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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...
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...
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...
Eliza Niemi Finds the Magic in Mundanity on 'Progress Bakery'
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PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2025
"Quirky" has developed a bit of a negative connotation lately. Or maybe it's always had one? Either way, I feel bad that it seems the...
Superheaven Reach a New Peak on "Stare at the Void"
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PUBLISHED Mar 20, 2025
Admittedly, I hadn't heard of Superheaven until their viral "Youngest Daughter" moment following the 10th anniversary of that song's mother...
Wares' Cassia Hardy Makes Edmonton Sound Just Like Heaven on "Empress"
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PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2025
Wares leader Cassia Hardy has released a solo single paying tribute to the Empress Ale House, an Edmonton pub and venue that shut down back...
