Earlier this year, Libertines songsmith Pete Doherty hinted that he'd been working on the follow-up to his debut solo album Grace/Wastelands...

Last year, Canadian cinema was treated to a truly special film with the arrival of Turbo Kid. Considered an instant genre classic by many, t...

Kashif Saleem, the funk and boogie producer who worked with the likes of Whitney Houston and George Benson, has died. The musician was 56 ye...

Toronto- and London-based experimental orchestra Flowers of Hell collaborated with opera soprano Danie Friesen for last year's Aria 51 EP, a...

A year after first announcing plans to renovate its jazz section into a marijuana dispensary, Amoeba Music's 420-friendly business model for...

Coming off of last year's split 12-inch with Napalmpom, Canadian riff-master Ian Blurton's Public Animal have announced they're ready to bla...

We absolutely loved Jonathan Demme's new Justin Timberlake doc when it premiered at TIFF earlier this month, and we have a strong feeling ...

The Rolling Stones recently gave film fans a glimpse into their Latin America tour when the Paul Dugdale-directed documentary Olé Olé Olé...

With the summer festival season now behind us, it's time to focus on some indoor, all-day electronic activity. BC's Contact Winter Music Fes...

For Bob Dylan fans who can't make it out to "Oldchella" a couple weeks from now, fear not — you'll have plenty of opportunity to listen to...

Against Me! frontwoman Laura Jane Grace publicly came out as a trans woman in Rolling Stone back in 2012, but a new article about the punk s...

The Clash's impact is set to be explored in a new film called London Town, which tells the story of a teenage boy whose life is transformed ...

Genres like trip-hop, dubstep and drum'n'bass can all be traced back to a subgenre of reggae music known as dub. At its most reductive, dub ...

The CBC broadcast of the Tragically Hip's final performance attracted 11.7 million viewers, with more than 25,000 of those people watching o...

After spending the summer crossing Canada with Supermoon, Vancouver power-pop wonder Jay Arner has announced another extended tour in suppor...

From mysterious postcards, to comeback singles, to merch announcing their impending breakup, it's hard to tell what Brand New have in store ...

Ever since his release from prison, the great Gucci Mane has been more of a cultural force than ever before. We're already eagerly counting...

Before Marilyn Manson hits the family with his forthcoming Say10, the longtime shock rocker is reportedly dropping an anniversary release su...

If you've been bootlegging your MP3 collection off of YouTube videos, consider yourself warned. Universal, Warner, Sony and other labels hav...

UK post-punk icon Adam Ant is set to relive some of his earliest work for an upcoming tour. He's announced plans to take Adam and the Ants' ...

Continuing to plug the highly caffeinated sounds of comeback LP Hypercaffium Spazzinate, punk greats Descendents have unveiled a concert-sty...

After having his 99.9% crowned the winner of this year's Polaris Music Prize, Kaytranada has revealed a regal and retro music video for the...

Having released a couple of standalone tracks this summer, Ryan Hemsworth has decided to open the musical floodgates to deliver a new 51-min...

The MLB post-season is almost here, and if Toronto quartet Sportsfan's band name didn't already tip you off, they're ready for some October ...

Hailing from Regina, hip-hop duo DGS Samurai Champs finds rapper Jeah and R&B singer Merv xx Gotti teaming up to deliver fresh tunes that to...

With the Weakerthans firmly resting in the past, beloved frontman and purveyor of Can-rock poetry John K. Samson is set to release his secon...

After paying homage to some of their influences via a recent FACT mix, Austin synth specialists S U R V I V E are giving us the straight goo...

Coming off the destructive, Predator-themed music video for "Shadows," Pacific Northwest metal manglers Red Fang have now boomed out one ug...

Bon Iver first brought 22, A Million 's "8 (circle)" to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, but a studio version of the new age pop expe...

Last month, the twin sister-fronted Tasseomancy announced plans for their next LP Do Easy, and they've just unveiled a new single called "M...

