place for decades. For […]
It’s been a long fight. The music industry has been upended, and our lives along with it. But in the most challenging of years, some voices still managed to stand out, either lifting us out of the darkness or resonating with us during a time of unrest. Good music really hit different in 2020. And in Canada, […]
The Grammy nominations came out this week and though there is some very impressive Canadian representation in the big categories of the night, there was one glaring absence: despite releasing what some have called his best work to date, The Weeknd did not receive any nominations for his ’80s-influenced opus, After Hours. Since then, both The […]
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