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Beams Are Bright and Menacing on 'The Spark in Your Eye'
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PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023
Moving further away from their folksier-leanings of yore, Toronto's Beams returned in August with their psych-rock-adjacent three-track EP...
'Eternal Memory' Highlights the Beauty and Pain of Love After Alzheimer's
Directed by Maite Alberdi
PUBLISHED Aug 17, 2023
At first glance, Augusto Gongora (a prominent journalist and cultural commentator) and Paulina Urrutia (an actress and former culture minis...
Sweeping Promises Burned Through the Apathy in Toronto
The Garrison, August 15
PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2023
The Garrison was respectably attended but not packed, the air warm but not hot, the energy palpable but not necessarily electric — it was a...
Resavoir's "Inside Minds" Is a Soundtrack for Shortening Days
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PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2023
Even if you aren't immediately familiar with Resavoir by name, there's a good chance you've heard the sounds of its leader, Will Miller, so...
Melody and Intensity Collide on Fiddlehead's 'Death Is Nothing to Us'
PUBLISHED Aug 16, 2023
Leave it to the guy who wrote "Armed with a Mind" almost 20 years ago to go on to lead one of the most cerebral punk bands of the present d...
Genesis Owusu Puts the World on Notice with 'Struggler'
PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2023
Genesis Owusu is a star. With Struggler, the Ghanaian-Australian artist builds on the strengths of his multifaceted debut — 2021's Smiling...
P:ano Are Back in All Their Glory on "Hollow Stars"
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PUBLISHED Aug 15, 2023
P:ano's 2005 album Brigadoon is on my Mount Rushmore of Vancouver indie rock records from the 2000s (alongside Mass Romantic, Streethawk: A...
'This Place' Embraces the Flaws and Contradictions of a Real Love Story
Directed by V.T. Nayani
PUBLISHED Aug 14, 2023
This Place opens with a chance encounter: two men onboard a flight in 1989 to Montreal are seated next to each other. This small and seemin...