The Line of Best Fit
The Line of Best Fit, Matt Young, Cal Cashin, major thread*, Simon Harrison, Thomas Hannan, Laura DavidNew perspectives on music and pop culture
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Where do I begin with... Cocteau Twins?
Back in the ancient mists of time, one of the best methods of discovering new music was of course in the dedicated pages of the music magazines.
I’m talking long before the internet’s domination of pretty much anything media related. It se...
It’s time we started treating Canada’s music scene like a scene
Hello people, happy Monday.
I’m gonna just shout out a few names. Alvvays. Andy Shauf. Feist. Broken Social Scene. Saya Gray. BADBADNOTGOOD. Charlotte Day Wilson. Daniel Caesar. Mustafa. Valley. Timber Timbre. Wolf Parade. Luna Li. The Bea...
The Friday Dispatch
Dev Lemons cuts through the horror
Speaking over a video call from a room crowded with odd art and collectibles, Lemons sits before shelves filled with what she affectionately calls “little stuff, little bullshit. There is an enormous...
Where do I begin with... Pink Floyd?
Pink Floyd fans are omnipresent. Radio dilettantes, collegiate stoners, guys obsessed with guitar tone, your dad’s buddies, music buffs with otherwise esoteric taste: they all have a Floyd album of choice.
Upon discovering them as a teenag...
My favourite band’s “final album” is coming out on Friday. So why don’t I care?
This week The Fall are releasing their final album. Kind of. I guess. Yeah. In a manner of speaking.
The legendary post-punk band – whose one constant member was volatile pub shaman Mark E. Smith – have one of the greatest discographies of...
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The leading voice in new music discovery: New perspectives on pop culture from from the biggest independent music website in the world.
I write about music and culture. Fiction and non-fiction. (He/Him) F I N I T U M : A novella - Out Now
Avant-rock post-critic and groove historian. Substack Editor at BEST FIT, mercurial freelancer in a number of other places.
A series of interviews and musings on identity. Get to know the people you thought you already knew.
Simon is a former journalist from back-in-the-day and now, apparently, a current journalist from over-the-hill
Thomas Hannan is occasionally the singer and guitarist in a Prince and Bruce Springsteen covers band.
ok so have you heard of...
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