Articles by Noah Ciubotaru

Yaeji Smashes the Barrier Between Past and Future on 'With a Hammer'

PUBLISHED Apr 6, 2023

Kathy Yaeji Lee, the singer-producer-DJ known simply as Yaeji, keeps four notebooks in rotation, each with its own purpose: one resembles a...

Lana Del Rey Is Lost in Thought on the Radiant 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd'

PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2023

A shift occured about halfway through Lana Del Rey's 2017 album Lust for Life, the turning point marked by a song called "Coachella – Woods...

Weyes Blood Reached for Something True in Vancouver

Commodore Ballroom, March 21

PUBLISHED Mar 22, 2023

If Natalie Mering's lyrics were printed in a book, it'd be the kind publishers and critics would extol as "essential reading," a timely tre...

Toronto's poolblood Wrestles with Tenderness on the Sparkling 'mole'

PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2023

At a 2021 virtual showcase hosted by Toronto's Long Winter festival, poolblood's Maryam Said contributed a video of themselves playing an o...

'The White Lotus' Season 2 Can't Rework Its Winning Formula

Created by Mike White

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2022

The first season of HBO's The White Lotus — created, written and directed by Mike White — repeatedly circled around the theme of animalisti...

WILLOW Breaks Through on 'COPINGMECHANISM'

PUBLISHED Oct 6, 2022

Around the outset of summer 2021, articles declaring a pop-punk revival started to proliferate, hypothesizing its causes and naming its amb...

Florence + the Machine Offered Vancouver an Otherwordly Escape

Rogers Arena, October 4

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2022

Florence Welch ran off stage to make physical contact with the crowd three times during her headlining performance at Vancouver's Rogers Ar...

'Los Espookys' Season 2 Perfects Its Incomparable Style of Comedy

Created by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega and Fred Armisen

PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2022

For a series about four friends' informal service that devises surreal scenarios to resolve clients' predicaments, Los Espookys dedicates a...