Interview

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  Joan Chen on Progress Hollywood Made to Get to 'Dìdi (弟弟)'

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2024

  When Joan Chen moved to California from Shanghai, she had just won Best Actress at the Hundred Flowers Awards (at the time considered to be...

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  Toronto's Lexxicon Joyfully Brings Queer Pride to Dancehall

  PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2024

  Lexxicon wants to leave as big a mark on dancehall as the genre has had on him. The Toronto musician may very well pull that off with...

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  'Alien: Romulus' Director Fede Álvarez Is Sick of Hollywood's Obsession with Opening Weekends

  PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2024

  "The [focus on] opening weekend is more based on the fact that most movies are terrible and they think you can hopefully fool people into...

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  k-os Celebrates the "Eureka Moment" of 'Joyful Rebellion' as Sophomore LP Turns 20

  PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2024

  k-os's second album was never supposed to happen. Despite having had some early success, Kevin Brereton named his 2002 debut album Exit, an...

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  Energy Slime Embrace Musical and Personal Transformation

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2024

  On the song "Negative Attention" from 'Planet Perfect' the wonderfully danceable full-length debut by Vancouver's Energy Slime, Jay Arner...

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  beabadoobee’s Music Remains an Insular World, Even as She Finds Fame: "I Was About to Shit Myself Every Second on Stage"

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2024

  When beabadoobee hit the road as one of the opening acts on Taylor Swift's Eras Tour, she figured she would get over her initial stage...

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  Inside the Cult of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

  PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2024

  In 2019, it felt weird to see King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard two nights in a row. Living in Ottawa at the time, travelling to Toronto...

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  Fcukers Accidentally Become a Hype Band, Despite Being "Jaded with the Music Industry"

  PUBLISHED Jul 31, 2024

  "We're not going to be a press band," Fcukers bassist-keyboardist-producer Jackson Walker Lewis tells me over Zoom. The NYC trio of Lewis...