September 2020 Issue

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  CERB Gave Canadian Musicians a Lifeline During Lockdown — Now, What's Next?

  PUBLISHED Aug 25, 2020

  The life of a musician is notoriously unstable. There's no insurance, no health benefits. All one can do is try to make ends meet between s...

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  The Metal Influences That Shape Backxwash's Ferocious Hip-Hop

  PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2020

  There's no denying that Backxwash is a rapper through and through — her industrial sound recalls the genre at its most abrasive, from horro...

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  Remembering Sloan's "Farewell" Concert 25 Years Later: How Edgefest '95 Became an Iconic Turning Point in CanRock History

  PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2020

  For nearly 30 years, long-standing pop-rockers Sloan and their timeless, feel-good tunes have become ingrained into Canadian music's fibres...

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  That Time Thrush Hermit Sabotaged Their Own Breakout Show

  PUBLISHED Aug 5, 2020

  The third instalment of Edgefest 1995 may have been advertised as Sloan's farewell show, but ask anybody there that day and they'll tell yo...

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  ​Meet Backxwash, the Montreal Rapper Who Wants to Burn Down the Music Industry and Rebuild from the Ground Up

  PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2020

  Backxwash is blazing her own path to the top of the music industry, and if you're not on board, you know where the door is. The Montreal-ba...