https://www.apkoole.com/blog daily 0.75 2024-07-09 https://www.apkoole.com/blog/alberta-its-time monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1605310955784-31D4DPWXB2JSF0DDIJP1/NWUVQ4CHRUI6VENLZZBZVJOHYE.jpg blog - Alberta, it’s time for a sales tax. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1605311157138-I4RU7HRN6B89Z72Y2TSE/cs_cs20040615ac1484.jpg blog - Alberta, it’s time for a sales tax. - I think part of the problem we’re in is the result of buying into the fantasy the Progressive Conservatives sold us. Even their name reveals the contradiction we believed was possible for all those years. They wanted us to think of them as progressive because of the world-class social service sector they created, but they also wanted to identify as conservative by keeping our taxes low. Oil royalties allowed them to construct this illusion, but now that we can’t rely on that revenue, we feel forced to choose. https://www.apkoole.com/blog/review-dirty-projectors-5eps monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1606679141702-SDY4LHL03BEOWZA5XG9E/tenor.gif blog - Dirty Projector’s ‘5EPs’ https://www.apkoole.com/blog/2020s-best-canadian-songwriters monthly 0.5 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1607125058932-H3DQW4JD20IGIO078M5D/ellis_born_again.jpg blog - 2020’s 10 Best Canadian Songwriters - Every now and then, someone comes along to remind us all that, yes, some people are born talented. This year’s reminder was Linnea Siggelkow, who released her album Born Again under the name Ellis. Siggelkow seems to innately know how to put a song together. Get a load of this line, from the title track: “I was puking in the bathroom; I was trying to be pretty.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1607129250969-IIUXLMCJHJR93STFTAOI/aidan.jpg blog - 2020’s 10 Best Canadian Songwriters - You know you’re good at something when you can disappear for half a decade and still hold on to your fanbase. Hopefully Mr. Knight realized this after releasing his self-titled LP earlier this year. Of course, it helped to return with some of his best work yet. Adding a few dashes of “Abbey Road”-esque dad rock to his familiar, melancholy baritone, Knight scores some knock-out performances in songs like album opener “Julia in the Garden” and moody rocker “Veni Vidi Vici.” All together, the album leaves old hits like “Jasper” in the dust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1607112728305-KFZ5J6GP9O9NLI5P2KNV/Destroyer.jpg blog - 2020’s 10 Best Canadian Songwriters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1607199858879-5MCL57DKNATX1HQ5TVZ8/colter+wall.png blog - 2020’s 10 Best Canadian Songwriters - Western Swing & Waltzes and Other Punchy Songs is all vintage. It’s the type of thing you’d find in the abandoned prairie home you can just make out from your passenger seat as you head down Hwy 101. Some of these old-timey exercises can cause your eyes to roll, but Colter Wall transcends tastemaker pretension by doing it so well. He transports you to into his time capsule with his voice and subject matter. There’s an elegy to an “old paint” on this record. Do I need to say much more than that? 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She points to buildings like Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building as true New York monuments and turns her nose at the shiny new things popping up throughout Manhattan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1611371491839-S0QEYD5IRMRSMY93QKZH/Sylvan+Esso.jpg blog - 10 Great American Releases from 2020 - Sylvan Esso - Free Love https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2b3118b2844d482057d02c/1611370748790-RVOHIL2O87FEUG0YLA5J/It+Is+What+It+Is+-+Thundercat.jpg blog - 10 Great American Releases from 2020 - On the flip side, Thundercat’s It Is What It Is is an odd fit for 2020. There’s a lot of references to partying and international travel that might make our quarantined brains uncomfortable. 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