Secretly, I like to think that Fiona Apple and I are kind of alike. So goes the parasocial relationship, I know. And I’m not even that obsessive of a fan. I know a good bit (but not all) of her public history, I’ve watched and read a few interviews, and I hold some of her…
Demo Magazine’s Back To School show in collaboration with the Hart House Student Music Committee…
It’s the evening of January 17th, and I arrive at History when doors are set to open. I am at the back of an almost neverending line which spans as far as I can see, and then goes even further around the corner. To my left, banks of snow are adorned with littered cans of…
This piece represents half of a co-byline of Exclaim! Magazine’s Class of 2026 Night 5, featuring Monstrosa, Wiener Kebab, Connie and Dear Evangeline. This article will be amended with the second half of the co-byline in near future. To see Ronan Mitchell’s photos of the whole lineup, view our photo gallery here! POV: It’s -22…
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Photos by Olivia Dans – Portfolio – Instagram Bright and brilliant, Toronto-based songwriter Lia Pappas-Kemps writes her music with an inviting sense of urgency, catching fleeting thoughts and emotions in real time. Building up to the spring release of her first album, Winged, she finds herself caught between reflection and momentum. Pappas-Kemps holds onto the…
Keep readingLatin American music is dangerously underrepresented in the media…unless Bad Bunny drops an album. As such, people in Canada do not know enough about how this area of music has helped shape jazz since the 1940s and was in dialogue with Motown and Columbia Records in the 1970s. These interactions in particular happened under the…
Keep readingHave you ever wondered what a vampire might listen to while driving down the highway after experiencing a heartbreak? Well, this is the article for you. Vampires and their narratives not only meet the theme of red through blood, but also through revenge, passion, monstrosity, anger, love, lust, desire, self hatred, and self-empowerment. To emphasize…
On January 20th 2026, artists kurtains and glaive performed at the Danforth Music Hall. Rose Kinoshita – Portfolio – Instagram kurtains glaive
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