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  ANOHNI Absorbs the Grief of a Planet in Crisis: "We're Porous Creatures"

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2024

  "This life, this tour that I'm doing, is radically unsustainable," ANOHNI tells me over Zoom from her hotel in Toronto, where she's just...

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  Maritime MCs Rap for a Better Future: "It's Really Special to See East Coast Hip-Hop Move Like This"

  PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2024

  Even as Gilbert Sewell lay on his deathbed, he still found ways to inspire his grandson, Tristan Grant. Grant, who raps under the alias Wolf...

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  Spooky Streaming Must-Sees (and Must-Skips) in October 2024

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  It's spooooooky season! Bust out all the cute pumpkin and ghost decor, it's time to sink into witches, spirits and killers — oh my! For...

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  Rich Aucoin Hangs Up the Parachute: "We've All Been Jumping Around — We Deserve a Sit"

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  Rich Aucoin is packing up his parachute for the last time. After more than 15 years, his current New Nostalgia: Penultimate Tour marks the...

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  Hot-Take Reactions to Charli XCX's 'BRAT' Remix Album: Caroline Polachek Is Romantic, but the 1975 Are a Knife

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2024

  The modern album rollout can feel like a clinical exercise in algorithmic optimization: artists waterfall four or five singles until the...

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  This Funny Week in Funny Tweets: October 11, 2024

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2024

  Exactly how to watch Twin Peaks, "Leon" leaps as Donald speaks, hurricanes set off GOP freaks, the Lonely Island's glory hole tweaks...

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  Welcome to the T-Shirt Business: Canadian Musicians Show Off Their Favourite Band Merch

  PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2024

  The music industry has sometimes been facetiously referred to as "the T-shirt business" — a funny and self-deprecating reminder that...

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  8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in October 2024

  PUBLISHED Oct 9, 2024

  'BRAT' Summer is over! 'BRAT' Fall is in full swing! Or maybe neither ever truly existed, maybe nothing ever truly existed! The encroaching...