News Alfa Mist Returns with New Album 'Variables,' Shares Two New Songs Alfa Mist has shared details of a new album. The English musician and producer will share Variables on April 21 via ANTI-. Following 2021...
News Linda Ronstadt Gets Her "Running Up That Hill" Moment Thanks to 'The Last of Us' No spoilers, but did anyone else have a little cry watching the latest episode of The Last of Us? You're not alone, as is suggested by recen...
News Rebecca Black Plots 2023 North American Tour Ahead of next week's arrival of her debut album Let Her Burn, Rebecca Black has announced a North American tour to take place this May. The...
News Sled Island Gets Osees, Haviah Mighty, Helado Negro for First Wave of 2023 Artists Calgary's Sled Island Music & Arts Festival has announced its first wave of artists topping the 2023 edition, which was curated by Bartees S...
News The Weeknd, Avril Lavigne, Tate McRae Lead 2023 JUNO Awards Nominations It's that time again! The nominees for this year's JUNO Awards have been announced ahead of the 2023 awards show, which is set to take place...
News Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Hit Toronto on 2023 North American Tour Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are taking their 2021 collaborative effort Raise the Roof on the road. Following their international concerts...
News Alex Lahey Announces New Album 'The Answer Is Always Yes,' Plots North American Tour Alex Lahey is back with new music. The Australian alt-rocker has announced her new album The Answer Is Always Yes is set to be released on M...
News Ghostwrite Your Own Drake Lyrics with This AI Generator Did neither Her Loss nor Honestly, Nevermind do it for you? Is necklace of engagement rings-clad, luxury potty-gifting Drake just not feelin...
News Toronto's Masahiro Takahashi Announces 'Humid Sun,' Shares "Cloud Boat" Japanese composer Masahiro Takahashi moved to Toronto in 2020, and after previously signing to local label Telephone Explosion Records for a...
News The Soul Motivators Announce New Album 'Do It Together' After releasing new single "It Is What It Is" back in November ahead of the Do Right 20th anniversary party, Toronto's the Soul Motivators h...
News Fall Out Boy to Play Toronto on 2023 North American Tour with Bring Me the Horizon Sugar, it's going down: Fall Out Boy have announced a summer tour in support of their forthcoming new album So Much (for) Stardust. The Nort...
News Lil Wayne Announces Spring 2023 Tour, Plays Toronto Lil Wayne has announced a spring tour, including a lone Canadian stop in Toronto. The 28-date Welcome to tha Carter Tour will find the ra...
News Tim Baker Maps Out East Coast Tour Former Hey Rosetta! bandleader Tim Baker has mapped out a tour of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with support from Georgia Harmer. Having...
News Hayley Kiyoko Plots 2023 North American Tour Hayley Kiyoko has announced a 2023 North American tour supporting her sophomore album PANORAMA. The dates include a handful of Canadian stop...
News N NAO Announces New Album 'L'eau et les rêves,' Shares Single Naomie de Lorimier has announced a new album as N NAO. The Montreal singer-songwriter's sophomore full-length project L'eau et les rêves wil...
News Patti Smith Pens Moving Tribute to Tom Verlaine Over the weekend, we lost the force behind Television that was Tom Verlaine — news broken to the world by Patti Smith's daughter, Jesse Pari...
News Caroline Polachek Reveals Album Tracklist Featuring Grimes and Dido, Shares "Blood and Butter" No, it's not just capitalism — Valentine's Day really is just around the corner, and that means we're inching closer toward the release of C...
News afternoon bike ride Map Out First Tour Montreal's afternoon bike ride are gearing up to release their sophomore album glossover — one of our most anticipated Canadian releases of...
News Bonnie Raitt Extends Just Like That... Tour into Canada And just like that, Bonnie Raitt has extended her 2023 touring schedule to include 11 Canadian dates. In support of Dig in Deep follow-up Ju...
News Sparks Hit Toronto on 2023 World Tour Having announced plans for their new album The Girl Is Crying in Her Latte alongside their return to Island Records, brothers Ron and Russel...
News Lune très belle Announce New Album 'Ovale' Lune três belle have announced a new album. The collective headed by Montreal composer Frédérique Roy and rounded out by Bernice's Robin Dan...
News Nick Cave Says "Hatred Stopped Being Interesting" After the Death of His First Son There's a lot of range to the dispatches Nick Cave makes via The Red Hand Files, but they're all poignant. Following his beautiful eviscerat...
Streams Paste Share New Single "All That You Came For" Paste are continuing on their one-off single streak, this time sharing indie sleaze-tinged track "All That You Came For." Produced by lea...
