Articles by Adam Feibel

​With Their Latest Juno Nomination, the Dirty Nil Are the Underdogs of Canadian Rock

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020

The Dirty Nil are a rock band.   Normally that would be a boring and obvious observation, but it's a descriptor the band have been chasing...

A Radical Act: Canadian Musicians in Conversation About Being Sober in an Industry Built on Booze

PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2020

In the life of a musician, it's lamentably easy to fall into substance abuse.   It's a career that comes with a highly social lifestyle. Mu...

Worriers

You or Someone You Know

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2020

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Lauren Denitzio doesn't know what to feel. The singer-songwriter's punk band Worriers makes an...

Hot Mulligan

You'll Be Fine

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2020

In the last couple of years, Hot Mulligan have emerged as one of those bands for people in certain alt-rock circles to keep an eye on. The...

Ratboys

Printer's Devil

PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2020

For the first time in their lives as a band, singer-songwriter Julia Steiner and multi-instrumentalist Dave Sagan have some stability. The...

Empty Country

Empty Country

PUBLISHED Feb 11, 2020

Over the course of ten years, New York-based band Cymbals Eat Guitars evolved from a Wrens-worshipping group into a crowd-rousing rock band...

Spanish Love Songs

Brave Faces Everyone

PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2020

Los Angeles punk band Spanish Love Songs started making a bit of a stir in 2018 with their second album, Schmaltz, a viscerally candid reco...

Poppy

I Disagree

PUBLISHED Jan 8, 2020

You could spend hours going down the rabbit hole of weird lore behind the enigmatic internet celebrity called Poppy. She is part singer, pa...