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Stefan Macleod

Arts & Culture

Colin Spratt’s ‘Plastic Soul Studios’

By Stefan Macleod

Photos by Ameer Alba Formerly a McGill student specializing in art history, Colin Spratt dropped out in May 2016 to…

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Protest Music Isn’t Making a Comeback: It Never Left In the First Place

By Stefan Macleod

Think of the different reasons there are to get excited about new music. A beloved artist could be returning from…

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Arts, Arts & Culture

Setting the Moshing Mood

By Stefan Macleod

Each concert has its own standards for audience behaviour. If you go to a Death Grips show, you just have to…

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Albums of 2016: The Year in Review

By Stefan Macleod

2016 may be remembered as the year that a number of great artists passed away, but it was not without some…

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Music in Context

By Stefan Macleod

What standards do we expect from music journalism today? Professionals who devote their careers to the discussion of music have…

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Alexia Avina and the Magic of Quiet Concerts

By Stefan Macleod

It’s always exciting when there’s a noticeable difference between what you hear on a musical recording and what you experience…

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Arts

Crying in the Club with Venus

By Stefan Macleod

The Bull and Bear was lucky to sit in on the rehearsal session of Venus, a Montreal-based Dance/Pop outfit (self-styled…

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Arts

22, A Million – Album Review

By Stefan Macleod

Bon Iver started off as Justin Vernon’s trip to an isolated Vermont cabin in 2006, where he recorded a series…

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A Moon Shaped Pool – Album Review

By Stefan Macleod

  High expectations can sabotage your enjoyment of a perfectly good album. Radiohead’s 2011 album The King of Limbs (TKOL)…

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Review – The Life of Pablo

By Stefan Macleod

By Stefan Macleod Kanye West — The Life of Pablo (Def Jam/G.O.O.D. Music) Leading up to the release of his…

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