If you look up what is your name? (WIYN?) on Genius the following unreviewed artist bio pops up: “creates a certain vibe that they themselves can’t understand.” It’s submitted by a user named SkyHouse and it pretty much aligns with the picture of WIYN? that I’d pieced together through my lengthy perusal of music forums.…
Agriculture played Toronto on an unusually mild day for early February. Dozens of heavily eyelinered,…
ear, courtesy of Not Dead Yet. Being at the ear show at East End United Church last Wednesday, September 23rd, was like being at Jesus’s Last Supper. Something new was being inaugurated. We were going there to give ear a sacrifice and that sacrifice was self-consciousness: time to forgive our evils through dance. Through mosh.…
I last covered a show for Demo in the dead of winter. It was January (awful) and I was stationed at the Rivoli for Exclaim!’s Class of 2026 (less awful). This time around, I was sweating buckets at St. Stephen-In-The-Fields-Church to cover day two of the second annual Loveless Festival. Hosted by Toronto’s Loveless Collective,…
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August 13, 2025. @smallman.bigmouth on Instagram shared a post announcing their first show in over a year and a half. It was a hazy black and white landscape photo of a country road with a car peeking out of the horizon; white text overtop reads “it is happening again,” with show details in a smaller…
Keep readingIn the past few years, I’ve been noticing a rising trend on social media centering on reviving the Riot Grrrl subculture. Examples of this range from the prevalence of viral audios which span new Riot Grrl releases such as “Wet” by Dazey and the Scouts to classics like “Deceptacon” by Le Tigre. Do teenage girls…
Keep readingHave you ever wondered what a vampire might listen to while driving down the highway after experiencing a heartbreak? Well, this is the article for you. Vampires and their narratives not only meet the theme of red through blood, but also through revenge, passion, monstrosity, anger, love, lust, desire, self hatred, and self-empowerment. To emphasize…
On September 28th, Oakwood, Holidays in the United States, Underwater Basket Weaving, and Lamzy Divy performed at The Great Hall. Shot by Ellen Ma. Ellen Ma – Instagram Lamzy Divy UNDERWATER Basket Weaving HOLIDAYS IN THE UNITED STATES OAKWOOD CRowd
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