reviews

The Menzingers Keep It Pushing on 'Some of It Was True'

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2023

For a band that has written so much about feeling lost and uncertain about the passage of time, the Menzingers are settling nicely into the...

Mary Lattimore Is a Singular Force on the Mesmerizing 'Goodbye, Hotel Arkada'

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PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

I made the mistake of starting my day with Drake's For All the Dogs, so hitting play on Mary Lattimore's Goodbye, Hotel Arkada felt like re...

Men I Trust Kept It Small in Toronto

History, October 5

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

Men I Trust have managed to rack up many millions of streams without the support of a record label or publicity team — but, in case you wer...

The Rural Alberta Advantage Craft a Windswept Travelogue on 'The Rise & the Fall'

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

A travelogue through farmland and tour life shot through a sepia lens, The Rise & the Fall sees the Rural Alberta Advantage present the wel...

'The Exorcist: Believer' Is Possessed by Being a Terrible Movie

Directed by David Gordon Green

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

Near the end of William Friedkin's 1973 groundbreaking masterpiece The Exorcist, based on William Peter Blatty's electrifying book of the s...

Paramore Bring Some Friends on Board for the Invigorating 'Re: This Is Why'

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PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2023

Every Paramore song tends to be its own little existential plane. That's why This Is Why stood out to me as their tightest and most cohesiv...

Highlands Music Festival Stopped Time at Camp Walden

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2023

Cell reception is lost about 10 kilometres before you need to turn off the two-lane highway curtained by thick wilderness — trees changing...

CHAI Welcomed Toronto to the Bright-Pink Future

Horseshoe Tavern, October 4

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2023

"We are CHAIIIIIIIIIII!" — it's a familiar refrain for fans of the Japanese four-piece; a rallying cry, a greeting, an act of actualization...