Alli Dempsey

2 weeks ago | pastemagazine.com | Alli Dempsey

It’s hard to believe that Yung Lean is only 28. It’s even harder to grasp that it’s been over a decade since he recalibrated the hip-hop universe with his effervescent first single, “Ginseng Strip 2002.” The early cloud-rap anthem has stood the test of time, reaching mega-virality on TikTok mid-pandemic. But, as a new generation began engaging with his past, the Swedish-born Jonatan Leandoer evolved into the present.

Feb 14, 2025 | pastemagazine.com | Alli Dempsey

“I’m on the inside reaching out,” Art d’Ecco whispers during the chorus of “Shell Shock,” the ninth track on the enigmatic Canadian glam rocker’s newest album Serene Demon. Sung from the perspective of a lucid state, the verse acts like an impromptu thesis for the project, one where the already unconventional artist weaves an even more striking, all-embracing picture of his clashing opinions about life itself. How can something as awful as a demon appear so cloudless and bright?

Feb 10, 2025 | silive.com | Alli Dempsey

When Killian McCole and Kelliann Duffy learned their employer, the decade-old Richmond Tattoo in St. George, was closing in November 2024, they knew they had to spring into action fast if they wanted to keep working together. Exactly one week later, the tattoo artists signed the lease for a space at 1237 Bay St. in Rosebank, which previously housed a real estate office. Just two months after that, in January, they opened Rosebank Tattoo.

Feb 6, 2025 | pastemagazine.com | Alli Dempsey

When you’re young and feel trapped in the shrink-wrapped, small-minded town that you grew up in, getting out seems like the most alluring plan of action as soon as you have the means. While fantasizing about the outside, the very real and inevitable flaws of your bucket-list destinations don’t pop out at you the way they would to a native; you’re unable to detect the evil that can lie beneath wherever you try to escape to.

Jan 31, 2025 | altpress.com | Alli Dempsey

evilgiane appears in our Winter 2024 Issue with cover stars L.S. Dunes, Wisp, Fall Out Boy x WWWYF, and Chase Atlantic. Head to the AP Shop to grab a copy. 2024 wasn’t just an eventful year for evilgiane — it might have very well been his busiest one yet. The Surf Gang label founder-turned-producer cranked out two full-length albums, an EP, and 28 singles, then embarked on a fall tour that took him around the world in nearly two months.