Articles by Laura Stanley

The Highwomen

The Highwomen

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2019

The Highwomen came to be in 2016, when Amanda Shires had the idea to put together an all-female country supergroup, partly in response to t...

Fionn Regan

Cala

PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2019

Not unlike his previous record, 2017's The Meetings of the Waters, Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan fixates on water on his sixth album,...

Angie McMahon

Salt

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2019

On her debut album, Salt, Melbourne, Australia-based singer-songwriter Angie McMahon is looking for her place in the world. On the standout...

​Ada Lea's Debut Album Makes 'what we say in private' Public

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2019

On the cover of her debut album what we say in private, Alexandra Levy (better known as Ada Lea) stoically looks into the camera while hold...

Ada Lea

what we say in private

PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2019

When her relationship ended, Alexandra Levy (Ada Lea) wrote in her journal for 180 days as a way to work through her emotions and reconnect...

At Jonas Bonnetta's Port William Sound Studio, Beauty Is the Only Distraction

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2019

At the dead end of a tree-lined, gravel sideroad in Mountain Grove, ON — a sleepy rural town located about an hour north of Kingston and 90...

Why Karen Carpenter Matters

By Karen Tongson

PUBLISHED Jul 8, 2019

On the Carpenters' song "I Won't Last A Day Without You" — a typical soft-rock love ballad from the brother-sister duo — Karen Carpenter, i...

Bedouine Lets Go, Opens Up on New Album 'Bird Songs of a Killjoy'

PUBLISHED Jun 22, 2019

Bedouine's new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy (out now via Spacebomb Records), is centred on letting go. Bedouine's Azniv Korkejian return...