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Features, Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf: Imagining a New Future with Janelle Monáe and Octavia Butler
This piece is part of Off the Shelf, a column where I give a book recommendation inspired by one of my favorite albums. ...
By Colleen Cowie | November 22, 2019
Features
Music and You (and Everyone Else)
Why do you like the music you like? It’s a hard question to answer, and it’s only getting harder as a...
By Willie McDonagh | November 15, 2019
Features, Found Music Review
The Halloween Found Music Review
This Halloween, pay attention to the origin of those frightening sounds around you. Do they come from humans, ani...
By Willie McDonagh | October 31, 2019
Features, Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf: Roxane Gay, Mitski, and the Invisible Weight
This piece is part of Off the Shelf, a column where I recommend a book based on an album that I love. Throughout my life...
By Colleen Cowie | October 05, 2019
Features, Found Music Review
The Found Music Review for September 2019
A super-supercentenarian, a family band, and a post-Soviet McDonald’s—here’s the latest in musi...
By Willie McDonagh | September 27, 2019
Features, Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf: Tackling the Beast with Kamasi Washington’s “The Epic” and John Steinbeck’s “East of Eden”
This piece is part of Off the Shelf, a column where I recommend a book based on an album that I love. Throughout my life...
By Colleen Cowie | September 03, 2019
Features, Found Music Review
The Found Music Review for August 2019
Accidental uploads, archival curiosities, forgotten catalogue items, and more. It’s a new series dedicated ...
By Willie McDonagh | August 29, 2019
Features, Off the Shelf
Off the Shelf: Finding Common Ground in Stella Donnelly’s “Beware of the Dogs” and Ali Smith’s “Autumn”
Summer, for me, has always been an opportunity to lose myself in the world of books: whether it’s required summer ...
By Colleen Cowie | August 17, 2019
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Music for the Home: A New Guide to Audiodecorating
You’ve just bought a new house and set up all your tables and chairs. The walls are covered in pictures of ...
By Willie McDonagh | August 02, 2019
Features, Yisel's Top Five
YISEL’S TOP FIVE FROM: 1986
1986 is here and it is full of innovative unique bands. Dive into the next installment of Yisel’s Top Five: 1. &ld...
By Yisel Meza | July 14, 2019
Features, Yisel's Top Five
YISEL’S TOP FIVE FROM: 1985
1985 was a hard year to choose from, songs from Tears for Fears, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Simple Minds and others who d...
By Yisel Meza | July 02, 2019
Features, Playlist
Celebrate Canada Day with RPM’s Ultimate Canadian Playlist
Well folks, it’s July 1st, which means it’s CANADA DAY! And it turns out that the country that gave us Jim C...