Sadly, today (July 20) would have marked the 53rd birthday of late Soundgarden hero Chris Cornell, who committed suicide in May. Tributes ha...

Earlier today (July 20), the music world was shocked by the news that Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington had passed away at age 41. Bot...

Following a string of mini-releases, sprawling Montreal unit Busty and the Bass are now finally announcing their debut album. Titled Uncommo...

WayHome Music & Arts Festival is set to return to Oro-Medonte, ON, later this month, but some attendees voiced concerns about safety after l...

Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington has died, committing suicide by hanging, TMZ reports. He was 41. The publication reports that law...

Never one to be short on surprises, Aphex Twin has gifted listeners even more new and previously unreleased music as part of an update to hi...

Rising French vocalist Barbara Weldens collapsed and died onstage during a concert last night (July 19), with French media reporting that sh...

Syracuse dude Gavin Strickland took a roadtrip to Toronto and rocked out at Metallica's Rogers Centre show on Sunday night (July 16) — bu...

Whether you've been bogged down by work or stuck following any of the ridiculous news stories as of late, it's nice to take a break from eve...

After a lengthy hiatus, Wolf Parade returned to work last year with EP 4 and an extensive live schedule, and now they've unveiled plans for ...

The Smiths' seminal 1986 album The Queen Is Dead turned 30 last year, and after a rather dramatic delay, it's finally getting the anniversar...

Radiohead have endured plenty of public shots over the last few months from artists urging the band to boycott Israel and cancel their Tel A...

Like it or not, last weekend's premiere of Game of Thrones gave fans an Ed Sheeran cameo. But with the UK pop star's sudden abandonment of T...

Earlier this week, R. Kelly was accused of holding women captive in an abusive "cult," as outlined in an investigative piece published by Bu...

Norovirus-warring food chain Chipotle enlisted Jim James and Brittany Howard for a Backstreet Boys cover as part of an advertising campaign ...

A waxwork figure of Beyoncé is setting the internet alight — for all the wrong reasons. A fan shared a photo of the Queen Bey replica on ...

Not long after releasing The Life of Pablo last year, Kanye West was hit with a class action suit over claims the album would remain exclu...

Madonna fans hoping to get their hands on some of her most intimate belongings are out of luck.   A Manhattan judge has ordered that a nu...

Though hints of Lana Del Rey's forthcoming album Lust for Life suggest the singer's signature sombreness may have run its course — "Lana D...

Buzzy Long Island brother duo Brian and Michael D'Addario made a splash last year releasing Do Hollywood as the Lemon Twigs. The two have ...

Nine Inch Nails are in the midst of rolling out a "trilogy of related EPs," and in following last year's Not the Actual Events, the band'sÂ...

Following a quick series of teaser tracks and some unfortunate leaks, Tyler, the Creator has finally properly delivered his Flower Boy in fu...

Lana Del Rey has been hinting at her latest LP Lust for Life for months now, and it's finally here.   The record hears Del Rey embracing ...

After teaming up with Phantogram and Jamie Lidell for a pair of collaborations last year, A-Trak has now enlisted Migos' Quavo and Lil Yacht...

Cut Copy recently came back into our lives with the new single "Airborne." And while we still don't have details on the band's upcoming albu...

Politically charged supergroup Prophets of Rage will deliver their self-titled debut LP later this year, and they've just teased its arrival...

Vic Mensa is just over a week away from officially releasing The Autobiography, but until then, the Chicago MC has made his debut full-leng...

Mount Kimbie shared their latest King Krule collaboration "Blue Train Lines" when they recently announced the project's new LP Love What Su...

For the fourth edition of our ever-growing mix series, we've got a very special delivery from la belle province. Montreal producer Stereo_IM...

Ontario singer-songwriter Tim Moxam and Aussie export Liz Stringer toured the latter's home country together earlier this year, and now they...

