On a flaming line | DOMINIONATED August 2021
Hello! The DOMINIONATED newsletter has migrated over to a new service called Buttondown. Hopefully, this transition has been seamless for existing followers...
Ask and Ye Shall Receive | DOMINIONATED July 2021
2021 • 07 • 20 Hello! Did you miss us? Someone out there did, as we surmised from a recent anonymous communication we got through the DOMINIONATED contact...
Escape From Planet Devours Ltd. Ed. 12" Vinyl Giveaway
Hello newsletter people! Yes, we have been quiet lately, but fear not, a new edition of the newsletter will be coming your way in the next few weeks. In the...
Look what you started. | DOMINIONATED May 2021
2021 • 05 • 18 Glutenhead, “Spinal Cord” (Toronto ON) Of the song “Spinal Cord,” this month's free MP3 download for DOMINIONATED's Patreon subscribers,...
Pause Edit Filter Play | DOMINIONATED April 2021
2021 • 04 • 20 Ducks Ltd., “As Big As All Outside” (Toronto ON) Toronto's Ducks Ltd. (formerly known as Ducks Unlimited) released a wicked EP at the start of...
Words and Music | DOMINIONATED March 2021
2021 • 03 • 15 If there’s been any silver lining to a years-long pandemic and enforced isolation, it’s been extra time for pastimes that bring us comfort and...
Cover me, I'm going in. | DOMINIONATED February 2021
2021 • 02 • 11 2020 was a really bad year full of really great cover songs. Maybe it was a coincidence or maybe the tumultuous times led artists to lean on...
The same but by different means | DOMINIONATED December 2020
2020 • 12 • 29 There's no poetic — or polite — way to summarize our 2020 experience. There's no point in us trying to sound profound about it, either. You...
Here On In | DOminiONATED October 2020
2020 • 10 • 07 🔥Nick Zubeck, Venusian Blues (Guelph ON) At the core of Venusian Blues is Nick Zubeck’s signature songwriting style: straight-forward...
Your Winters Are Like Summers Here | DOminiONATED September 2020
2020 • 09 • 03 🔥Ora Corgan, Bells in the Ruins (Victoria BC) Listening to Ora Cogan's Bells in the Ruins feels like walking through fog. The ten electro-...
Introducing 20 OR 20: a new podcast from DOMINIONATED
Twenty Minutes. Twenty Questions. (Whichever comes first.) Today, DOMINIONATED is excited to announce the launch of a brand new podcast: 20 or 20. On 20 or...
Your call will be answered by the next available agent | DOminiONATED August 2020
2020 • 08 • 06 🔥AMC Gremlin, Heavy Dust (Guelph ON) AMC Gremlin's Heavy Dust was released in May 2020 but was performed, recorded, and mixed over the course...
Holding Space | DOminiONATED July 2020
2020 • 07 • 02 🔥Wake, Devouring Ruin (Calgary AB) Sometimes I use music to soothe the rattling in my skull. When that doesn't work, I need music to match the...
Polaris Prognostications | DOminiONATED June 2020
2020 • 06 • 04 Every year, the end of May marks the closing of the Polaris Music Prize's eligibility year. Even before June 1 rolls around, Polaris jurors...
To-Do List | DOminiONATED May 2020
2020 • 05 • 01 🔥Slow ManTofu, Soft Melody Maker (Kingston ON) ◀︎ BUY IT ON BANDCAMP The only thing we love more than former DOMINIONATED contributor David...
Make a Sound | DOminiONATED April 2020
2020 • 04 • 01 🔥Jennah Barry, Holiday (South Shore NS) The colours that grace the cover of Jennah Barry's new album Holiday are soft: faded blues and greens,...
Perpetual Love Burning | DOminiONATED March 2020
2020 • 03 • 03 🔥Etienne Dufresne, Sainte-Colère (Montréal QC) Etienne Dufresne isn't in a hurry on his debut release, Sainte-Colère. Dufresne lets his...
Someday Soon | DOminiONATED February 2020
2020 • 02 • 03 🔥Lev Snowe, Someday Soon (Winnipeg MB) As people across Canada deal with the inevitable onset of winter, with its subarctic temperatures and...
Wordless Sentence | DOminiONATED January 2020
2020 • 01 • 09 Admit it: you're hardly over all the New Year's hoopla, too. You still feel like a walking zombie who wants nothing more to retreat into the...
Year-end; Didn't Write a Newsletter | DOminiONATED December 2019
2019 • 12 • 02 Hello! Let’s cut to the chase: we don’t have a newsletter jam-packed with mini-reviews of submissions from the mailbag this month. It’s the...