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  Peach Pit's Popularity Comes at a Price

  PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2022

  Success has come at a cost for Peach Pit. Since forming in 2016, the Vancouver four-piece have gone from indie upstarts to one of the city'...

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  Avril Lavigne Is Still the Voice of a Generation

  PUBLISHED Feb 25, 2022

  It's a pretty precocious move to open your debut single at 17 years old by telling the world that "Life's like this."  Nearly 20 years lat...

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  Mother Mother's Debut Turns 15: "'Touch Up' Is Our Zenith"

  PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2022

  Mother Mother's career arc has been impossible to predict. When they first emerged as a mid-'00s freak folk trio named Mother, it was unima...

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  SASAMI Wants Her Music to Enrage You

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2022

  Sasami Ashworth has had me on the phone for less than a minute before she tells me to get up out of my chair. "Okay, here's a calisthenics...

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  Meet Exclaim!'s Class of 2022: Peeling, Secret Sign, Super Genius, Sham Family

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022

  Toronto's Monarch Tavern is back at full capacity this week, which means that the Class of 2022 show on Saturday, February 26, is going to...

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  Kaia Kater Honours an Overlooked Moment in Black Canadian History with 'The Porter'

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022

  "I can't believe that I was born here, I grew up here, and I had no idea about the Black porters who were so instrumental in the labour mov...

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  Sum 41 and Simple Plan's Blame Canada Tour Is Skipping Canada

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2022

  A few days ago, Simple Plan and Sum 41 shocked pop-punk fans the world over with their first-ever collaboration, when Sum's Deryck Whibley...

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  Is the Metaverse the Future of Live Music?

  PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2022

  The organizers of Quebec City's Le Phoque OFF spent seven months planning the 2022 edition of their festival — only to have their plans go...