With Tyler, the Creator gearing up for the arrival of his Scum Fuck Flower Boy on Friday (July 21), the rap instigator has now shared the ne...

Departed indie rock heroes Luna reunited a few years back, but it's only now that they are finally gearing up to deliver some proper new rel...

Roger Waters took a good, hard look at today's world and its ills with Is This the Life We Really Want? earlier this year. Now, the rock i...

Post-metal has been described as thinking man's metal for it's transcendence of heavy music, but while its composers are perhaps intellectua...

After a prestigious win at Cannes for Best Soundtrack, Oneohtrix Point Never is gearing up to release his Good Time score upon the masses. W...

On Friday (July 21), the long wait for Cornelius' new album Mellow Waves — the Japanese artist's first proper album in over a decade — w...

Vancouver indie rockers Girlfriends and Boyfriends released their latest LP Our Garden back in 2015, but the group have just treated that al...

Long-running Canadian indie rockers Change of Heart will be hitting the live stage once again this fall in celebration of the 25th anniversa...

Randy Newman poked fun at Vladimir Putin with his first song from the forthcoming Dark Matter, and he's now turned his focus to a notable b...

The OBGMs are set to deliver their self-titled debut LP this fall, and ahead of its arrival, the quartet have shared a second single called ...

Following 2016's debut EP Balance, Asta Hiroki returns with a new double A-side "Channels/Vulnerable," new tracks that are a welcome additio...

It's not often that you go to a show in Toronto and find yourself amongst an audience as quiet as the one gathered for Julie Byrne last nigh...

The Toronto-based a l l i e has been touted as one to watch for a few years now, and Nightshade further validates the designation. As part o...

Verte is the debut EP of Mallard, a South London-based producer whose production style emphasizes the artist's multi-instrumentalism and aff...

True to its name, Mellow Waves, the new album from Japanese music-maker Cornelius (née Keigo Oyamada) — his first North American release ...

In recent years, experimental pop purveyors Animal Collective have sort of acted like a Bizarro Voltron, working better apart (Panda Bear's ...

Trapped Under Ice have always been a boundary-pushing band within the hardcore scene, each of their releases thus far having been establishe...

Daphni — the club-prioritizing alias of Caribou's Dan Snaith — returns with its first full body of work since the critical acclaim of 20...

After a steady drip of singles, Vancouver producer and multi-instrumentalist Luke Hartle's latest EP as iamforest is finally available for a...

After seven incredibly long years, Santa Cruz, CA tech-death luminaries Decrepit Birth return with their new album, Axis Mundi. The highly a...

Nothing about deathcore is subtle. The subgenre took off in the mid 2000s with massive hardcore-influenced breakdowns doused in controversia...

Brutal tech death bands are the surgeons of the metal world: immersed in blood and guts but with a need for mechanical precision that few jo...

When MC4, which was meant to be French Montana's sophomore project, instead became his 21st official mixtape as a result of a distribution/r...

Billy Bragg and Joe Henry's excellent Shine a Light was one of my favourite folk albums of 2016. It saw the intercontinental songwriting duo...

Kacy & Clayton (Kacy Anderson and Clayton Lithicum) are at a bit of a crossroads in their career. Still touring their Juno-nominated, acclai...

This workshop was special. First of all, it was stacked with giants: Billy Bragg and Sarah Harmer, along with the new generation, Lisa LeBla...

Toronto trio Communism brought their 2016 debut Get Down Get Together to Hillside's Island Stage in what I thought was a smart twist of prog...

Cheekily greeting the crowd for the first time since his 1981 Hard Promises Tour, even Tom Petty was aware that his return the nation's capi...

"Metallica does not give a fuck," announced James Hetfield two songs into the Toronto stop on Metallica's current 'WorldWired' Tour. Regardl...

With suitably gorgeous sunny weather conditions, pseudo-Satanic occult rock act Ghost kicked off the proceedings at the Budweiser Stage for ...