Interview

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  Feist Searches for "Useful Truths" Within Life's Dizzying Highs and Tragic Lows

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2023

  We tend to ask songs for confirmation of our experience, to tell our stories in ways more beautiful than we allow for ourselves. We lay our...

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  Tim Baker Remembers Hey Rosetta!'s 'Into Your Lungs' and How It Ultimately Broke Up the Band

  PUBLISHED Apr 10, 2023

  Tim Baker is in on the joke.The singer-songwriter from St. John's, NL, offers up a trademark sheepish grin when confronted with a now-15-ye...

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  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...

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  The Magic of boygenius Goes Beyond Music

  PUBLISHED Apr 4, 2023

  "Bitch, I don't know!" Lucy Dacus sighs, exasperated. She's trying to determine how she weaponizes her attachment style.  It's been a long...

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  Crown Lands Are 'Fearless' as Ever in Expanding Their Progressive Rock Ambition

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2023

  Cody Bowles and Kevin Comeau affirm that walking the path to progressive rock preeminence was always their plan. As Crown Lands, the duo fi...

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  A.C. Newman Ranks the 5 Best New Pornographers Songs

  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2023

  The New Pornographers were never really supposed to last. As a collective made up of musicians from other projects — notably including alt-...

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  DEBBY FRIDAY Explores the Uncharted Land of Herself

  PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2023

  It took some convincing for DEBBY FRIDAY to release "SO HARD TO TELL" — an undeniable sonic departure from her brash, dark and twisted expe...

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  The Myths of Anthony Shim's 'Riceboy Sleeps' Are Grounded in Real-Life Experience

  PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2023

  In the beginning of Riceboy Sleeps, a lavender-orange sun blankets South Korea like a burning god over water that looks unmoving, uncaring....