Articles by Marko Djurdjić

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  KEN Mode Are Cold, Brutal and Somehow Inviting on 'Void'

  PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2023

  There are many ways people deal with trauma, with pain, with isolation. Some retreat into themselves; others search for company and connect...

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  ​KEN mode Reclaim Their Crown: "We Became Like Poison — Pariahs"

  PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2023

  What do you do when you're a highly respected heavy act who have worked with some of the most sought-after producers in metal and punk, won...

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  CHAI's Self-Titled Album Is Sweet and Sticky but Never Saccharine

  PUBLISHED Sep 19, 2023

  Japanese pop experimentalists CHAI espouse a philosophy that they call Neo Kawaii. A reference to the Japanese word for cute, Kawaii encour...

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  The Armed Are Everything at Once on 'Perfect Saviours'

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2023

  The Armed are a band who, in the past, have been a lot of things at once: ambiguous, anonymous, hyperbolic and wholly mysterious. That is,...

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  Bonnie "Prince" Billy's 'Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You' Has Nothing to Hide

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2023

  As an artist and creative, Will Oldham — a.k.a. Bonnie "Prince" Billy — has led a rather envious life. He's appeared in over a dozen films...

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  Toronto's New Friends Fest 2023 Celebrated the Subversive Force of Community

  PUBLISHED Aug 8, 2023

  Started in 2017, New Friends Fest  — Toronto's preeminent (post)hardcore, punk and screamo festival — held its fourth, devastatingly loud i...

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  Hand Habits Lets the Light in on 'Sugar the Bruise'

  PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2023

  As Hand Habits, Meg Duffy has released three striking albums — 2017's Wildly Idle (Humble Before the Void), 2019's Placeholder and 2021's F...

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  Boris & Uniform Compartmentalize the Catharsis on 'Bright New Disease'

  PUBLISHED Jun 13, 2023

  In March 2020, I was preparing to go see Uniform play with the Body; due to the onset of the pandemic, that concert never came to fruition....