The Beaches Will Get You Through Your Breakup
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Valley
Peaks & Progress
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HARDY
Country Roots to Rock’n Roll
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Lucky Daye
Channels His Emotional Algorithm
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The Beaches Will Get You Through Your Breakup
Aside from being the year of the Barbie, it seems that 2023 has been the year of reckoning and recovery from what we’ve now collectively decided to coin as a “canon event”. Supposedly, a pivotal point in a person’s life that inevitably shifts the path and can inherently change who you are; regrettable past experiences […]
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BIA Knows the Business
Process,” BIA affirmably tells me, is the one thing she will never take for granted. In an era where the music industry frequently prioritizes conformity and manufactured personas, BIA emerges as a beacon of realness and unfiltered creativity. Her ascent has been marked not by the subtle art of blending in, but by the courageous […]
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Lil Tjay Is Blessed and Blessed and Blessed
It brought back the spirit of fun in making music,” Lil Tjay earnestly admits, connecting with me following the release of his long-awaited third studio album, 222. For Tjay, 222 is a milestone, showcasing his growth as an artist and his commitment to carefully curating a collection of melodic rap energetically charged with an emotional […]
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Punchy, Poignant, and Pink: The Bubblegum Pop Artistry of Peach PRC
It’s just tacky, and I love it,” Peach PRC says. “It’s maximalist. Sometimes people put me in a hyper-pop category. I call it bubblegum pop because it’s so sickly sweet [and] everything is thrown at the wall.” The Australian pop artist—and ethereal fairy princess from our sweetest dreams—and I connect on a couch at Universal […]
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Niall Horan: A Timeless Showman
There’s no one here to be a flash in the pan,” Niall Horan affirms, despite all signs of his career pointing to longevity and impact. This was a surprising declaration for a successful artist who has captured the hearts and ears of millions worldwide, and as our well-spent virtual time together unfolded, it became obvious […]
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Lewis Capaldi: Finding Identity in the Spotlight and Taking the Piss Along the Way
When Lewis Capaldi is at his lowest, he begins to unravel who he really is. Faced with the all too human dilemma of crafting an identity to present to the world—a tricky, fickle thing, by nature—, searching the corners of our lives for answers, Lewis tells me he has had a difficult back and forth […]
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Masego: the Man, the Myth, and the Young Miyazaki
As a kid, I related to the way anime protagonists behave. They just want to eat food, fight and test their strength,” Masego tells me, sinking deep into a luxurious black leather couch in the dressing room of the History venue in Toronto. In less than 2 hours, he is bound to meet a sold-out […]
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Reneé Rapp Is Stepping Into Her Authentic Self
I felt that self-awareness was a bad thing. I now know that it’s not. I just always thought it was an annoying quality,” Reneé Rapp tells me through Zoom, speaking to the pain many of us have experienced when fighting with who we are and who we want to be. The 23-year-old actor, musician, and […]
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Shania Twain Is The Queen of Rising Up
Transcending tragedies and transforming them into triumphs is something Shania Twain is no stranger to, embracing each feat like a familiar friend. With open arms she accepts the absurdity of life—a remarkable performance of good faith—knowing she can call upon her resilience and inner strength that we’ve seen her deploy time and time again. It […]
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Leila Dey Shares Big Sister Advice You Didn’t Know You Needed
Perfection is a like villain, rising R&B artist Leila Dey assures me, despite our picturesque setting. Sunlight beams through the windows of a studio in Toronto’s West End as she dons a body-hugging AVAVAV green midi dress with cheeky cut-outs and adjusts a fuzzy vintage Prada bucket hat on her head. “I’m still working on […]
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