Run the Jewels’ last album dropped mere weeks after Donald Trump’s election victory. Now, the provocative rap duo ret…
Lil Yachty’s personality still shines with ‘Lil Boat 3’
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Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is extravagant and personal
After taking a couple diversions from her status as a world-dominating pop star, including a stripped-back country-po…
Polarizing and provocative: The 1975 return with ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’
Polarizing and provocative pop-rock outfit The 1975 have only striven harder and harder to make the kind of experimen…
Tove Lo claims her throne at the Vogue
Tove Lo at the Vogue Theatre, 2/23/20 On February 12 in New York City, Tove Lo danced so hard during a performance of…
Tones and I dances one more time at the Imperial
Tones and I with Lime Cordiale at the Imperial, 2/12/20 Contrary to popular belief, Tones and I is not actually a tee…
YBN Cordae blends old and new rap styles at Fortune
YBN Cordae, 24kgoldn and LONR at Fortune Sound Club, 1/17/20 YBN Cordae first put himself on everyone’s radar with a …
Rap collective Brockhampton display strong bonds and blazing verses
Brockhampton and 100 Gecs at the PNE Forum, 10/26/19 Created on a Kanye West fan forum, experimental rap collective B…
Kero Kero Bonito thrill cult following with a genre-bending experience
Kero Kero Bonito and Negative Gemini at the Rickshaw Theatre, 10/25/19 It was already difficult to categorize…
Hozier cranks up the volume on the UBC campus
Hozier and Madison Ryann Ward at the Thunderbird Sports Centre, 10/18/19 Photo by Mariko Margetson Hozier is truly in…
MARINA closes out tour with birthday show at Orpheum
MARINA and Allie X at the Orpheum, 10/9/19 Welsh pop princess MARINA (formerly Marina & the Diamonds) seemingly s…
Weird Al still reigns supreme as king of all things nerdy
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