The Dears' Murray Lightburn has re-emerged under his own name with his second solo release, the heart-on-sleeve meets classic songwriter rec...

Institutional respectability appears to have found, captured and enshrined Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. Well into the second decade of h...

The target of Sleaford Mods' disdain becomes clear as soon as vocalist Jason Williamson proclaims, "Graham Coxon looks like a left-wing Bori...

Since the release of his criminally overlooked debut in 2002, Moving Up Country, James Yorkston has always written music in reaction to his...

Santa Cruz, CA's Continuum offer up one hell of a crushing slab of technical death metal with their sophomore album, Designed Obsolescence....

It's not until the very last track on Amanda Rheaume's new LP, The Skin I'm In, that the promising songsmith truly lives up to the potential...

Twelve studio albums into her legendary career, Queen Chaka Khan hasn't lost her magic. But in an attempt to do it all, Hello Happiness lose...

With a bright light shining down on her, and hundreds of sets of eyes patiently gazing at the stage from all angles of the catwalk that wrap...

Arkells' tour stop in Toronto was a religious experience, with frontman Max Kerman declaring: "Tonight, Scotiabank Arena is the church of ro...

Through a veil of lo-fi production, the undeniable ring of Departure Chandelier's riffs speaks like dusty legends exhumed from the crypts of...

In the year since DIY Toronto DJ/promoter collective Forth debuted a label appendage to document and elevate the city's underground dance mu...