The Terrifying, Techno-Dystopian Visions of Grimes’s New Album
The singer’s new album explores a dark truth: the most dangerous social forces are also the ones that fascinate us
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When Sexism Makes for a Catchy Song
My songwriting students pen misogynistic lyrics. But the music industry tells them that’s okay
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When a Juno-Nominated Musician Lives in a Refugee Camp
Her album was up for a major prize, but recognition doesn’t change the reality of being a displaced person
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In Times of Crisis, We Need Classical Music
What will we lose if Bach and Beethoven disappear from our schools and concert halls?
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Learning to Forgive My Distant Father
I always knew my dad loved me. But he often seemed to love his music more
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Leonard Cohen’s Afterlife
A posthumous collection, finished days before his death, reveals the artist at his most intimate
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How Jeremy Dutcher Keeps His Ancestors’ Language Alive
Fewer than 10,000 Wolastoq people live in First Nations communities. The twenty-seven-year-old sings their songs
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How to Make a Hit Song in 2018
Why artists are rethinking old formulas for chart-topping music
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The Radical Notion of Safe Spaces in Music
Toronto’s Venus Fest is part of a movement to prove our music scenes can be free of sexism
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