Also Cool Mag

02/02/2025

BRB, recounting a dreamy, tender evening with rising folk artist 🧚‍♀️✨

Read Magdalena Styś’ review of Liana’s Rotterdam show on the site! 🎶

02/02/2025

❤️‍🔥 a valentine’s market for your pleasure ❤️‍🔥

skincare, lingerie, jewelry, prints, chocolates && foodscape of our dreams — for your indulgence, lover(s) optional

feb 13 6-10pm


* goodies provided by:
fantasy
daylen






🥵✨c u soon
xo your also cool valentines

31/01/2025

Can you tell that we love ? 🥲

With his best live set we’ve seen yet, the Swedish rapper transformed into a frozen dreamscape for Drainers & new fans alike ❄️

Relive a night with Bladee at this year’s Igloofest in our review! Live now on the site with photos from Montreal-based photographer 🌟

Thank you so much to the festival for having us!

24/01/2025

Can we still say Happy New Year? 🫣
ICYMI: our January newsletter dropped yesterday 💌 Catch up on all things Also Cool now via the link in bio 🔗

This month’s memes are dedicated to an artist like no other… Rest in peace ❤️‍🔥

23/01/2025

What's Cool in January 2025 -

In true Drain Gang fashion... 𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓥𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 have come to Igloofest this year with killer headliners like Apashe, Four Tet, Marie Davidson, Strawberry Gothcake, and—of course, the Icedancer himself—Bladee. Week #2 of the festival is on, and there's still time to gr...

22/01/2025

𝓒𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓥𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 have come to this year & you know we finna be in the pit 🥶
Seriously though, the lineup is stacked, make sure to get your tickets to & so many other heavy hitters 😤 Read our top picks & listen to our Igloofest playlist on the site! 🧊

20/01/2025

ICYMI 🫧 Montreal’s has dropped her debut EP “All the Things I Try to Say” 💿 Ahead of her set at , read our interview with the singer-songwriter & producer on her transition from acoustic to electropop on the site! 💻 Live now via the link in bio ⚡️

20/01/2025

https://alsocoolmag.com/musicblog/interview-franki-charms-with-electropop-antics-on-debut-ep-all-the-things-i-try-to-say

Montreal singer-songwriter and producer Franki discusses her new EP "All the Things I Try to Say" in advance of her performance at Taverne Tour in Montreal on February 7th, 2025.

11/01/2025

Ahead of her DJ set on January 25th at Le Système, we had the chance to catch up with taste-maker Nabihah Iqbal 🦋

Read our interview with the artist, producer, curator, broadcaster, and DJ on the art of DJing, knowledge sharing in musical spaces, mentorship and more💻

https://alsocoolmag.com/musicblog/nabihah-iqbal-on-the-art-of-djing-knowledge-sharing-mentorship-and-more

📸 credits: #1 by Joseph Hayes, #2 via Build Hollywood, #3 via Friends of Friends

11/01/2025

Ahead of her DJ set on January 25th at Le Système, we had the chance to catch up with taste-maker Nabihah Iqbal 🦋

Read our interview with the artist, producer, curator, broadcaster, and DJ on the art of DJing, knowledge sharing in musical spaces, mentorship and more💻

Also Cool catches up with London UK-based artist, producer and DJ Nabihah Iqbal on the art of DJing, mentoring at Abbey Road Studios and her upcoming tour with Sharon Van Etten.

06/01/2025

First live show of 2025! 🪩 Also Cool Mag is thrilled to present London-based artist, producer, radio host & DJ Nabihah Iqbal at Système - 7119 Rue St-Hubert on Saturday, January 25th, joined by our co-founders flleur & Lamb Fatale 🛸

Early-bird tickets are already sold out! Don’t miss your chance to snag second tier tickets via the link below 🎫

https://ra.co/events/2072288?sharedId=entity&subId1=00c8b1f0287683a7f7fe381df465c5860115b092e88e04b26b0674&subId3=03P42UdnVny0jOXZzulx6p&partnerId=residentadvisor

31/12/2024

From SoundCloud cult favs to indie label darlings, discover Also Cool’s top albums of 2024 💿✨ Live now on the site with accompanying playlists for listening on YouTube & Spotify 🎧

https://alsocoolmag.com/musicblog/2024-in-review-also-cools-top-albums

In no particular order (except alphabetical 😉), here’s what we were listening to in 2024:

🌟 2hollis - boy
🌟 Alix Fernz - Bizou (Mothland)
🌟 Banggz - 4 THE BANGGERZ
🌟 Bladee - Cold Visions (Trash Island)
🌟 Cecile Believe - Tender the Spark (ambient tweets / Supernature)
🌟 Chanel Beads - Your Day Will Come (Jagjaguwar)
🌟 Cindy Lee - Diamond Jubilee
🌟 cumgirl8 - the 8th cu***ng (4AD)
🌟 The Dare - What’s Wrong With New York? (Republic Records)
🌟 Fontaines D.C. - Romance (XL Recordings)
🌟 Khruangbin - A La Sala (Dead Oceans)
🌟 Kim Gordon - The Collective (Matador Records)
🌟 Mdou Moctar- Funeral for Justice (Matador Records)
🌟 Molchat Doma - Belaya Polosa (Sacred Bones Records)
🌟 Nick Schofield - Ambient Ensemble (Forward Music Group)
🌟 Trevor Sloan - A Room by the Green Sea
🌟 VICTIME - En conversation avec (Mothland)

31/12/2024

https://alsocoolmag.com/musicblog/2024-in-review-also-cools-top-albums

From SoundCloud cult favourites to indie label darlings, discover Also Cool's top albums of 2024 with selections from Fontaines D.C., Molchat Doma, Kim Gordon and more.

14/12/2024

Our latest Playlists Refresh is here 🌀 We’ve got soft indie rock & bangers to dance to with your morning coffee ☕️ Read our reviews on the site & listen along with the official Also Cool Playlist Refresh on 🎧
Link is where it usually is 💻

14/12/2024

camoufly and Dazegxd, Scarlet Rae, Safe Mind, And More: Also Cool's Playlist Refresh

Check out Also Cool Mag's latest Playlist Refresh, featuring the likes of Fickle Friends, clay pigeon and Never Better, Your Friend Brennan, and more!

08/12/2024

join us on .as today at 5pm for sad 1960s tunes to sip some tea or wine to by the youtube fireplace ☕️🍷

enjoy these AI generated sad 1960s women by the fire in the meantime :-)

xoxo holly

06/12/2024

Dive into the electrifying sound of MTL alt-rockers 🌊🖤 Their debut EP “I Can’t Swim” is out now – read more about the impossibly cool five-piece with our profile by Maggie Caroddo!

📸 Judy Yun

06/12/2024

Dive into the World of Poolgirl

Read our profile of the impossibly cool Montreal alternative rock band Poolgirl, and stream their first EP "I Can't Swim" – out now!