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A few days before Quinton Barnes was set to perform at Casa Del Popolo, I listened to Quinton’s most recent project, Black Noise, an album characterized by the unsettling cacophony of orchestral instruments inspired by Miles Davis, overlayed over an otherwise beautifully produced album. On the day of the show, I woke up at 6 in the morning to catch a rideshare from Ottawa to Montreal.

A few days before Quinton Barnes was set to perform at Casa Del Popolo, I listened to Quinton’s most recent project, Black Noise, an album characterized by the unsettling cacophony of orchestral instruments inspired by Miles Davis, overlayed over an otherwise beautifully produced album. On the day of the show, I woke up at 6 in the morning to catch a rideshare from Ottawa to Montreal.

Over the past decade, we have tacitly acknowledged that online, we are the product. Our search histories and scrolling habits are being sold, not just to corporations, but also to government intelligence agencies. Relinquishing any modicum of privacy feels so inevitable that most of us passively surrender our online data to the ownership of a few major internet conglomerates.

It's beginning to sound a lot like Santapalooza on BVST! For the 14th year in a row, Angelica is joined by special guest Matt Kiernan for another trip through the freshest new Christmas music you've never heard before.