Streams Rosalía Shares New Single "LLYLM" Rosalía has released a new single via Sony Music. The Spanish singer's latest, "LLYLM," follows December's remix of "Despechá" with Cardi B...
Streams Watch Coldplay Perform "Clocks" for the 20th Anniversary of 'Kimmel' Jimmy Kimmel gave us all déjà vu for Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s 20th anniversary, bringing back all of his first show's original guests for the oc...
Streams Vic Mensa Teams Up with Thundercat for Free-Falling "Strawberry Louis Vuitton" Vic Mensa has joined forces with bass virtuoso Thundercat and R&B vocalist Maeta for his first song of the year, "Strawberry Louis Vuitton,"...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Zoon, Haviah Mighty, Daniel Caesar, Zeina Not to open by talking about the weather, but it's finally starting to feel like we're getting over the hazy January greys. This week's best...
Streams Watch Alanis Morissette, Axl Rose and Billy Corgan Perform at Lisa Marie Presley's Memorial The life of Lisa Marie Presley was honoured at Graceland on Sunday (January 22), with many of her musical friends in attendance. The Memphis...
Streams Someone Covered Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' in the Style of 'Mario 64' It's-a me, Radiohead! Last year, we heard YouTube user on4word cover a few Radiohead songs in the style of N64; since then, they have contin...
Streams Ex-Fast Romantics Guitarist Kevin J. Black Teases Solo Debut with "Light Pollution" Kevin J. Black, the former lead guitarist of Toronto indie rockers Fast Romantics, has announced plans to go solo with a new EP. The artist...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: July Talk, Gayance, Mac DeMarco You wouldn't remember five easy hot dogs never before — so July Talk and Mac DeMarco are here to do it for you with their respective new alb...
Streams Eve Parker Finley Gets Musicians to Write a Song in 10 Minutes for New CBC Music Show Could you write a song in 10 minutes? Montreal-based musician and comedian Eve Parker Finley is challenging artists to do exactly that for a...
Streams Dizzy Return with New Single "Birthmark" Indie-pop quartet Dizzy have returned with new music. The Oshawa, ON-based band have released "Birthmark" alongside a new music video. Si...
Streams Watch Soccer Mommy's NPR Tiny Desk Concert After the pandemic postponed her original appearance at the NPR office, Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison is finally receiving her flowers with...
Streams Watch Jack White's Daughter Play Bass in Her Dad's Live Band The White Stripes famously didn't have a bassist — so it's rather ironic that singer-guitarist Jack White's daughter now plays bass, and ear...
Streams Watch Sudan Archives' Ethereal Performance on 'Fallon' Sudan Archives is the latest musical guest to appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, bringing Natural Brown Prom Queen cut "Homes...
Streams Watch Tony Hawk Perform "Superman" Live with Goldfinger Thanks to the inclusion of "Superman" in the first instalment of his top-selling video game franchise those many years ago, Tony Hawk and Go...
Streams Watch the Smile Tear It Up at KEXP Session After a triumphant 2022, the Smile are continuing to stay in our feeds this winter. Having recently rolled out a live album and a Tiny Desk...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Akintoye, U.S. Girls, Charmaine, Fucked Up We're glad you made it here. Did you walk underneath any ladders on your way? Did a black cat cross your path? The week's best new Canadi...
Streams Margo Price 'Strays' from the Country Rulebook to Write a Classic When encountering the long-philosophized two roads diverged in a yellow wood, there's an unquestioned knowledge that Margo Price will take t...
Streams Pierre Kwenders Drops Remix EP 'No No No' Polaris Music Prize-winner and 2022 year-end list topper Pierre Kwenders is further celebrating his highly celebrated LP José Louis and the...
Streams Vagabon Returns with New Song "Carpenter" Vagabon has returned with a new song. The artist born Lætitia Tamko has shared "Carpenter," which you can hear alongside a lyric video in th...
Streams Watch Alvvays Make Their Late-Night TV Debut on 'Fallon' with "Belinda Says" Alvvays made their late-night TV debut last night (January 10), performing "Belinda Says" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Back...
Streams Alvvays Have Céline Dion, Gordon Lightfoot and More in Their Bag at Amoeba Records Alvvays are the latest group to guest on Amoeba Records' What's in my Bag? video series, and they snagged a few of their favourite albums fo...
Reviews Young Fathers Are Bigger and Brighter Than Ever on 'Heavy Heavy' "I want your shield! I want your weapon!" shout Young Fathers on "I Saw," the confrontational and energetic single that encapsulates the mad...
