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Forward-thinking R&B artist Cautious Clay has a lot to say

It’s possibly a bit of understatement to say that 2018 was an interesting one for Josh Karpeh.

Five Songs About: true crime

Welcome once again to Five Songs About, our new weekly (maybe) feature in which we pick a topic and then dig through music history to find relevant songs by some of our favourite...

Album of the Week: Glove and Ghost does its best to conjure up a paranoid past

Sometimes it’s better when you don’t know exactly what you’re listening to.

Five Songs About: the music industry

SPOILER ALERT: people don't tend to write songs about the music biz when they're feeling good about it.

Seven Nines and Tens' David Cotton on releasing cassettes in a digital age and mixing stoner metal with jazz

You can officially call yourself a music-scene veteran when someone wants to assemble everything you've ever recorded and re-release it as a deluxe package. David Cotton qualifies...

Album of the Week: Put Dead Popstar on your "depressing” playlist

Imagine Skinny Puppy without the shifting rhythms and caustic noise.

The best, worst, and weirdest of music in 2018

Our favourite musical headlines, from the year in Bieber to jamming with Archie.

The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018–Day 24: Bing Crosby and David Bowie

This is it! Santa comes tonight! Too late to sneak onto the nice list.

The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 23: Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra

It's 1967 and Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra are the kings of the Rat Pack.

The Georgia Straight musical advent calendar for Christmas 2018—Day 22: Thurl Ravenscroft

There are some songs that should just never, ever be sung by anyone other than the original artist. This is one of them.