Articles by Marko Djurdjić
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....