Backxwash is blazing her own path to the top of the music industry, and if you're not on board, you know where the door is. The Montreal-based artist also known as Ashanti Mutinta has been blowing ...

Let the credits roll — Backxwash has wrapped her horrorcore trilogy. HIS HAPPINESS SHALL COME FIRST EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SUFFERING, released on Halloween, is her third album in as many years, and it ...

“It’s wild!” Backxwash said from Ottawa, where she’s currently residing as she plans a permanent move back to Montreal. “I grew up reading Metal Hammer and Kerrang! I think people are genuinely ...

Backxwash isn’t so much a misunderstood artist as she is perhaps too often underappreciated for what she actually does best. Which is to say, to rap well and experiment with sounds, words and cadence ...

Queeries is a weekly column by CBC Arts producer Peter Knegt that queries LGBTQ art, culture and/or identity through a personal lens. There's a chance you missed it in the bombardment of news related ...

So goes the eerie sample that opens the new project from rapper and producer Backxwash, priming listeners for what’s to come: a harrowing and relentlessly heavy album that achieves catharsis through ...

As she revealed in this week's cover interview, the life of Ashanti Mutinta has involved challenges piled upon challenges: drugs, a strict, overbearing Christian upbringing, extreme depression, ...