THE THOUGHT CANTEEN

Lately, I have spent my commute to school submerged solely in the lulling thrums of "Thank Thee", a track exemplifying the talent of up-and-coming musician Noah Salem. “Skin - Demo,” equally soothing for the subtlety of vocals and gentle expertise of guitar, is al...

1. As a kid, it was comical how much I wasn’t The Dancing Queen. How deeply I dreaded the weekly jazz classes I was enrolled in. (If only because it was obligatory to submit your daughter to something incorporating blush and a leotard). I routinely shrunk to the back o...

One of the things that jutted out to me after I left the movie theatre (stunned, with a heart as full as it was broken) was the absence of a traditional cinematic moment where mutual feelings are spoken aloud, thrust pivotally into the open. A clean-cut variation of “I...

Last week, at the Sidney Meyer Music Bowl, roughly 10,000 people gathered in buzzy anticipation. Overhead, the sky deepened from rosy pink through to witchy mauve, a variation of enchantment every time you looked up, each so fitting for the mystical figure we were wait...

I find it fitting, given the similarity of their sounds, that Two Door Cinema Club and Bombay Bicycle Club both brand themselves as clubs. It’s almost like they were meant to be written about together. Specialising in wistful disco ballads that give way to blissful arc...