Louise Burns uses full band to get new sounds on Young Mopes

Vancouver’s Louise Burns says that once she started writing material for what would become her most recent album, she couldn’t stop. The end result is Young Mopes, which came out in February and landed itself on the Polaris Prize long list earlier this year. But Burns admits now that even though it was easy to […]

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Open Space: Don’t let paranoia ruin Halloween

Remember Halloween? It was that holiday that every kid looked forward to because they wanted candy; it was the holiday that every parent looked forward to because dressing your kid up and taking them trick-or-treating was fun. So when did we as a society become so paranoid and lazy? I live in a historically busy […]

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