Tagged Toronto

What happens when the Asian-Canadian thought daughter of our generation goes through a breakup? Luna Li's latest and greatest LP When a Thought Grows Wings (2024) provides a lush, heart-shattering answer. Captu...

Weaving through San Francisco on BART and MUNI, I arrived at a building that didn’t look like much from the outside except for the classic-looking sign announcing SYML and Dizzy. When I walked in, I was welco...

On April 17th, Toronto-based duo Loji released their seventh single “Hunt,” a bouncy electro-pop anthem that leads any listener down a tunnel of ultimate distress and nirvana. Ever so gracefully walking the...

You can’t throw a stone these days without hitting a band that spells their own name wrong on purpose. Perhaps that stands more as a testament to the sheer mass of existing bands past and present than pure st...

On the cover of Roadhouse 01 (2017), Allan Rayman stares down the camera, bearded and underexposed. It’s probably the first time listeners have seen him, not that that would upset him – the social-media-and...

Nav has been a darling of hip-hop forums and blogs for a while now, but is a relative newcomer to the charts. The "first brown boy to get it poppin'”  ("Some Way," NAV)  drew a crowd, and after murmu...

Originally from Toronto, art pop band Weaves turns three years old this month. Having only an EP that came out April 2014, this month of June also marks the release of their self-titled debut album -- an enthu...

Drake once said that by the time he turned 30, he planned to no longer be rapping. I remember feeling respect for this; he was an artist in his prime recognizing that aging artists rarely come close to their ca...