Thinking about Dying and Learning How to Live: An Interview With Still Depths On Best plan for your life 

Thinking about Dying and Learning How to Live: An Interview With Still Depths On Best plan for your life 

I am back at a DIY venue and still getting used to it. It’s the first one I’ve been to since I was seventeen, and since then, new bands have emerged to play shows with ones I already know. Events shared via Instagram posters instead of Facebook pages have brought in a new crowd eager for live music. New venues like this one (Green Auto Body) have popped up, and old ones have been renamed. I am now much older than when I first experienced them, but in a way it’s nice to feel like I’m revisiting an old version of myself through the power of cheap PBR and second-hand smoke.

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An exercise in revealing & withdrawing at Amanda Sum’s New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

An exercise in revealing & withdrawing at Amanda Sum’s New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert

Minutes before her solo performance, theatre artist, songwriter, and musician Amanda Sum sat in the lobby of the Cultch’s Historic Theatre as the crowd poured in. There, she individually handed out an envelope containing a pop-up book, a pen, and a piece of white rabbit candy to each person in attendance.

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Hoodie Browns and Lovely Company at 648 Kingsway

Hoodie Browns and Lovely Company at 648 Kingsway

Let me describe to you the difference between a song and a sigh, between a recording and a live show. The act of being together in time, through the measure of music. Let me describe to you a community coming together at the end of last month for a shared purpose: to experience music at 648 Kingsway with Hoodie Browns, Lalune, and Lovely Company. 

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Arcana: The Making of a Pop Reflection

Arcana: The Making of a Pop Reflection

Back in October, I was asked to cover the album release of Dust Cwaine, local singer-songwriter and drag queen, for their sophomore album, Arcana. The album, like Dust, was immersed in pop colour, featuring an arrangement of talent from artists such as producer Please Be Nice and rapper Tea Fannie. 

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Universal Love 2 - A Harley Alexander Experience

Universal Love 2 - A Harley Alexander Experience

There's something quite addicting about honesty. Some sort of unadulterated and absolute truth revealed through conversation, or music that feels like welcomed rain washing over you; an experience void of verbosity, a refreshing disruption in this manufactured world. Unto you, with honesty and tenderness, Harley Alexander wholeheartedly returns with his first project in two years to connect with love, above all else. He provides a remarkably honest expression of raw emotions through uniquely contrasting tracks on his album, Universal Love 2.

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