The accordionist believed for years that exhaustion was simply part of musicianship. Late-night polka gigs. Weddings where drunk uncles demanded encores. Endless driving across Ontario with coffee as both fuel […]

When JT finally arrived, the atmosphere shifted immediately from low-budget art experiment to federal dream sequence. Assistants materialized carrying coconut-milk lattes and dense clipboards. JT entered wearing a winter coat […]

Sabrina visited Nordic, her old teacher, on a rainy afternoon in October, driving two hours through grey farmland while rehearsing memories instead of scales. In her mind Nordic still existed […]

By the time they reached Vancouver, merch tables could suddenly outperform years of carefully engineered artistic labor. Then came the idea for the video. Not a normal music video. Neither […]

A month later, Clara and Marcello found themselves sharing a bill in Thunder Bay at a venue shaped psychologically like a bowling alley The green room contained a framed photograph […]

At first he thought the drinking just enlarged existing traits. His partner had always been suspicious of institutions, drawn toward grand theories about power and hypocrisy. In the early years […]

She lived as though someone always was grading her. Somewhere behind every chord she played there seemed to be an invisible examiner with folded arms and impossible standards. If she […]

He lied recreationally. Like a jazz musician adding extra notes because silence made him itchy. He claimed he almost joined Frank Zappa’s band but “the astrology looked hostile.” He informed […]

He moved through life like a man perpetually arriving at the scene of a crime committed by others, forever explaining that his disappointments had been engineered by his ex-wife, directors, […]

She remembered everything except the songs. Never the chords. But the words, the things audiences came to hear, suddenly vanished mid-performance as if someone quietly removed pages from a script. […]