On Nov. 27, Emily Murphy and Lukas Switlicki’s workshop “Community resource sharing in the DIY Rave Scene” invites event organizers in Toronto’s underground rave community to put their heads-together on a digital resource-sharing platform as part of Together Apart’s conference programming.

Across four EPs, a video game soundtrack, an album, and the beginnings of a beat tape series, the Jane and Finch producer revels in creative reversal

Arriving seven years after the band’s self-titled full-length debut, Absolutely Free’s Aftertouch marks a shift in focus and process for the band. Named after the synthesizer function that produces an effect once a performer depresses a key after touching it, the album addresses topics like the alienation of contemporary living through the lens of a fleeting cultural relationship to physical connection and a pronounced digital immersion.

Ahead of the band’s September 24 performance as part of Together Apart, we put together a timeline of LAL’s 25 years and spoke with producer-instrumentalist Nicholas Murray to help us fill in the gaps.

Status/Non-Status (formerly WHOOP-Szo) music has frequently explored Sturgeon’s complicated relationship to his Indigenous identity and the effects of Canada’s ongoing settler-colonial project, often through the experiences of those in his family; adopting the name Status/Non-Status ahead of the release of new EP 1, 2, 3, 4, 500 Years this past May, he now centres the project as a circumstance of his grandfather’s decision to enfranchise in order to support his family by joining the Canadian Armed Forces and become a Canadian citizen, the government’s term for the legal process of surrendering one’s and one’s family’s legal claim to Indigenous status under the Indian Act.

After the pandemic shut down in-person interaction, Toronto creative agency Somewherelse created HUH, a new platform that lets audiences explore art all over the world, filtered by city and mood.