Two of the hardest radio shows in the world to impress played the same Tara Lily song within a month of each other — and the comeback video was shot in one take, on Super 8, in the most famous concert hall in Britain, before the sun came up.
Two of the hardest radio shows in the world to impress played the same Tara Lily song within a month of each other — and the comeback video was shot in one take, on Super 8, in the most famous concert hall in Britain, before the sun came up.
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Antidote has covered the music other magazines walk past since 2001 — the DJs, the listening bars, the records built out of other people’s records. This is the new front page of that same magazine.
The full set, playable in the page — no account needed. Pairs with “Theo Parrish: Detroit’s Beautiful Problem” in Latest Stories.
Antidote Magazine is an urban lifestyle guide published from Ottawa since 2001. It was founded on a suspicion: the most interesting culture in a city rarely happens at centre stage. It happens in record shops and listening bars, in club booths at 2 a.m., in the margins of other people’s records.
Twenty-five volumes in, the brief has not changed. If it is made with obsession — a Detroit record that takes all night to say its piece, a London jazz band playing like it is a contact sport, a Montreal hotel room wired like a gallery — it belongs here, covered in long form by people who were actually listening.
More voices, more rooms, more records. The remedy is diversity is not a slogan the magazine inherited. It is the assignment, renewed every issue since 2001.