By: Ovo Grant-Oyeye In January of this year, I was pleasantly surprised by a new Gorillaz single sitting on my YouTube homepage. When you get into an artist that already has a substantial body of work, it’s an interesting experience… Continue Reading
By: Ammar Mooraj I grew up surrounded by mostly white people. My friends, classes, and teachers were overwhelmingly white, and I don’t mean purely in skin tone. I mean culturally. I was raised with a real underlying sense that Euro-derivative… Continue Reading
By: Hayley Foote At 21 years old, Montreal artist Lowgo has almost 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. His remix of Ezra Lewis’s “Wishes” has over 700,000 listens. However, what’s most impressive is that, with the exception of one song, he’s… Continue Reading
By: Ammar Mooraj Xavier “Sleepydog” Hall is one of the strongest examples of how art reflects the artist. Sleepydog, for the unaware, is an artist known for his midwest-emo/math rock music. His most popular video on YouTube has 2.2 million… Continue Reading
The past few years saw Nicholas Munöz, better known as Boy Pablo, infiltrate the indie-rock music scene with a steady release of singles and EPs. That’s why his accumulated fan base was more than happy to finally see the release… Continue Reading
Since mid-March, when the world was put on hold, many people have been left alone with their thoughts. Some people used this time to pick up new hobbies, learn a language, or binge-watch a TV show, while others have used… Continue Reading
By Hayley Foote After two years in the making, Montreal artist CRi has finally released his debut album. A magical, hopeful, electric, adventurous, and intoxicating affair, Juvenile solidifies a career-catapulting entrance into the pop-electronic scene as well as the beginnings… Continue Reading
For a while now, intellectuals far more qualified than myself have been saying that masculinity is in crisis. On the right, they see the fight against toxic masculinity as an attack on all masculinity, and, on the left, there has… Continue Reading
If you listen to Qi Yama’s music, his influences are pretty clear. He takes after some of the more melancholic hip-hop artists of the 21st century like Frank Ocean, Kid Cudi, and 808s-era Kanye, making a sort of lo-fi sad… Continue Reading
Not many others compare to the uniqueness of Gorillaz, even if it stems solely from the fact that they’re technically a virtual band. Though their lifespan has traversed over two decades, they continue to develop varieties of post-modern sounds. In… Continue Reading