Articles by Emilie Hanskamp

Mustafa's Prophetic Poetry Holds a Mirror Up to the Pain and Beauty Around Him

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2024

In Max Porter's novel 'Grief Is the Thing with Feathers' a father sits his two sons down to tell them their mother has died. As they sit at...

Khruangbin Go from Farm to Fame: "We've Done Everything That You Shouldn't Do"

PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2024

"I always say we're the band that did every single thing wrong." Over a Friday morning Zoom call, Khruangbin drummer Donald "DJ" Johnson...

Jeremy Dutcher Balances Beauty and Pain

PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2023

If you stop by the ground floor of the Killarney Lake Lodge in Wolastokuk (Fredericton, NB), you'll find a class of 12 students. Aged three...

Does AI Pose a Mortal Threat to the Music Industry, or Is it Just "Another Tool in the Toolkit"?

PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023

"David Bowie doing a somersault." In the time it took to type the prompt, an image of "Heroes"-era Bowie loads on the mounted TV, his legs...

Daniel Caesar Rips Up the Formula: "I'm Only Going to Go More and More Off the Rails"

PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2023

.Daniel Caesar has been wrestling with his ego.  He sets the scene of himself on a remote farm in Peterborough, ON, laboriously drafting a...

SZA Brought Theatrics to Toronto — but All She Really Needed Was the Mic

Scotiabank Arena, February 25

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2023

SZA sat at the edge of a diving board, her legs dangling from above as she looked down over Toronto's sold-out Scotiabank Arena. Ocean wate...

Andy Shauf's Sinister, Lovesick 'Norm' Will Have You Looking over Your Shoulder

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2023

Andy Shauf is a world-builder, and over the years he's granted listeners a visitor's pass into the lives of a motley crew of characters. We...

Andy Shauf Is Trying to "Live Like a Successful Dentist"

PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2023

It's 2009. A 21-year-old Andy Shauf sits on the set of Stripped Down, a local music program based in his native Saskatchewan. He's hiding b...