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Protomartyr March Toward Love on 'Formal Growth in the Desert'
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
On Formal Growth in the Desert, Protomartyr's Joe Casey takes the band in a direction it's never gone before: toward love. The band's sixth...
Toronto's lavender wild Was the Sapphic Super Bowl
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
Toronto's inaugural sapphic Super Bowl, lavender wild, arrived at RBC Echo Beach in the nick of time, with the first weekend of Pride Month...
aja monet's 'when the poems do what they do' Is a Roadmap to Somewhere Greater
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
In a 2017 interview with gal-dem, aja monet said, "I don't share things for you to understand or feel me, I'm sharing something so that we...
Youth Lagoon Finds His Voice Again on 'Heaven Is a Junkyard'
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
Before Youth Lagoon was put on hiatus, Trevor Powers' dream pop project was defined by its ethereal intangibility. It possessed a sound and...
Godflesh Creep Toward the Light on 'Purge'
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
Six years have passed since we last heard from industrial metal legends Godflesh; while many things have changed in that period, the Englis...
'The Idol' Is Just as Superficial as You'd Expect
Created by Sam Levinson
PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2023
After a rocky lead-up marked by accusations of a toxic set and "torture porn," the first episode of The Idol is here — and despite the appa...
The Cure Were Alone in Space in Vancouver
Rogers Arena, June 2
PUBLISHED Jun 3, 2023
Astronauts frequently describe returning to Earth with a sense of profound despair. Viewed from a zoomed-out vantage point that engulfs thi...
'Yellowjackets' Is 'Lord of the Flies' with Extra Sting
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson
PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2023
Lord of the Flies is probably the best metaphor we've got for what happens when society breaks down and humans return to our most primal ur...