Vancouver’s Fortune Sound Club has a knack for attracting the greatest in up and coming artists, from the coldest rappers to fast-emerging DJs all over the continent. To those of you reading this, wherever you are, you all know that spot in your city that has that reliability. Despite Vancouver’s broiling music culture, rap is one genre in the city [...]

By the time I got to the Vogue Theatre, the opening act — Superhumanoids — had just finished their first song and I was incredibly tired. I knew nothing of Cold War Kids, let alone Superhumanoids, and it was also my first time photographing a show at the Vogue. I got a metallic square sticker—my press pass. This is a [...]

      The cliché that “loves hurts us all,” is a cliché for a reason. We all have dealt or will deal with the bruises and scars of love. Some of us are fortunate to be loved and share our love, and we may become known as hopeless romantics—as if being such a type is a bad thing. The [...]

Lights on, stage set, curtains up. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you with the ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ of beats, the Les Mis of loops, the Romeo and Juliet of rhymes. I present you with GLDMSK’s very own hip-hop opera. Hip-hop opera? That’s right. ‘Roger Sterling (A Time Traveling Paratext)’ is a nearly-eight-minute epic of ever-changing flavors, flows, and soundscapes. If you’re [...]

Fashionably late. I gotta laugh. This is quite possibly the most appropriately titled EP of the year. The latest installment from Bostonian rapper GiO Dee (formerly Bigg Dee) comes courtesy of a ten track EP, Fashionably Late, that is maybe a little too true to its name.  The EP cranks out poppy 808-and-toy-snare bangers like it’s nobody’s business, while Dee [...]