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    Formerly NOW’s music editor, Carla continues to write for the music section about the health of Toronto and Canada’s music scenes, DIY communities and issues related to race and gender.

  • Review: Basia Bulat lets loose on Are You In Love?

    Rating: NNNN Sometimes when a collection of songs doesn't come easily, you can hear it in the final result: laboured, overthought, worked-to-death. But Basia Bulat's fifth...
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  • Review: Andy Shauf sets an entire album at Parkdale’s Skyline diner

    Rating: NNNNN Andy Shauf’s new songs are fictional but feel oh so real, especially if you live in Toronto and even more especially if you...
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  • Review: Rae Spoon throws out a lifeline on Mental Health

    Rating: NNN In a recent interview promoting their 10th album, Mental Health, Rae Spoon talked about how the antidote to the overwhelming void a person...
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  • Review: Amyl and the Sniffers’ debut is the perfect mix of pissed-off and laid-back

    Rating: NNNN The pressure on a young band can be crushing when going from lo-fi self-made EPs and 7-inches to a big-indie-label-backed full-length debut with...
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  • The best events at Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2019

    TORONTO COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL at Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge) and other venues, Saturday and Sunday (May 11-12). Mostly free. torontocomics.com. The steady rise in...
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  • Review: Weyes Blood takes a big leap forward on Titanic Rising

    Rating: NNNN Give an indie musician some resources and the results can be staggering. You can’t help but think about that when listening to Weyes...
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  • Review: Toronto’s Jesse Crowe finds strange peace on debut Praises album

    Rating: NNN Toronto’s Jesse Crowe specializes in dark and brooding music delivered with slow and steady intentionality. The nine songs on her first full-length solo...
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  • Review: boygenius were a special kind of magic at Danforth Music Hall

    BOYGENIUS with JULIEN BAKER, PHOEBE BRIDGERS and LUCY DACUS at Danforth Music Hall, Saturday, November 11. Rating: NNNN There’s a special magic to boygenius, to which the group’s huge buzz...
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  • We don’t deserve Buffy Sainte-Marie

    BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE with ANDREA WARNER as part of TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF AUTHORS on October 27 at Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queen's Quay West). 8...
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  • Tanya Tagaq steps out onto an unfamiliar stage

    TANYA TAGAQ in conversation with KENT MONKMAN at Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles), Tuesday (September 25), doors 6 pm. $15. eventbrite.ca. Tanya Tagaq enters the...
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  • Obey Convention is what a festival should be in 2018

    OBEY CONVENTION at various venues in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Thursday, May 24 to Sunday, May 27 You know what’s great and also rare these days?...
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  • Rethinking my rock fandom in the age of #MeToo

    Often I have dreams in which I am super-buds with heavy metal musicians. In these dreams, we’re all standing around backstage after the show, making...
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  • Born Ruffians’ Uncle, Duke & The Chief is calm and confident

    Rating: NNNN For their fifth record, Born Ruffians got some chill. Over the last decade, the Toronto band became known for their frenzied brand of indie...
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  • Toronto musicians to watch in 2018: heavy/loud edition

    LILIM It’s exactly the right moment for a feminist metal band to take the reins of our heavy music scene. The self-described “patriarchy-smashing, ally-creating heavy,...
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  • Rose McGowan’s Brave underlines #MeToos capacity for retraumatization

    You can hear from Rose McGowan pretty easily these days without having to read her book. You can also read lots of hot takes on...
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