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Lido Pimienta Takes Us Inside the Studio Where She Created Polaris Prize-Winning Album 'La Papessa'

PUBLISHED Oct 2, 2017

In Toronto, Lido Pimienta is home.   It took the dissolution of her marriage for the Colombian-born, 2017 Polaris Music Prize winner to rea...

Drake, Big Sean Beatsmith FrancisGotHeat Is Toronto's Next Big Producer

PUBLISHED Aug 29, 2017

"After that first beat I made — I mean, it's horrible, but I've listened to it hundreds of times — I thought, 'This is what I want to do fo...

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DAIS

PUBLISHED Jul 21, 2017

Like any creative and philosophical person, Sol Guy thinks a lot about the state of art in modern society. But there was one question in pa...

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SlowPitchSound

PUBLISHED May 25, 2017

Slow. Things. Down. This is the motto and method of Toronto producer Cheldon Paterson, aka SlowPitchSound. Listeners of his previous releas...

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Decries "Disrespectful, Irresponsible" Music Streaming, Calls Spotify "Really Horrible"

PUBLISHED May 5, 2017

Throughout his illustrious run as one of the most prolific and singular artistic forces to have emerged in the past 25 years (as Bonnie 'Pr...

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Elliott BROOD

PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2017

Elliott BROOD's current HQ in Hamilton, ON's Beasley Village has a mysterious past. Now a cozy, somewhat spartan yet fully functional rehea...

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Microforum Vinyl Record Pressing

PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2017

If you've ever flipped through a bin of used records in Canada, chances are that much of what you found was pressed here. Canada's history...

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Ice Cream

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2016

Where others see limitations, Ice Cream see opportunity. Listening to the duo laugh about the time they forgot one of their synthesizers be...