Amplify Valentine’s Day 2025 Playlist: Songs for Love, Heartache, and Late-Night Crushes Discover the ultimate 2025 Valentine’s Day playlist featuring TikTok hits, timeless love songs, breakup anthems, and self-love tracks. From Lady Gaga to NSYNC, find the perfect song for love, heartbreak, or messy situationships this Valentine’s!
Amplify US Work Permits for Canadian Artists: a Guide to the P-2 Visa Ready to make your mark in the U.S. music industry? Kickstart your American dream with our comprehensive work permit guide for Canadian artists. Discover the essential costs, requirements, and timelines for securing your P-2 Visa in our in-depth how-to guide. Get one step closer to your international music career today!
Amplify Mixed By Gee: Elevating the Artist for the Music Even after 20 years of experience, Ghislain Brind’Amour enters Montreal’s Planet Studio every morning with a clear goal: to continue touching people with his music. The innovative engineer and producer always wants everything to be incredible. This approach has won him several coveted awards, including a JUNO for Wesli‘s album Rapadou Kreyol and the Anglophone […]
Amplify So You Want To Jazz Up Your Life: Exploring the Roots Do you hear that? Listen, it’s in the air. It’s jazz, baby. It is the recommended soundtrack to your videos on social media, or maybe you stumble on jazz musicians going viral while scrolling. No need to dig deep, the genre is going mainstream as well. This year, at the 2023 Grammy Awards, Samara Joy […]
Amplify Songs of Spite: Music that Dares to Defy the Status Quo From disagreements with music labels to satirizing entire music genres, the greatest musicians have never hesitated to tap into their messiest sides when composing.
Amplify Featured Creator: Sin Sayer Rapid Fire Questions Favourite band as a teen? Pantera First concert? Queens of the Stone Age Favourite guitar? My Suhr Classic Pro, in Olympic White “Hard-hitting riffs, shred-guitar solos, hauntingly beautiful soundscapes, and heart-rending vocals that may be interpreted as dispiriting, yet sanguine,” – that is how is guitarist and composer Taylor William Wright describes […]
Amplify Pride 2023: Popstar-Producer Awwful Brings Two Iconic Parties to Fierté Montréal If you’ve gone out in Montreal, chances are you’ve come across local legend Awwful’s work. The producer and all-around popstar has become an unmistakable staple of the queer music scene, through their euphoric pop music and high-energy DJ sets, as well as their iconic queer parties, Glitter Bomb and Unikorn. Dedicated to creating opportunities for […]
Amplify RAC Instructor Spotlight: Francis Brûlé With many skills under his belt; having taken courses in cartooning, visual art, and computer science, the singer-songwriter, pianist, sound designer, producer and now teacher says he is constantly in a learning mode. His goal: to evolve and grow as an artist.
Amplify Top 10 Movie Soundtracks for Your Nostalgic Summer Playlist Summertime and the livin’ is easy. No time evokes a sense of freedom and possibility quite like summer. As the sun shines bright and the weather heats up, the season calls for spontaneous road trips, beach parties, and outdoor adventures – and what better way to amplify those carefree moments than with an amazing soundtrack? […]
Amplify From Montreal to L.A.: Kevin Figs’ Journey as an Independent Producer Growing up in an immigrant family with a mother who sang and a former rockstar father, producer Kevin Figs quickly developed what would become two central pillars in his life: a deep love for music and an incredible work ethic.
Amplify Just how Jesse Mac Cormack likes it In his native Montreal, Jesse Mac Cormack hardly needs an introduction. The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist boasts two highly acclaimed albums, several equally praised EPs, and a growing international fan base.
Amplify Seeing Songs with Synesthesia Artist Ciele Beau Vancouver-based multi-disciplinary musician and visual artist Ciele Beau has always heard – and seen – music a little differently. Her striking audiovisual art incorporates her synesthesia, a neurological condition that mixes up sensory information in the brain, causing her to see colour and shapes when listening to music. This inspires her “Sound to Colour” practice, […]
Amplify Artificial Intelligence: The Future of the Music Industry? For many, the thought of artificial intelligence (AI) embedding itself in many lines of work is terrifying. For others, it’s a revolutionary tool that helps out with multiple tasks. So what is AI?
