By Melissa Brassard
From Chippy Nonstop to cinematic unions and cyber-goth grooves, the Ottawa multi-arts festival goes all in on the unexpected.
There isn’t enough goth-led music nowadays, so when an absolute heater of darkness comes out of nowhere, it’s time to bend the knee and kiss the ring. Combining a web of industrial chaos and a palette of screechy death rock sermons, Dermabrasion is a duo from Toronto who knew their self-assigned mission well; create a thematic, noisy candelabra of a concept album that draws from the bizarro world of the macabre. Dig out the all-black outfit I know you own, slap on some thick eye shadow and mascara, throw on Pain Behaviour, and go haunt some graveyards.
By Melissa Brassard
From Chippy Nonstop to cinematic unions and cyber-goth grooves, the Ottawa multi-arts festival goes all in on the unexpected.
By Ben Boddez
The singer and cellist’s latest single blends dream pop textures with meditations on listening in a noisy world.
By Johnny Papan
From leather-bound poultry to intergalactic dance parties, BC’s biggest electronic festival delivered a new level of strange this year.