reviews
The Mars Volta Throw Away Their Own Rulebook on Self-Titled Album
PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2022
Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez have always been iconoclasts. From the antipathy that imploded At the Drive-In, to the apathy...
Rolling Loud Toronto Was for the Children
PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2022
After a summer of anticipation, the first-ever Rolling Loud in Canada has come and gone, and like the end of summer, it resulted in a mixed...
'The End of Sex' Has Some New Awkward Sexual Adventures
Directed by Sean Garrity
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2022
A decade ago, Sean Garrity, Emily Hampshire and Jonas Chernick premiered My Awkward Sexual Adventure at TIFF — a film about an uptight acco...
Greber Find Details Amid the Noise on Punishing 'Fright Without'
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2022
While it features much of what listeners have come to expect from Greber, Fright Without — the band's first record in four years — is full...
Quebec's Festival de Musique Émergente Showed Why It's Canada's Unicorn Festival
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2022
Just like most people, most music festivals think they're special. But in the case of Festival de Musique Émergente (FME if you're in the k...
Sampa the Great Weaves Past and Present on the Electrifying 'As Above, So Below'
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2022
After making a splash with her 2019 debut album The Return, Zambian-born and Botswana-raised rapper Sampa The Great has faced the sophomore...
Preoccupations Are as Bleak as Ever — and the World Has Finally Caught Up on 'Arrangements'
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2022
Since forming in 2012 under their now-disavowed Viet Cong moniker, Preoccupations have made each subsequent record under an increasingly he...
Sudan Archives Wears Her Crown Proudly on 'Natural Brown Prom Queen'
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2022
Brittney Parks is nothing if not a chameleon. Under the name Sudan Archives, the Cincinnati-bred, L.A.-based singer-songwriter-violinist ha...