Articles by EJ Kneifel
Caroline Rose
Superstar
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2020
Caroline Rose's Superstar is a sketch show starring insecurity, unasked questions and the ego we could crash into a storefront and still de...
Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir Started Over After a Fire, Inspiring Sci-Fi Tale 'Hollow'
PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2020
After a fire in 2017 destroyed almost everything his family owned, Elephant Stone's Rishi Dhir got to thinking: "When you lose everything,...
Vagabon
Vagabon
PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2019
Vagabon's Lætitia Tamko is looping back; her self-titled second album is riddled with synths and curious, searching house-pop that's periph...
Lala Lala
Sleepyhead
PUBLISHED Aug 28, 2019
"Take it / take it [...] take it / away," stutters Lala Lala's Lillie West, her gauzy voice floating through synth clouds. Then, dead-eyed,...
Thelma
La Sotterenea, Montreal QC, June 9
PUBLISHED Jun 10, 2019
Natasha Jacobs' four-braided voice tugged bodies towards her from La Sotterenea's adjacent billiard bar. Feet planted, voice wobbling, she...
King Princess
Theatre Corona, Montréal QC, May 24
PUBLISHED May 25, 2019
Mikaela Straus, crowned King Princess, is a regular heartthrob. At a prompt five-to-nine, she strutted onstage to actual screams, which wer...
Caroline Rose
L'escogriffe, Montreal QC, May 5
PUBLISHED May 6, 2019
Not much can pull people inside when the evening air is still light as denim. But as Sunday's sun set, a second summer flared in the cataco...
Kelsey Lu
Blood
PUBLISHED Apr 18, 2019
Kelsey Lu's debut is a continent — neither linear, nor loyal to one cardinal direction. She chases dream states on "Due West," only to arri...
