READERS’ CHOICE PART 1 2023
From Vancouver to Belgium, contributors Joni Miller and Jan Vochten share a range of songs and artists you know and have never heard. Listen in!
DAVID BYRNE’S 2023 XMAS PLAYLIST
A wonderfully listenable set of atypical songs that tell a more nuanced seasonal story
‘TIS THE SEASON
Three Christmas music discs featuring solo acoustic guitar, soulful sounds from Stax and a jazzy take on the Nutcracker Suite
RISE UP AND SING!
A primer for teenagers on the how and who behind world-changing music
NATALIA LAFOURCADE’s DE TODAS LAS FLORES
Renowned Mexican musician says her latest album is “my salvation, my relief, the replanting of seeds”
JEREMY DUTCHER’S MOTEWOLONUWOK
Second album features beautiful music in service of indigenous language and struggle – and a few songs in English
musica intima
Renowned Vancouver vocal ensemble wins a Western Canadian Music Award for indigenous-inspired Nagamo
DEBBY FRIDAY WINS THE 2023 POLARIS PRIZE
Good Luck is a fierce and genre-defying amalgam of electropunk, noise, synth, industrial techno and hip-hop
