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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Lido Pimienta Doesn’t Care Whether You Think She’s Canadian
Neither English nor French, this year’s Polaris Prize winner is a truer reflection of our country’s culture
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Why a Country Music Act Will Never Win the Polaris
Canada’s narrow cultural taxonomy excludes some of our best artists
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Carly Rae Jepsen Hasn’t Earned Your Scholarly Scrutiny
Contemporary culture writers warp their subjects out of proportion by applying more gravitas than is warranted by the source material
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Why Are There so Few Female Conductors?
For women, the symphony is not so different from the boardroom
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Try to Say the Grace
Leonard Cohen passes away at eighty-two
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Rap on Trial
How courts are using song lyrics to convict young black men
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No Birthday
The world’s oldest noise band turns fifty
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Call It a Comeback
In the ’90s, alternative music killed big shiny tunes. How pop has returned from the dead
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