Reviews Sam Smith Gets in Their Own Way on 'Gloria' Going into their fourth studio album, the bar for Sam Smith is pretty damn high. Exploding into popularity in 2014 with their debut contempo...
Reviews MorMor Illuminated the Dark in Montreal Theatre Fairmount, January 25 Hundreds of Montreal music fans pushed their way up the stairs into Theatre Fairmount on Wednesday night, eager to see MorMor (a.k.a. Seth N...
Reviews Fucked Up's 'One Day' Captures the Band at Their Most Urgent In the liner notes to 1986's The Hammer Party, a compilation album of early EPs from noise rockers Big Black, Steve Albini reflects on the c...
Reviews Bob Dylan's 'Bootleg Series Vol. 17' Reveals 'Time Out of Mind' as One of His Greatest Albums "You ever feel just like your brain's been bolted to the wall?" Bob Dylan half-screams on the first version of "Can't Wait," captured in Jan...
Reviews John Cale Is Still a Force on 'MERCY' The 17th studio album from Wales' reigning musical wizard — and his first in a decade — MERCY proves that, in his seventh decade of creation...
Reviews Sundance 2023: Little Richard Documentary 'I Am Everything' Doesn't Tell Viewers Everything Directed by Lisa Cortés Documentarians have a choice to make before they hit record: do we make a film that simply collates information and presents it as is, leavi...
Reviews Crosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue' To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To concl...
Reviews Samia Swings Big on the Sweet, Striving 'Honey' Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar altern...
Reviews The C.I.A. Work with Anxious Precision on 'Surgery Channel' If there were ever a record whose title lines up perfectly with the sonics found within, it's Surgery Channel. The sophomore record from Den...
Reviews Dan Mangan Held Toronto Rapt at Pindrop Acoustic Performance Longboat Hall, January 19 Dan Mangan's tender troubadour tunes have taken various forms over the years: warm 'n' cuddly folk (2009's Nice, Nice, Very Nice), cryptic a...
Reviews 'Ever Deadly' Is an Emotional, Engaging Portrait of Tanya Tagaq Directed by Tanya Tagaq and Chelsea McMullan Of all the ways to describe Tanya Tagaq, "fearless" may be the most appropriate. The Inuk throat singer has spent her entire life championin...
Reviews Mac DeMarco's 'Five Easy Hot Dogs' Has Chill Beats to Study/Relax To Back in 2017, Mac DeMarco led the Colbert band in a lavish, horn-filled rendition of "One Another," in which the velvet-voiced DeMarco sound...
Reviews Kali Malone's 'Does Spring Hide Its Joy' Is a Beacon of Possibility For Colorado native Kali Malone, finding the right tuning and harmony is a way of life. At 16, she met Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro at a Ne...
Reviews Atsuko Chiba Are Fluid and Furious on 'Water, It Feels Like It's Growing' Atsuko Chiba's latest album demands, but also harmoniously rewards, repeat listens. The Montreal five-piece's third full-length, Water, It F...
Reviews July Talk Look to the Future on 'Remember Never Before' Somehow, it's already been a decade since July Talk broke out with their self-titled debut LP. Dominated by bombastic bluesy-riffs and the c...
Reviews Belle and Sebastian Sound Best When They're Themselves on 'Late Developers' Belle and Sebastian have entered the workmanlike era of their career. They haven't released a truly essential album since 2006's The Life Pu...
Reviews Kendrick Lamar Brings Theatrical Ambition to His 'The Big Steppers Tour' Film Directed by Mike Carson and Dave Free At last year's Super Bowl Halftime Show, Kendrick Lamar was the odd one out. At the event, a success of hip-hop/R&B stars performed their bi...
Reviews Julia Wolf Is in Her Bildungsroman Bag on 'Good Thing We Stayed' The year was 2010. Drake released the Kanye co-write "Find Your Love" — a very obvious leftover from the cutting room floor of 808s and Hear...
Reviews Dry Cleaning Showed Toronto How the Sausage Is Made Phoenix Concert Theatre, January 11 UK indie's current infatuation with post-punk has led to a proliferation of British men yelling over jagged guitar riffs. So the arrival of...
Reviews Billy Nomates Survives the Drought on Steely-Eyed 'CACTI' On the cover of her sophomore record CACTI, Tor Maries, aka Billy Nomates, postures herself as such — a cactus with limbs bent askew, off-ba...
Reviews Rozi Plain's 'Prize' Is Full of Careful Thrills Some music is worth more than the sum of its parts. Rozi Plain's fifth album strips her synthetic folk style down to its bare essentials, re...