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Homegrown Labels

Género [ˈxe̞.ne.ɾo̞] – Genre, gender, to generate, and textile. The multiplicity of meanings behind the Spanish namesake of the record label run by Soledad Muñoz,…

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Young Braised

For a rapper based out of the rainy Pacific Northwest, it’s fitting that Young Braised’s Northern Reflections furthers his exploration of cloud-rap based sounds. Featuring…

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“It’s exciting being on the ground floor of something. I put out White Lung’s first record when they were playing in basements of East Vancouver,…

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Vancouver's Waste-Makers

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in mid-April, I arrived at the Strathcona store-front apartment of Mark Richardson, one of the main Music Waste festival organizers,…

Real Live Action

Gal Gracen

When Space Bros, one of Tom Whalen’s numerous projects, took the stage at They Live Video on April 11, no one seemed to know what…