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  Holy Fuck

  ​Where I Play

  PUBLISHED Jun 9, 2016

  Brian Borcherdt's basement studio in the west end of Toronto is just a ten-minute walk away from Graham Walsh's similar recording setup. Bu...

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  LAL

  PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2016

  For Toronto's LAL, the phrase "find safety" serves as both album title and mantra. It's also the name of the duo's fourth full-length studi...

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  Venetian Snares

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  PUBLISHED Mar 28, 2016

  The music made by Aaron Funk is weird to the extreme, and often profoundly terrifying. Traditionally embraced more by European audiences th...

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  Jim Bryson's Fixed Hinge

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2016

  Jim Bryson's excellent, long-awaited fifth album is called Somewhere We Will Find Our Place. It concerns the middle years of life; its inhe...

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  Metric's Giant Studios

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2015

  Giant Studios hates Kevin Drew.   The Broken Social Scene frontman is one of the few trusted friends that studio owner and Metric guitarist...

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  Will Currie and the Country French

  PUBLISHED Jul 6, 2015

  "Our band isn't what it was," Will Currie says, seated behind a Korg SV-1 keyboard in his cozy living room in Waterloo, ON. One of his band...

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  Kathryn Calder

  PUBLISHED Jun 5, 2015

  "To be honest, I don't know what half this stuff does, but that's okay." Kathryn Calder laughs, sitting in front of the sprawling console i...

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  Young Guv

  Mednick Mansion

  PUBLISHED Mar 31, 2015

  "Musical A.D.D." That's how musician, producer and label head Ben Cook characterizes his prodigious output.   It also explains how someone...