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  Phil Elverum's 20 Best Songs Ranked, from Mount Eerie to the Microphones

  PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2024

  Phil Elverum has come full circle. In the '90s, he became fixated on making DIY recordings, writing songs mostly as a way to have something...

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  Peach Pit Rank Their 5 Best Songs

  PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2024

  Peach Pit have found their groove. Since making a big splash with the wry, wobbly indie pop of their debut, 2018's 'Being So Normal,' the...

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  The 20 Best Canadian Albums of the 2020s So Far

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2024

  Starting in the aughts and continuing into the 2010s, Canada was known for its indie rock boom. Now, as we arrive at the halfway point of...

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  Japandroids Rank Their 5 Best Songs

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2024

  Japandroids were never supposed to make it out of the aughts. Having formed in 2006, the garage duo of singer-guitarist Brian King and...

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  ANOHNI Absorbs the Grief of a Planet in Crisis: "We're Porous Creatures"

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2024

  "This life, this tour that I'm doing, is radically unsustainable," ANOHNI tells me over Zoom from her hotel in Toronto, where she's just...

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  Maritime MCs Rap for a Better Future: "It's Really Special to See East Coast Hip-Hop Move Like This"

  PUBLISHED Oct 16, 2024

  Even as Gilbert Sewell lay on his deathbed, he still found ways to inspire his grandson, Tristan Grant. Grant, who raps under the alias Wolf...

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  Rich Aucoin Hangs Up the Parachute: "We've All Been Jumping Around — We Deserve a Sit"

  PUBLISHED Oct 15, 2024

  Rich Aucoin is packing up his parachute for the last time. After more than 15 years, his current New Nostalgia: Penultimate Tour marks the...

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  Hot-Take Reactions to Charli XCX's 'BRAT' Remix Album: Caroline Polachek Is Romantic, but the 1975 Are a Knife

  PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2024

  The modern album rollout can feel like a clinical exercise in algorithmic optimization: artists waterfall four or five singles until the...