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Skye Wallace Is One Step Closer to Their Destination on 'The Act of Living'

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2024

Since debuting with the cinematic folk-rock suite 'Living Parts' in 2014, Skye Wallace has pondered life and death through their music...

Pom Pom Squad Step into Somewhere New on 'Mirror Starts Moving Without Me'

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2024

​​It's sort of fitting that 2024 would open with Jane Schoenbrun's second millennial-existentialist horror film 'I Saw the TV Glow' and...

Halsey Finds a Few Hats That Fit on 'The Great Impersonator'

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2024

Halsey is no stranger to impersonation. The 2010s Tumblr darling, born Ashley Frangipane, has lived many lives in their decade-long career...

Yoo Doo Right Expand Their Limits on 'From the Heights of Our Pastureland'

PUBLISHED Oct 31, 2024

One of the most spellbinding bands in a city full of them, Montreal's Yoo Doo Right have become an impeccably well-oiled machine both live...

Magi Merlin Explores New Corners of Her Chameleonic Cosmos with "Bip"

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PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2024

Naming Magi Merlin's 2022 EP 'Gone Girl' as one of the best albums of that year was no overstatement, with its soulful molten core and...

Lia Kuri Synthesizes Climate Crisis and Caretaking on 'Motherland'

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PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024

I basically haven't shut up about Afternoon Bike Ride, Lia Kuri's trio with David Tanton and Éloi Le Blanc-Ringuette, since Exclaim!'s...

Laura Marling's 'Patterns in Repeat' Unites Greenwich Village and Greenwich, London

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PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024

It's hard to make folk music in the mould of '60s/'70s singer-songwriters without sounding like mere imitation. With Halloween coming up...

Maggie Rogers Was Proof of Concept in Toronto

Coca-Cola Coliseum, October 22

PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2024

When I interviewed Maggie Rogers in 2022, she existed at the centre of a rare Venn diagram I was also precariously occupying as someone...