Tag: Music Review
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Sean Leon – The Quiet Architect of Toronto’s Creative Renaissance
I remember discovering Sean Leon years ago after coming across his project Narcissus, The Drowning of Ego online. To this day, I can’t remember exactly where I found it. Maybe it was a blog. Maybe it was a random recommendation. Maybe it was buried somewhere in one of those internet rabbit holes that seemed endless…
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Dariel Amant: A Fusion of R&B and Latin Influences
Every once in a while, doom scrolling actually pays off. Most nights it’s the same routine. A few reels, some music clips, sports highlights, random memes, and before you know it, an hour has disappeared. But every now and then, buried somewhere between all the noise, you come across something that makes you stop scrolling.…
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Bas: From Dreamville’s Protégé to Cultural Powerhouse
I first discovered Bas back when J. Cole was starting to put him on the radar. I remember seeing his mixtape Quarter Water Raised Me Vol. 2 floating around online, and it clicked because Cole had just dropped “Cousins” on SoundCloud in 2013 — a track featuring Bas that also doubled as promotion for the…
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Lydia Persuad
Review by Daniel Cantu “A standout artist of the modern age where R&B music of today is paying homage to the past while embracing the future.“ I stumbled upon Lydia Persuad on an afternoon while on a flight coming back from Las Vegas from a friends bachelor party. After a long 4 day weekend of…