Monday Music: Trip-hop, a genre that transcends decades

Trip-hop is a musical genre that blends hip-hop with electronica, often taking influences from jazz, techno, and blues. The vocals are soft and sensual...

Adapted music gives way to Turner Churchill’s musical resilience

Turner Churchill has called Vancouver (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations) home for roughly eight years. During this period, Churchill spent time working at Long...

Monday Music: A Throwback to 2000s Pop-punk

Pop-punk is a subgenre of rock music that combines elements of punk rock and pop, taking the electric energy of punk rock with pop’s...

Studies and songwriting with Coral Pichurski

For many, art brings purpose to life. With classes starting up again, some creative starvation is bound to set in as artists lose the...

Video game soundtracks that capture the soul of a game

Soundtracks can completely shape the experience of playing a video game. Whether that be an intense, drum-heavy score during a fight, or a melancholic...

A taste of Tuareg desert blues

Amidst the downtown chaos of the World Cup, the annual Vancouver International Jazz Festival took place from June 19 to July 5. This year...

Monday Music: An escape into the many lenses of shoegaze

Shoegaze is defined as “melodic rock music typically characterized by heavily processed electric guitar and indistinct, often distant-sounding vocals.” Shoegaze works well because of...

Nico-meets-stereolab: a review of MEMORIALS’ All Clouds Bring Not Rain

Formed by Verity Susman and Matthew Simms, MEMORIALS is an art-pop duo out of Canterbury, England. Their debut record, Memorial Waterslides, won the group...

Angst and the avant-garde: A review of Tanya Tagaq’s Saputjiji

Content warning: description of residential schools. Tanya Tagaq, one of the most critically acclaimed Inuit artists, released her eighth studio album on March 6. Tagaq...

Monday Music: For the upcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year

The start of the year is an important time for most, often marked by reflecting on the past year and making new promises. However,...