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Perfume Genius's 'Glory' Is a Bright Return to Form

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2025

I'll never forget the first time I encountered the music of Perfume Genius. For some reason, the music video for the singer-songwriter born...

Great Grandpa Are Whatever You Need Them to Be on 'Patience, Moonbeam'

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PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2025

This is the kind of record I wait for every year. Inevitably it arrives, like last year's 'Tiger's Blood,' 2023's 'The Window' or 2022's...

The Magnetic Fields Were Divine and Asinine in Toronto

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, March 26

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2025

For all of the obvious pitfalls of the streaming era, having much of music history at our fingertips has given us the gift of being able to...

Black Country, New Road Live Up to Their Promise on "For the Cold Country"

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PUBLISHED Mar 26, 2025

I've been intrigued and a little confused by the way Black Country, New Road's 2022 album 'Ants from Up the There' has been embraced as a...

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...

The Darkness's 'Dreams on Toast' Are Stale but Endearingly Saucy

PUBLISHED Mar 24, 2025

At the turn of our innocent century, who would've guessed that 2025 would bring an eighth studio album from the Darkness? The infectious...

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...

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...