Articles by Laura Stanley

Sharon Van Etten Was Too Busy to Make an Album, Then She Wrote 40 Songs for 'Remind Me Tomorrow'

PUBLISHED Jan 16, 2019

In between going to school, having a baby, starring in the Netflix series The OA, writing the score for the film Strange Weather, and being...

Angelo De Augustine

Tomb

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2019

Angelo De Augustine's Tomb is a shrine to a former relationship. While the title suggests De Augustine's third full-length album is full of...

Kacey Musgraves, Mitski, "Yodel Kid" and Justin Timberlake: the Good and Bad of Cowboy Culture in 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 11, 2018

It's been another year of loud, reckless men taking up space, so it's fitting that pop culture was dominated by the cowboy, a hyper-masculi...

nêhiyawak Tackle the Past and Sound Like the Future on 'starlight'

PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2018

nêhiyawak — Marek Tyler, Kris Harper, and Matthew Cardinal — sit in a parked car in the River Valley of amiskwaciy (Edmonton) and carefully...

Daniel Romano Thinks 'Finally Free,' Which Came to Him in a Flash, Is His Best Yet

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2018

Daniel Romano thinks that Finally Free, his third album of 2018 following the surprise release of Nerveless and Human Touch in January, is...

nêhiyawak

starlight

PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2018

nêhiyawak's starlight doesn't really sound like anything else that's been released this year. Across the EP's five tracks, the Amiskwaciy (...

Kaia Kater Tells Her Father's Story on 'Grenades' and Ended Up Finding Herself

PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2018

On Boxing Day last year, Kaia Kater sat with her dad in his basement in Vancouver, turned on her audio recorder, and asked to hear his immi...

Kaia Kater

Grenades

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018

In an interview with Exclaim!, singer-songwriter Kaia Kater says, about Grenades, "I have processed a lot of things and definitely feel str...