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Spotify Playlist: Montreal @montreal @braidsmusic @jellybarbs @milagresband @thehorrors @itstherapture @bryanferry

I just spent the past four days and five nights in Montreal covering the 14th annual M for Montreal Festival. And while walking and taking public transpiration from the gorgeous Hotel Monvillein Downtown Montreal to the various networking events, happy hours and showcases I listened to a bit of music — some things a bit more obsessively than others. Check out this mostly Montreal-inspired…

New Video: Jonah Mutono's Song for the Lonely @jonahmutono @shorefire @truepanther @EQTMGMT

Starting his music career under a deliberate and intentional cloak of mystery as Kidepo, the Ugandan-born singer/songwriter Jonah Mutonofinally steps out into the spotlight by releasing material under his own name. Mutono’s debut single “Shoulders,” is an achingly intimate pop song that’s one part diary entry of the painfully…

New Audio: London's White Lies Returns with a Rousingly Anthemic Single from Their Forthcoming New Album @whiteliesmusic @piasrecordings @sallyhedberg

Five, the acclaimed London-based indie trio White Lies’s forthcoming, fifth full-length album is slated for a February 1, 2019 release through [PIAS] Recordings, and the album marks the band’s tenth anniversary while finding them pushing their sound and aesthetic in new and adventurous directions, paired with deeply personal and…

“And that is compounded with the fact that as a transfeminine person of color, I’m not granted a lot of agency, in terms of what I can do as an artist. I find that that space is mostly reserved for white people to begin with. You have to stay in your lane. You are expected to pander to the cis white gaze, and what it expects a transfeminine black individual to do. You can’t represent something universal. You must stay in your exotic lane and often draw upon tropes of primitivism so that they can fetishize you.” -Jef Ellise Barbara

Jef Barbara: A Perfect Day (Rexy cover)

Rad Rexy cover from Jeff Barabara out on Fixture Records 4, CD compilation of 16 unreleased recordings by Alex Zhang Hungtai, Brave Radar, bØb, CE Schneider Topical, Chevalier Avant Garde,Couleur Dessin, Cresting, Each Other, Freelove Fenner, Jef Barbara, Lantern,Mavo, Night Sides, Phern, Sheer Agony, and an overlooked album track by Moss Lime.