Music School

Joel Eel Pares Back His Studio Setup and Finds Love in the Circuitry

PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2018

Where is the love?   Right now it's on Toronto's Dundas Street West. We recently visited Joel Eel (born Chol Eul) at an apartment-cum-studi...

​Toronto's Root Down Studio and Jam Space, Formerly S.H.I.B.G.B.S., Wants Artists to Thrive

PUBLISHED Aug 27, 2018

Building community, connecting dots — that's the mission statement behind the Root Down, a rehearsal and pre-production space on Toronto's...

Icehouse Studio Brings Scandinavian Death Sounds to Goderich, Ontario

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2018

Goderich, ON is a rural town: beaches, farms, cottagers in summer. Not the kind of place you'd expect to find a thriving Scandinavian death...

Minimal Violence Find Home, Community and Inspiration in Vancouver's Deep Blue

PUBLISHED Jun 21, 2018

Just a stone's throw from the gentrification hub that is Vancouver's Olympic Village, there's a place you might not notice as you drive by....

Sandbox Studios Provides Low-Cost Recording and Support for Marginalized Toronto Communities

PUBLISHED May 9, 2018

"Anybody who grew up marginalized knows that when you don't see something very often, it becomes very difficult to dream about those things...

Orphx Combine Hamilton with Nature to Create Homemade Industrial Techno

PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2018

On a quiet residential street in Hamilton, ON, some of Canada's best industrial techno is made. Who would've thought?   Orphx duo Christina...

Ill Eagle Studio Houses a Toronto Pocket of Musical Family

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2018

Like so many things in rock, it started with the Beatles.   Dave Azzolini wanted to play some of their songs with his friends — 30 of them,...

​Where I Play

Practice at the Drake Underground

PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2017

It's no small feat for any live music venue to draw a large crowd on a Monday evening, but even more so when the crowd has no idea what to...