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  Sorry Girls Bounce Back Unapologetically with "Ricochet"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2025

  I really like the song "The Exiles" by Sorry Girls — the Montreal-based dream pop duo of Heather Foster Kirkpatrick and Dylan Konrad Obront...

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  Lucette Reintroduces Herself as a 'Nice Girl from the Suburbs'

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  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025

  If this is your first time coming across her name, let it be known that Edmonton's Lucette and her career have led many lives over the...

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  Japanese Breakfast's 'For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)' Sees Swooning Beauty in the Sorrow

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  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025

  The title is objectively cringe, and the two pre-release singles breezed past without making much of an impression — so I'm as surprised as...

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  Eliza Niemi Finds the Magic in Mundanity on 'Progress Bakery'

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  PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025

  "Quirky" has developed a bit of a negative connotation lately. Or maybe it's always had one? Either way, I feel bad that it seems the...

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  Superheaven Reach a New Peak on "Stare at the Void"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2025

  Admittedly, I hadn't heard of Superheaven until their viral "Youngest Daughter" moment following the 10th anniversary of that song's mother...

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  Wares' Cassia Hardy Makes Edmonton Sound Just Like Heaven on "Empress"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2025

  Wares leader Cassia Hardy has released a solo single paying tribute to the Empress Ale House, an Edmonton pub and venue that shut down back...

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  jasmine.4.t and Phoebe Bridgers Offer an Effortless Exercise in Contrasts on "Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation"

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  PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2025

  Phoebe Bridgers announced plans to "take a massive step back" in 2024, and she's been true to her word — but she unassumingly emerged from...

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  Jonathan Personne Charts a Majestic Power Pop Course on 'Nouveau Monde'

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  PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2025

  'Nouveau Monde' mixes together unreleased songs from different eras of Jonathan Personne's writing, and a press release even goes so far as...