I write about the arts and soft cultural phenomena for various publications with a focus on DIY culture, kitsch, and the line between underground culture and mainstream consumption. Most of my current writing is on Patreon.
Selections
**If you want any Chart Attack piece contact me, the site is gone. I'll try to put up some pdfs eventually.
NOW: Review: Lana Del Rey stares deep into the soul of America on Norman Fucking Rockwell
NOW: Why musicians need better access to mental health services
NOW: The Mountain Goats brought softness to Toronto during an ice storm
NOW: Lana Del Rey was understated yet confident at the Air Canada Centre
NOW: Petra Glynt recounts her harrowing 51 hours in immigrant detention in the UK
Broken Pencil: Podcast Activist Katie Jensen: I Am Woman, Hear Me .RAR (cover story)
VICE: Meet the Guerrilla Lifeguard Watching Over Toronto’s Late Night Pool Hops
**Chart Attack: What it’s like to attend a music festival during a mental breakdown
Musicworks: crys cole amplifies personal space (cover story)
Broken Pencil: National Resonance: How Drone Took Over Canada’s Underground (cover story)
THUMP: Jessy Lanza's Music Makes Life's Smallest Irritations Feel Meaningful
FADER: Michael DeForge’s Big Kids Comic Is A Transcendental Heartbreaker
Canadian Art: New Film Is Next-Gen, Next-Level John Waters
VICE: What It Was Like Growing Up in a City 'Colder Than Mars'
Musicworks: Tenzier: History Outside the Margins
**Chart Attack: What’s happening in Ottawa?
Broken Pencil: The Smell of Our Own: Rea McNamara
**Chart Attack: Was 2015 the year activism trended in Canadian music?
**Chart Attack: Lana Del Rey’s Honeymoon and the rise of the female gaze
Noisey: These Guys Have Been Playing Nothing but the Smiths at their DJ Nights for 28 Months Straight
**Chart Attack: Grimes’ Art Angels at the end of the underground
Brooklyn Vegan: '80s no wave child star Chandra is back, touring with her new friends Bile Sister
National Post: What Taylor Swift tells us about millennials
VICE: What Does It Say About Me That I Prefer Dog Halloween Parties to Ones Involving Humans?
National Post: Jem and the Holograms review: Neither glamour nor glitter
AUX: 6 awesome women in the Winnipeg experimental music scene
**Chart Attack: Probing the grey areas of Canadian identity in rural Quebec
Munchies: How Four Party Planners Brought Berlin's Döner Kebab to Toronto
VICE: The Rise of Canada's Art-World Class Clowns
**Chart Attack: We used this antique LiveJournal questionnaire to prove Warped Tour is still relevant
VICE: A World-Famous Shock Cartoonist Is Publishing the Ultimate Life Guide... for Tweens
National Post: Being seen is the message
VICE: Seripop’s Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau on Garbage, Grants, and Life After AIDS Wolf
National Post: An iconic industrial building brings to Luminato a music festival like no other
VICE: I Spent 12 Hours Listening to Drone on National Drone Day and Now I'm Mostly A Cloud
Weird Canada: How to Communicate With Media About Your Music
Ballast: What to Expect When Trying to Live Your Life in the Woods
(ebook: Northern Conversations: The Best of Ballast)
Electronic Beats: The Beast Within: an interview with Asian Women on the Telephone
Ballast: Two People Discuss the Creative Power of Spreadsheets
Stylus: .RU: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR.
**If you want any Chart Attack piece contact me, the site is gone. I'll put up pdfs eventually.