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The year is 2042. You wake up, dress your better-looking avatar in its metaverse fit for the day, and head to the virtual boardroom. At work, your mind wanders to date ideas that could rekindle the spark with your robot partner. Maybe you’ll take the hyperloop to L.A. to catch the Raptors-Lakers game; it’s just a half-hour from […]
Toronto’s Mustafa has been crowned the winner of the 2022 Prism Prize for his music video “Ali.” The self-directed video was selected by a panel of over 130 esteemed industry professionals in Canadian music and visual arts. Mustafa took home the $20,000 Grand Prize for Canadian music video of the year, surpassing nine other videos from artists like Haviah […]
Mustafa’s delicate, haunting 2021 debut When Smoke Rises is a meditation on the grief he experienced after losing several friends to gun violence. It’s an emotion that’s unfortunately much too common in underserved communities around Toronto—communities like the singer-songwriter’s own Regent Park, which in many ways—socially, politically, economically—feels isolated from the rest of the city and the country. […]
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. […]
The snow’s gone, our parkas are back in storage and ‘warming up the car’ isn’t a thing anymore. Just by looking around, it’s easy to peg when winter melts into spring, but there are sonic signs too. It’s almost as if there’s a binary between what a winter track and a spring release are. Case in point? […]
After capturing the world’s attention in March with his debut single “Stay Alive,” Toronto’s Mustafa (a.k.a. Mustafa The Poet) is back with a music video for his new track “Air Forces.” Check it out above. Built around samples of a Sudanese tribal chant—a nod to Mustafa’s own roots—the serene, nearly pastoral track sees the 23-year-old Muslim poet and […]
Every month, we round up some of our favorite new music discoveries. Look back at all of our Best New Artists here and keep up with them all on the Best New Artists playlists on Spotify and Apple. With so many people around the world unable to go to work because of the coronavirus, a lot […]
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