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Ice Cream

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2016

Where others see limitations, Ice Cream see opportunity. Listening to the duo laugh about the time they forgot one of their synthesizers be...

Pipe Street Studio

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Of all the recording facilities hiding in residential houses in Guelph, Ontario, none is as much of a home as Pipe Street Studio. Fostered...

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Danny Michel Aboard the Khlebnikov

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2016

Danny Michel has a history of approaching music with a sense of exploration — his 2012 album Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me was recorded i...

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Harrison

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2016

Three years ago, emerging producer Harrison was walking with a friend when the pair discovered an abandoned backpack near an underpass. Ins...

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Northern Studio

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2016

Call it a Montreal Assault — the technical deathcore that Despised Icon have been blasting from their hometown since 2002. The band — and t...

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Kate Maki and Frederick Squire

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2016

For five years, songwriters Kate Maki and Frederick Squire (Shotgun & Jaybird, Daniel, Fred & Julie) have been living in Greater Sudbury's...

Holy Fuck

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PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016

Brian Borcherdt's basement studio in the west end of Toronto is just a ten-minute walk away from Graham Walsh's similar recording setup. Bu...

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LAL

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

For Toronto's LAL, the phrase "find safety" serves as both album title and mantra. It's also the name of the duo's fourth full-length studi...