May 2023
Braids
Braids, composed of Raphaelle Standell-Preston, Austin Tufts and Taylor Smith, are a Montreal-based three-piece. Formed in 2007 in Alberta, they have solidified a decade-long reputation for their musical ingenuity and established themselves as one of Canada’s most acclaimed art rock bands, garnering two Polaris Prize shortlists and winning the 2016 Juno for Alternative Album of the Year. With Standell-Preston’s vocals as the pillar of their sound, Braids weave organic and electronic elements together amidst a lyrical landscape that is intimate,…
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Small Million & BABERS
The Portland-based indie pop outfit Small Million flows from the collaboration of longtime creative partners Ryan Linder and Malachi Graham, who weld deeply affecting sonic production to smart lyrics about intuition and inhibition, losing control and ending up in unexpected places, bodies hurt and bodies joyful. The effect is both intimate and epic, delicate and fierce, drawing comparisons to The Cranberries and Florence + the Machine. While Linder and Graham have been writing as a duo for a decade, with…
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