Alex Southey (he/him) is a critic, interviewer, musician, and writer based in Toronto/Tkaronto, Canada.
After graduating from the University of British Columbia with a major in Creative Writing and minor in History, Southey began his writing career as a film and music reviewer and interviewer for various tiny outlets in his native Vancouver in earnest. These outlets included Hollywood North Magazine, Satellite Gallery, Beatroute, and Daily Hive.
Since moving to Toronto in 2018, he's covered film and television for Daily Hive Toronto, MovieMaker Magazine, and more recently That Shelf, where he is a Featured Critic. In July 2025, Southey became a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, meaning how he scores a film or television show impacts its RT score.​ In September 2025, he covered TIFF50, reviewing films, and covering red carpets, interviewing major figures like actors Willem Dafoe and Kyle Gallner.
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He writes short and longform fiction.
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In May 2024, Southey created the music interview podcast "Your Worst Song". New episodes premiere every Monday, and the occasional bonus episode comes out on Thursdays. Notable interviews include members of bands Rheostatics, July Talk, Blue Rodeo, and Sam Roberts Band, and solo acts Dan Mangan, Wolf Castle, Skye Wallace, Nina Nastasia, and more. In January 2025 he hosted a live version of the podcast at Wintersong Festival, and in June of the same year covered NXNE. He concluded the podcast one year later.
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Listen wherever you get podcasts.
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Southey began his music career as a solo acoustic artist in Fall 2018. With each subsequent release, Southey has developed an increasingly passionate fanbase, along with positive recognition, play, and coverage from CBC Radio, SiriusXM, Billboard Canada, Exclaim! Magazine, Dominionated, Canadian Beats, NXNE, Wintersong Festival, Tinnitist, The Sound Cafe, CHCH Morning Show, and a slew of Canadian and American college and community radio stations.
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From 2023-2024 he experimented with pulling some (and at times all) of his music off of Spotify and other major streamers in order to drive his fans and general audiences towards a fairer method of music-sharing and listening.
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For a short time in 2025 he put his music back on the streamers, but as of July of that year, it is permanently off.
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His music can be found on Bandcamp, Youtube, and some other streamers.​
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Thanks to all of this cumulative exposure in the Canadian arts industries, Southey has well-rounded experience when it comes to cultural coverage and writing, suited for a variety of Communications and Journalism roles.
