Articles by Emilie Hanskamp
Khruangbin Go from Farm to Fame: "We've Done Everything That You Shouldn't Do"
PUBLISHED Apr 2, 2024
"I always say we're the band that did every single thing wrong." Over a Friday morning Zoom call, Khruangbin drummer Donald "DJ" Johnson...
Jeremy Dutcher Balances Beauty and Pain
PUBLISHED Oct 3, 2023
If you stop by the ground floor of the Killarney Lake Lodge in Wolastokuk (Fredericton, NB), you'll find a class of 12 students. Aged three...
Does AI Pose a Mortal Threat to the Music Industry, or Is it Just "Another Tool in the Toolkit"?
PUBLISHED Jul 11, 2023
"David Bowie doing a somersault." In the time it took to type the prompt, an image of "Heroes"-era Bowie loads on the mounted TV, his legs...
Daniel Caesar Rips Up the Formula: "I'm Only Going to Go More and More Off the Rails"
PUBLISHED Apr 5, 2023
.Daniel Caesar has been wrestling with his ego. He sets the scene of himself on a remote farm in Peterborough, ON, laboriously drafting a...
SZA Brought Theatrics to Toronto — but All She Really Needed Was the Mic
Scotiabank Arena, February 25
PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2023
SZA sat at the edge of a diving board, her legs dangling from above as she looked down over Toronto's sold-out Scotiabank Arena. Ocean wate...
Andy Shauf's Sinister, Lovesick 'Norm' Will Have You Looking over Your Shoulder
PUBLISHED Feb 13, 2023
Andy Shauf is a world-builder, and over the years he's granted listeners a visitor's pass into the lives of a motley crew of characters. We...
Andy Shauf Is Trying to "Live Like a Successful Dentist"
PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2023
It's 2009. A 21-year-old Andy Shauf sits on the set of Stripped Down, a local music program based in his native Saskatchewan. He's hiding b...
Christine and the Queens' 'Redcar et les adorables étoiles (prologue)' Is Pure Id
PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2022
We throw around the word "reinvention" a lot. An artist changes a hairstyle, takes the jump from rock to rap, or drops a syllable from thei...