Summer 2022 Issue

Sheryl Crow Documentary Breezes Past the Best Parts

Directed by Amy Scott

PUBLISHED May 19, 2022

The irony of music documentaries is that the music is usually the least interesting thing about them. That's certainly true of Sheryl, a mo...

Kendrick Lamar Delivers Game-Changing Vulnerability on 'Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers'

PUBLISHED May 16, 2022

When Kendrick Lamar, one of this generation's most influential artists, dropped future Pulitzer Prize history-maker DAMN. some 1,800 days a...

Tank and the Bangas' 'Red Balloon' Bursts with Infectious Energy

PUBLISHED May 12, 2022

While the term 'magical' is often cliché and overused, describing Tank and the Bangas as such is completely accurate. Whether you were intr...

'Hacks' Season 2 Uses Humour to Make Sense of Messy Relationships

Created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky

PUBLISHED May 11, 2022

Not much changes in Vegas. Clocks are notoriously absent from casino walls, creating a container within which patrons are suspended outside...

Arcade Fire Step Off Their Pedestal for 'WE'

PUBLISHED May 4, 2022

It's no coincidence the set for their 2017 tour was a wrestling ring: Arcade Fire had done a heel turn. Since quickly becoming one of the b...

How Toronto's Music Scene Is Responding to the Rehearsal Space Shortage

PUBLISHED Apr 12, 2022

As PUP ascended through the music industry during the past decade, they skipped what many bands consider to be an important rite of passage...