Articles by Kyle Kohner

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  Jordaan Mason & Their Orchestra 'REWRITE THE WORDS AGAIN' with Honesty and Heart

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2022

  While certainly not unknown, Toronto's Jordaan Mason and their sprawling catalogue have maintained an obscure presence with a small but dev...

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  Preoccupations Are as Bleak as Ever — and the World Has Finally Caught Up on 'Arrangements'

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2022

  Since forming in 2012 under their now-disavowed Viet Cong moniker, Preoccupations have made each subsequent record under an increasingly he...

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  Deliluh Push Their Art Punk Beyond Borders on 'Fault Lines'

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2022

  Since last hearing from Toronto punks Deliluh, things have changed — drastically. After taking the city's scene to "strange and compelling...

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  Bleachers Shakily Tries to Be the Boss on 'Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night'

  PUBLISHED Jul 27, 2021

  The trail of desire that leads to Jack Antonoff, writer and producer of some of the biggest pop albums released within the past decade, is...

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  McKinley Dixon Delivers Impressive Hip-Hop Storytelling on 'For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her'

  PUBLISHED May 3, 2021

  Death hangs heavy in the mind of rising Virginia rapper McKinley Dixon. In 2018, his best friend was killed, which Dixon describes as feeli...

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  Arlo Parks' 'Collapsed in Sunbeams' Shows Her Potential to Become the Voice of a Generation

  PUBLISHED Jan 25, 2021

  On her long-awaited debut album, Collapsed in Sunbeams, British phenom Arlo Parks has delivered an essential reprieve from what has been a...

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  Megan Thee Stallion Stands Above Her Peers on 'Good News'

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2020

  With unabashed raunchiness, shoot-to-kill confidence, and dizzying wordplay, rapper Megan Thee Stallion has been too often described as the...

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  Told Slant Embraces the Perils of Intimacy on 'Point the Flashlight and Walk'

  PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2020

  For Brooklyn singer-songwriter, Felix Walworth, a.k.a. Told Slant, the gravity of devotion is a risk that has never weighed heavier. So hea...