Backxwash Gets clipping., Black Dresses, Sad13 for Upcoming Album

Published Feb 24, 2021

Backxwash's Polaris Music Prize-winning sophomore album, God Has Nothing to Do with This Leave Him Out of It, celebrates its first anniversa...

Toronto's Rogue Tenant Pays Tribute to Late Collaborator with New "Gone" Video

Published Feb 24, 2021

Rogue Tenant, the recording project of Toronto-based singer-songwriter Patrick Joseph Grant, is putting out a new EP, Always Another Day, on...

Fog Lake Announces New Album 'Tragedy Reel'

Published Feb 23, 2021

Fog Lake — a.k.a. Newfoundland-based artist Aaron Powell — released five albums in six years culminating in 2018's Captain, but has kept rel...

Edmonton Rapper K-Riz Mourns Lost Love in "What a Shame" Video

Published Feb 23, 2021

Last December, Edmonton rapper K-Riz shared his journey of healing after a car accident with his The Room EP, which led to him being named o...

Montreal's Isaac Vallentin Says a Lot with a Little on '...'

Published Feb 22, 2021

The minimalist nature of Isaac Vallentin's …, his third solo album, belies how thoughtful the Montreal-based singer-songwriter is with every...

Daniel Romano Collaborator Kelly Sloan Shares New Single

Published Feb 19, 2021

Last summer, Kelly Sloan joined forces with Daniel Romano and David Nardi to form Alias Ensemble, and the trio shared the English folk album...

Edmonton Rapper Arlo Maverick Addresses Police Brutality in Powerful "Hashtag" Video

Published Feb 18, 2021

Edmonton-based rapper Arlo Maverick is addressing police brutality against Black people in a powerful new single and video, "Hashtag." Ahead...

Whitney K Shares Two Songs from Upcoming Album 'Two Years'

Published Feb 11, 2021

Whitney K, the musical project of Whitehorse-based folk-rocker Konner Whitney, is just over a week away from releasing Two Years, which was...

Toronto Slacker Rockers PACKS Sign to Royal Mountain / Fire Talk

Published Feb 10, 2021

Toronto-based singer-songwriter Madeline Link turned her solo project, PAX, into a full band some time ago. Now, the slacker rockers have be...

TEKE::TEKE Detail Debut Album 'Shirushi'

Published Feb 10, 2021

Last November, Montreal-based J-rock fusion group TEKE::TEKE announced they had signed to Kill Rock Stars ahead of their debut album, Shirus...

VICTIME's Simon Provencher Announces Debut EP 'Mesures'

Published Feb 10, 2021

Simon Provencher — the guitarist of noisy, Quebec City-based dance-punks VICTIME — is exploring new ground with his debut solo EP, Mesures,...

'Trompe-l'œil' Turns 15: How Malajube (Almost) Broke the Language Barrier

Published Feb 05, 2021

Malajube's Trompe-l'œil fits right in with many other indie rock records that came out of Montreal in the mid-'00s. It takes the elements of...

Cheekface Turn Doomscrolling into a Dance Party on 'Emphatically No.'

Published Feb 03, 2021

There's a line from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines that I invoke often when talking about the role of therapy in my life: "I should have...

Fleece Share Sultry New Single "Do U Mind? (Leave the Light On)"

Published Feb 03, 2021

Valentine's Day is less than two weeks away, and Fleece are starting their celebrations early. The Montreal-based psych quartet have shared...

Montreal's Ouri Shares Intimate "Shape of It" Live Video

Published Jan 28, 2021

When Montreal-based experimenter Ouri releases something new, you never know what you're gonna get. Her late 2020 output touched on soft ele...

'The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings' Is Absurdly Maximalist

Published Jan 27, 2021

Pop quiz: how many of the Besnard Lakes' first five albums are double LPs? Appreciators of the Montreal outfit's maximalist psych-rock voyag...

'2 Much TV' Podcast Turns Must-See TV Into Must-Hear Music

Published Jan 26, 2021

When the pandemic hit, you could have forgiven Sam Bielanski and Matty Morand for drowning their sorrows in television, as so many of us did...

PONY Announce Debut Album 'TV Baby'

Published Jan 22, 2021

If their power-pop stylings weren't evidence enough, PONY are undeniably children of the '90s, so it's no surprise the Toronto-based troupe...

Art d'Ecco Tackles TV Obsession on New Album 'In Standard Definition'

Published Jan 21, 2021

Everyone's been spending a lot of time these days staring at screens, and British Columbia-based glam rocker Art d'Ecco is taking us to task...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Announces New Album 'Theory of Ice'

Published Jan 21, 2021

Since dropping her last full-length album, f(l)ight, in 2016, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg musician, writer and scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simp...