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Bob Dylan couldn’t have written Ada Lea’s new single
Singer-songwriter Ada Lea needed a break from music: she was physically exhausted from tour, and she was mentally stuck in a circle of overcriticizin…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Fortune Feimster uses standup as therapy
Fortune Feimster’s Netflix comedy special, “Crushing It,” dives into stories from her life, like being her mother’s stand-in husband and going from a…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
How 5 solo artists came together to create the self-produced girl group NADUH
It’s been decades since girl groups ran the music industry, but the Vancouver-based hip-hop R&B group NADUH thinks it’s time for them to have a renai…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
How Mustafa kept his faith through devastating loss
A few years ago, Mustafa released his critically acclaimed EP, “When Smoke Rises,” which chronicled the deaths of loved ones from his community of Re…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Washington Black explores joy as a form of resistance
It’s not easy to adapt a classic of contemporary literature into an epic TV series, but that’s exactly what Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has done with “Washing…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
LU KALA is the next big Canadian pop star
With viral hits like “Pretty Girl Era,” LU KALA has proven that she might just be the next big Canadian breakthrough artist à la Justin Bieber, Carly…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The high stakes of reimagining Anne of Green Gables
Kat Sandler is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and director who’s known for her way with words and her wild imagination. She was j…
8 months ago
Kristin Scott Thomas made a movie inspired by memories of her dads
When Kristin Scott Thomas (Four Weddings and a Funeral, The English Patient) was six years old, her father, a Royal Navy pilot, died in service. Then…
8 months ago
d'bi.young anitafrika on 20 years of The Sankofa Trilogy
d'bi.young anitafrika knows that it takes a lot of nurturing and mentorship to become an artist of any kind. They credit their mom, the pioneering du…
8 months ago
Why Dana Sipos wrote a love song to her friends
Acclaimed Canadian folk singer-songwriter Dana Sipos just dropped a new love song devoted to her friends. It’s called “Soft Feeling” and it’s her fir…
8 months ago