Contrived

Welcome to the T-Shirt Business: Canadian Musicians Show Off Their Favourite Band Merch

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Oct 10, 2024

The music industry has sometimes been facetiously referred to as "the T-shirt business" — a funny and self-deprecating reminder that...

Contrived Are 'Addicted to Sadness' on First New Album in 15 Years, Share "Half of It"

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2024

Halifax indie outfit Contrived —consisting of Wintersleep's Michael Bigelo, Tim D'Eon and Loel Campbell (who also played in Holy Fuck), as...

Contrived

Blank, Blank, Blank

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2009

What do you do when you're not invited to the big party? Throw your own and invite the coolest kid in school. At least that's what the folk...

Thoughts on 2008: Contrived

PUBLISHED Dec 24, 2008

To tide us over while we indulge in the holiday spirit gorging on stuffing and egg nog, we asked a bunch of musicians to tell us their thou...

Contrived

Pursuit of Plots

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2002

Though Canada's East coast has long been known for sugary, Beatles-influenced indie rock, it seems a new movement of cleverly aggressive ha...