Music School

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  How Toronto's Music Scene Is Responding to the Rehearsal Space Shortage

  PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2022

  As PUP ascended through the music industry during the past decade, they skipped what many bands consider to be an important rite of passage...

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  In an Era of Home Recording, Producers Still Find a Home in the Studio

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2022

  On the eighth trip Gayance took to Brazil, she had a spiritual epiphany. She found herself seeing altars everywhere — in the street, a back...

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  Musicians Are Connecting with Their Fans over Discord

  PUBLISHED Nov 29, 2021

  Several months ago, Steven Page was preparing for one of his Live from Home virtual concerts when he ran into trouble synchronizing his aud...

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  TiKA Breaks Down Barriers in Film and TV with Creative Agency for BIPOC Composers

  PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2021

  TiKA was about seven years old when she first watched Polly, Walt Disney's 1989 made-for-TV musical adaptation of Pollyanna. Directed and c...

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  The Pandemic Changed How Artists Release Music — but Will It Stick Around?

  PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2021

  The OBGMs entered 2020 with a new record and something to prove. It had been three years since the Toronto-based band released new music an...

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  Sex Parties, Laugh Therapy, Freezing Rinks: A Glimpse into the Strange Life of a Session Musician

  PUBLISHED Apr 21, 2021

  In March 2004 or 2005 — the date's a little fuzzy, all these years later — drummer Cary Pratt was hired to play a private Mardi Gras party...

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  The Kount — Toronto's Latest All-Star Beatmaker — Catches the Ear of Madlib, Noname and More

  PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2021

  Koal Harrison is not the first producer to hail Madlib as a ruler of rhythm and beats, nor will he be the last. But the Toronto-based music...

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  '2 Much TV' Podcast Turns Must-See TV Into Must-Hear Music

  PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2021

  When the pandemic hit, you could have forgiven Sam Bielanski and Matty Morand for drowning their sorrows in television, as so many of us di...