A musician known for her versatility towing the line between jagged simplicity and high camp, rocked out indulgence in Ice Cream, ripping blazing guitar leads in Darlene Shrugg, and the occasional U.S. Girls appearance, Carlyn Bezic is a musical polymath, and all of those skills are put to use in Jane Inc.

In the video for her new single “Qwyn” (premiering tonight on Long Winter TV), Kyla Charter thrusts past into present, stitching together clips of home videos recorded by her late grandfather.

B Wijshijer has been living two lives. In one life, they’re B Wijshijer, post-internet artist. The other life is lived in computers, where they go by the performance art alias shrimpychip, stepping up to viral internet challenges, filtering selfies, and building their brand with react videos.

On Nov. 26, Ciel facilitates a two-hour beginner’s Ableton workshop at InterAccess, where registrants will learn how to build a drum rack from scratch. Photo by @keyistudio

Dishing out signal Wednesday through Sunday from Stackt Market’s shipping container fortress at Bathurst and Front Street, the online community radio station has become a hub for crosspollination amongst the city’s fragmented dance music scenes and a lifeline for locals listening out for quality electronic music programming.

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.