The details on Beck's forthcoming full-length release are still a bit unclear, but the ever-morphing popsmith has had another new tune hit o...

Temples took their 2014 LP Sun Structures on a lengthy live run into last year, but the UK psych-rock outfit are finally setting their sight...

Synth-loving horror master John Carpenter has grafted some spooky and philosophical visuals to one of his "lost themes." Blurring the lines ...

Following the release of last year's Music Complete and its more recent extended version, New Order are looking back to the album once again...

Metallica are set to release their 11th studio LP Hardwired...To Self-Destruct this November, and ahead of the two-disc collection arrivin...

Sad to say, but Toronto noise mongers Das Rad have recorded their last two songs. The heavy power trio are going to play one last show on Oc...

JD and the Sunshine Band is a Winnipeg collective that brings musicians and street-involved people together for artistic collaborations, and...

Buffalo, NY hardcore vets Every Time I Die are celebrating the release of their new Low Teens album in the creepiest way possible, having j...

In addition to having dropped his politically, socially-charged Us or Else EP today (September 23), Atlanta rapper T.I. has gathered up some...

While CJ Fly's new FLYTRAP album is set to go live later this fall, the Pro Era rapper is reeling us in ahead of the official release with a...

For a tiny-in-stature team of two, Diet Cig make a big impact. Playing their first Toronto show at the Drake Hotel on Monday night (Septembe...

Just before their 1984 effort, Ocean Rain, was released, Echo & the Bunnymen frontman Ian McCulloch declared it the "greatest album ever mad...

Maybe it was a nod to the scrappy, exploratory era that birthed Hayden's 1996 debut, Everything I Long For, which he was playing front-to-ba...

"What is this place? Where are we?" asked Angel Olsen cheekily, referring to the Rialto Theatre in all its ornate yet not gaudy glory. "I fe...

Dually cursed and blessed with a life of perpetual maturity due to an early exposure to folk music, British poetess and musician Laura Marli...

Tim Darcy, the charismatic lead singer and lyricist of the great Montreal band Ought, played a rare show with his solo band, debuting songs ...

Performing in a two-piece formation with her brother, a guitarist, as both were cast in flickering images by a projectionist, Montreal artis...

Leading a scrappy power trio, Tamara Sandor cut a mystical figure. Her voice was breathy, but bold. During a song inspired by a story she re...

Genre-mashing local darling Jef Elise Barbara commandeered a synthesizer and electronic beats while flanked by a bassist, saxophonist, and b...

The Past is one man. A seemingly sad, unassuming man who strums and plucks a classical guitar and sings minimal lyrics rather forcefully. "M...

Post-punk pioneer Chandra showed up on stage with a band largely made up of young Toronto musicians and proceeded to perform a number of off...

On Freetown Sound, Dev Hynes, performing as Blood Orange, managed something most artists spend their entire careers chasing: he made a deepl...

Though he writes and records in styles ranging from metal to ambient to express his personality through music, Devin Townsend's live perform...

The title of East refers to the fact that this is the first album recorded by rootsy Juno-winning troubadour Justin Rutledge outside his hom...

Last November, during the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris, two benefit concerts were held at Le Trianon, featuring the likes of Thom Y...

Chris Shaw and Ty Segall are taking over rock. The duo already worked together this year on the brutally awesome GØGGS debut, and they reun...

It's assumed that with age comes maturation, the calming of crazed minds, the honing of hormones, settling, security and, finally, some focu...

On The Veil of Control, the seventh album from NYC based trio Dysrhythmia and their second release for Profound Lore Records, off-kilter tra...

Kirty is an indie folk singer-songwriter originally from Orillia, ON but now based in Toronto. Her 2012 debut featured melancholic country-t...

Insomnium are an anomaly in today's music landscape. Since forming in 1997 and releasing their first album in 2002, the band have yet to put...