Articles by Aly Laube

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  Hyperpop Is the New Sound of Rebellion

  PUBLISHED Mar 25, 2021

  "Hyperpop almost has punk energy," says Quinton Barnes, a solo artist from Kitchener, ON. "It's so serious that people take it as frivolous...

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  TiKA's 'Anywhere but Here' Is an Exuberant Celebration of Black Queer Love

  PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2021

  "I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I'm something you will never understand," TiKA sings near the end of their debut record, Anywhere but Here...

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  Black Dresses Return from the Beyond for Their Freakish Magnum Opus, 'Forever in Your Heart'

  PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2021

  Black Dresses were a duo from Toronto that blew expectations of pop music out of the water, culminating in 2020's Peaceful as Hell. The duo...