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Pipe Street Studio

PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

Of all the recording facilities hiding in residential houses in Guelph, Ontario, none is as much of a home as Pipe Street Studio. Fostered...

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Danny Michel Aboard the Khlebnikov

PUBLISHED Nov 14, 2016

Danny Michel has a history of approaching music with a sense of exploration — his 2012 album Black Birds Are Dancing Over Me was recorded i...

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Harrison

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2016

Three years ago, emerging producer Harrison was walking with a friend when the pair discovered an abandoned backpack near an underpass. Ins...

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Northern Studio

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2016

Call it a Montreal Assault — the technical deathcore that Despised Icon have been blasting from their hometown since 2002. The band — and t...

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Kate Maki and Frederick Squire

PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2016

For five years, songwriters Kate Maki and Frederick Squire (Shotgun & Jaybird, Daniel, Fred & Julie) have been living in Greater Sudbury's...

Holy Fuck

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PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016

Brian Borcherdt's basement studio in the west end of Toronto is just a ten-minute walk away from Graham Walsh's similar recording setup. Bu...

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LAL

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

For Toronto's LAL, the phrase "find safety" serves as both album title and mantra. It's also the name of the duo's fourth full-length studi...

Venetian Snares

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PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2016

The music made by Aaron Funk is weird to the extreme, and often profoundly terrifying. Traditionally embraced more by European audiences th...