On October 20, 2024, Ontario’s new Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) officially came into effect. This overhaul of the province’s land use planning framework merges the former PPS (2020) with the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, effectively dismantling the policy framework that was created… Read More »Ontario’s New Provincial Policy Statement: A Step Backward for Sustainable Growth
Countries from around the world are gathering to address the biodiversity and climate crises at separate global conferences in October and November. Beginning October 21 and lasting until November 11, the 2024 United Nations Biodiversity Conference 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP16) to… Read More »Aligning Biodiversity and Climate at International Conferences
We’ve talked about Los Angeles sludge outfit QAALM on the Decibel site a few times and we’re back again with a full stream of Grave Impressions of an Unbroken Arc, the band’s second album. Weighing in at 45 minutes over the course of four hefty tracks, QAALM cross the… Read More »Full Album Stream: QAALM – “Grave Impressions Of An Unbroken Arc”
We haven’t heard much from lefty guitarist Scott Hedrick since the last Skeletonwitch album, Devouring Radiant Light, in 2018. Hedrick’s played on a couple of avant metal releases (Ghosts in 2019 and Spectres in 2023) by improvisational Dutch duo Dead Neanderthals, but there’s been a definite lack of… Read More »Q&A: Scott Hedrick (Skeletonwitch) on His Debut Instrumental Solo Album, Devotional Drift Vol. 1
SNSD’s Sooyoung actually started her idol career in a short-lived J-pop group before eventually debuting in Korea. It’s funny, then, that it took this long for her to release a solo single in Japan. Better late than never, as Unstoppable recaptures some of the magic… Read More »Song Review: Sooyoung (SNSD) – Unstoppable