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Amaal has been dreaming up a world of her own for some time now. For most of her life, the Somali-Canadian singer was constrained by rigid expectations of womanhood as a result of her conservative upbringing. She grew up in Toronto as the fourth of 10 siblings, after her family fled the civil war in […]

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Calling all Canadian music aficionados — today Apple launched their new Behind the Mac campaign, and it’s a love letter to the Canadian music industry. Through a series of found photos and videos, the commercial features raw and intimate moments of 16 Canadian creatives driving global music culture today. After many celebrities came under fire […]

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These Canadian artists are performing their music at a series of upcoming livestreamed events.

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We caught up the Canadian star ahead of Sunday's ceremony.

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Avril Lavigne is making music again. At least, that’s what they want us to believe. The French-Canadian singer—the same one (allegedly) who emboldened an entire generation of early aught teens to wear skinny ties and crash suburban shopping malls—is releasing her sixth studio album, Head Above Water, this Friday. Her return to the radio comes after a health-imposed […]

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Rock ’n’ roll grew out of rebellion—nonconformity. But society has become more permissive and accepting, and there are fewer and fewer ways to not fit in. Gender is one of the last frontiers. Here are three artists who are blurring the lines of gender and bucking the conventional norms of masculinity, femininity and sexuality. It […]

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Chances are you already know Charlotte Day Wilson’s name, but even if you don’t, you’ll likely recognize her face. For the past couple of months, her photo has been plastered on bus stops, streetcars and billboards across the city as a part of Roots 2018 Sweatstyle campaign. Oh, and if you’ve listened to any Canadian Spotify […]

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Pop quiz! Who won the Juno for Best Album last year? Obviously, you remember, right? Was it The Weeknd? Shawn Mendes? Drake? They are the biggest acts in Canadian music—if not music generally—so it was probably one of them. Only it wasn’t. It was actually Leonard Cohen. You remember that big Leonard Cohen song that […]

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Taylor Swift shared her very first Spotify playlist this week, featuring all her favourite songs at the moment. But the curated list wasn’t limited to mainstream artists: the roundup contains 43 songs all from a variety of music genres, from hip-hop to indie. The playlist — titled “Songs Taylor Loves” — showcases well-known fan favourites […]

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I co-front a Toronto band called July Talk, but as a child, I was cripplingly shy and so good at not taking up space that my father once lost me as I slept curled up in a ball underneath a blanket. I was mistaken for a pillow. I didn’t have the capacity to talk to […]

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The night the news of Leonard Cohen’s death broke, I walked the few blocks from my apartment to join a crowd of Montrealers gathered at his doorstep, a vigil for the man we were all so proud to call one of us. Candles, letters, artworks, photos and faces encircled his home, the indelible mark he […]

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