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Four Artists To Watch For In 2024

Four Artists To Watch For In 2024

Whether you are ready or not, we are officially in 2024. It’s okay if you’ve already abandoned your overambitious resolutions for more plausible goals — or if you’ve just given up entirely. There’s always next year. But if there’s one constant, it’s listening to music. If Spotify Wrapped taught me anything, it’s that I really […]

Lydia Ainsworth Is Dance-Pop’s Reigning Queen of Darkness

Lydia Ainsworth Is Dance-Pop’s Reigning Queen of Darkness

If you’re not already part of the dark, dreamy electro-pop cult of Lydia Ainsworth, let this be your initiation. Today (May 21), the Canadian singer-songwriter, composer, and producer shares her fourth album,Sparkles & Debris, and it’s just as dazzling and dystopian as its name suggests. Ainsworth crafted the album across several cities and many years, […]

Dorothea Paas Writes Dreamy, Devastating Love Songs About Not Being in Love

Dorothea Paas Writes Dreamy, Devastating Love Songs About Not Being in Love

Love has a long half-life. That’s one of the major takeaways from Canadian singer-songwriter Dorothea Paas’s debut album, Anything Can’t Happen, out today (May 7) via Telephone Explosion. The record — crafted between 2016 and 2019 — finds the Toronto native spinning love and longing into gorgeous, ruminative guitar pop that will take your breath […]