It began with an email. Director Mike Mills (Beginners, 20th Century Women), ever the audiophile, slipped into Matt Berninger of The National’s inbox insisting they make a video together. Having wrapped up all the visual assets from the band’s 2017 offering, Sleep Well Beast, Berninger threw a bunch of unreleased songs back at Mills, planting […]

It’s 7am in Taiwan — a very un-rock-and-roll hour unless you’ve been up all night — but the three members of Taiwanese indie rock band Sorry Youth are wide awake, ready to talk about their upcoming visit to Canada.  The band’s drummer Afredred is fluent in English and leads the interview, consulting with his bandmates […]

Perched at a table in a bustling 24-hour bistro, Nite Sun is unassuming at first glance, scrolling through their phone. But, half a grilled chicken panini later, the non-binary Cree-queer-Métis emcee is reminiscing about the first rap they wrote at age 12. “Do you wanna hear it?” asks Nite Sun, traditionally known by their Cree […]

When Selci first started writing music she was living in Winnipeg studying classical music, but her songwriting didn’t seem to jive with her program. After taking an experimental ensemble class, surrounded by synthesizers and found music objects, she began to discover a whole new language for her music, pairing the electronic and synthesized loops of […]