Sebastian Buzzalino

Dec 5, 2024 | readrange.com | Sebastian Buzzalino

There is nothing more punk these days than a band who knows they’re hot and refuses to apologize for it. A self-described “big, lumbering, fuck-off machine that’s going to destroy,” Vancouver’s WAIT//LESS have been torching west coast audiences with their maddening, blistering and abrasive punk.

Oct 1, 2024 | readrange.com | Sebastian Buzzalino

It was another POP for the books, as the 23rd edition of Montreal’s stalwart indie music festival came and went this past week. We spent five days traipsing up and down the eclectic and vibrant streets of Mile End in Montreal chasing down old favourites and new discoveries, taking in a festival that can ultimately be considered a love letter to its city and its community.

Sep 24, 2024 | readrange.com | Sebastian Buzzalino

From September 25 to 29, Pop Montreal will feature more than 200 shows spread over 20 venues — and that’s only their music programming. POP Montreal also features film programming, an industry symposium, art programming and, for the first time ever, a stand-up comedy segment. To make sense of this sprawling and packed calendar of events, RANGE presents our top music picks to serve as entry points for the marathon long weekend of shows.

Sep 12, 2024 | readrange.com | Sebastian Buzzalino

The Canadian hinterlands are often thought of in terms of an unforgiven tundra, endless empty miles of prairies, or the heart of a landmass that continues to vanish over the horizon. But deep in the undifferentiated steppes of suburbia lies a different kind of grey, oppressive, suffocating hinterland – an unimaginative, middle-of-the-road, middle-of-the-pack, ambitionless miasma from which few emerge with any kind of remaining shine.

Sep 6, 2024 | readrange.com | Sebastian Buzzalino

2024 is proving to be a landmark year for MJ Lenderman. He first made headlines ahead of Waxahatchee’s spring release, Tiger Blood, guest starring alongside Katie Crutchfield on the lead single and excellent heartbreaker, “Right Back To It.” In that same vein, the lead single off his new LP, “She’s Leaving You,” continues to trace devastating fault lines in relationships that crumble around the protagonists.