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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 has been… a year. And while there’s certainly been no shortage of reasons to celebrate its impending end, we’re spending the final weeks of 2020 commemorating the bright spots in what’s been an otherwise flaming garbage dump of a year, celebrating the songs, albums and work that helped make the year a little more […]
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, […]
Junia-T’s solo salvo Studio Monk was a record that almost never came to fruition. Mired in a creative funk in the wake of the release of his 2014 album Eye See You, the Toronto via Mississauga MC was on the brink of quitting music for good. However, linking with Toronto music maven Addy Papa’s Riot […]
Winter months always seem to go by a bit more slowly, for obvious reasons, but this particular January has been one for the ages. It’s been an eventful, tragic start to the new decade. Always a vehicle to inspire, uplift, and unite, music—both classic and fresh—is an absolute necessary commodity in these times. Here are ten Canadian-made […]
Twenty-twenty is going to be a real one. (And a real scary one geopolitics-wise, but that’s a whole other story.) In addition to (semi-confirmed) new releases from what you might call the Big Three of massively popular Canadian music—Drake, The Weeknd, the Bieber—we’ll also be hearing from a huge range of favourite artists both long-established […]
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