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Dec 21, 2021 · Listen to Paste ’s Best New Artists of 2021 playlist on Spotify here. Amber Mark. Almost four years after the release of her second EP Conexão, New York-based singer, songwriter and...
Elsewhere, we saw hip-hop and drill music continue to dominate our charts, as female country artists continued to be major creative forces and dance-pop continued to thrive. And where viral moments once made for unexpected hits, in 2021 we saw them revitalize older songs from the likes of Kali Uchis and Italian rock revivalists (not to mention ...
Jun 23, 2021 · Our favorite new artists of 2021 (so far) include Jay Som and Palehound together as Bachelor, the queer pop celebrations of girl in red, Olivia Rodrigo, the warped rap duo Paris Texas and more.1.
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Mustafa's debut,When Smoke Rises, is a singular album that explores the nuances and tragedy of life in the hood in an entirely new context, and an album that CBC Music named the best of the year. Early singles released in 2020 were signs of a promising new artist, and when Mustafa dropped the entire project in May, accolades spilled in from the lik...
YouTube cover artist turned pop star Alex Porat didn't have one standout moment this year as much as she had a steady string of undeniable hits. Having only turned to original music in the past few years, Porat has proven herself as one of the country's best rising pop songwriters, turning everything from breakups to hook-ups into infectious earwor...
Savannah Ré released her debut album, Opia, at the tail end of 2020, and finally got to perform those songs live 11 months later in September 2021. She was invited to headline the All-Axis Festival, a night of live music to celebrate the reopening of the Toronto venue Axis, formerly known as the Mod Club. In the same month, she was a co-headliner a...
Songwriters don't always come out from behind the scenes, and Yonatan Ayal and Pierre-Luc Rioux were doing pretty well for themselves in the background after moving from Montreal to Los Angeles in 2015, writing for Katy Perry, Chloe x Halle, Céline Dion and more. But their best project was yet to come after they started making music under the monik...
At the tail end of 2020, Canada crowned its first drag superstar. Toronto's Priyanka, the winner of the inaugural season of Canada's Drag Race (an expansion of the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise), is now nearing the end of her reign as the second season of the hit Crave series returns, but her year in the spotlight hasn't been wasted. Not only has sh...
In 2019, Jessia hit rock bottom. Fresh out of university, the pop artist who grew up in Vancouver says she lost her creative direction and was second-guessing a career in music. Thankfully she didn't quit, though. At the beginning of 2021, Jessia took to TikTok with an unfinished snippet of a song she was working on. "I don't know if this is total ...
Boyfrn moved to downtown Toronto 10 years ago with a penchant for writing poems that soon turned into an interest in writing rap lyrics. He caught the music bug and spent the next decade experimenting and flexing his musical skills, and what he landed on is a genre-melding mix between hip hop, pop, R&B, lo-fi and a little calypso groove from his Ca...
When Brittany Kennell moved back to Montreal three years ago from her long stint in Nashville, she almost gave up on music. She started a job outside of the industry and was picking up the pieces of a failed engagement. But as she began to discover Montreal's burgeoning country music scene, she was inspired to start writing again. The result was I ...
On Oct. 20, Montreal's Bruce Liu, 24, went from being a locally admired classical pianist to the next big thing on the international scene when the 18th Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition announced him as its first-prize laureate. A dark horse, Liu advanced through the competition's four solo stages to reach the final, along with 11 others, in which...
While Yu Su may have been a staple within the Vancouver underground scene, 2021 was likely when most of us were first properly introduced to the Chinese-Canadian artist. Yellow River Blue, her debut album, is a perfect marriage of ambient dub, house and pop with traditional Chinese elements and instrumentation. Critically, it earned praise from Pit...
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Dec 31, 2021 · Our list of 2021's 50 best songs includes Taylor Swift, Lil Nas X, Adele, Little Simz, Tyler, the Creator, Jon Batiste and Doja Cat.
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Dec 6, 2021 · Best Songs 2021, Year in Review. From Wizkid's global-pop sunshine to Taylor's 10-minute masterpiece and much more, here are the 50 Best Songs of 2021.
