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'When Morning Comes' Captures the Bittersweet Beauty of a Childhood Memory
Directed by Kelly Fyffe-Marshall
PUBLISHED Sep 18, 2023
When Morning Comes tenderly displays the bittersweetness of longing for a place or person before even having said goodbye. The film begins...
Iggy Pop Brought Sweaty Swagger to Ottawa's CityFolk Festival
PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023
Nobody wants to let go of summer when September rolls around. Thankfully for Ottawa folk, CityFolk Festival arrives just in time to kick th...
The Beaches' 'Blame My Ex' Is a Win
PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023
As far as album titles go, you can't get much more pointed than Blame My Ex, the latest pull-no-punches full-length from the Beaches. Relea...
'Hate to Love: Nickelback' Has All the Right Reasons, but Little Insight
Directed by Leigh Brooks
PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023
If you still claim to hate Nickelback, trying listening to "Photograph" — and, this time, really listen to it, forgetting about all those c...
Gatlin Finds Something Like Closure on 'I Sleep Fine Now'
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PUBLISHED Sep 15, 2023
Clarity. That's the sheen-smeared word that first comes to mind when I think of Gatlin, a singer-songwriter who is actually from Orlando, F...
Baroness Are Streamlined and Focused on 'STONE'
PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2023
Since their first true full-length release, 2007's Red Album, Baroness have been trying to mutate their primal sound. The sludgy, progressi...
Loraine James Is Caught in the Anxieties of Digital Romance on "I DM U"
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PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2023
Loraine James's Gentle Confrontation is said to be an album the artist's younger self would have made, though its centrepiece "I DM U" capt...
Love's as Old as the Universe Itself on Big Thief's Radiant "Born for Loving You"
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PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2023
There's a very silly joke that stands out from 1982's Airplane II: The Sequel, when the flight is in trouble and the air traffic controller...