In a world where irony and post-irony swirl around, it can often be confusing whether or not "bad" things are actually bad, or if they were...

Manic Street Preachers have detailed a new studio album. The Ultra Vivid Lament, the band's 14th studio effort, arrives September 3 via Colu...

If you were one of those unlucky Mars Volta fans who missed out on their quickly sold-out box set La Realidad de Los Sueños, we have good ne...

When they're not the backing band for Neil Young or Jackson Maine, Willie Nelson's son Lukas Nelson and his band Promise of the Real maintai...

Alice Cooper has rediscovered an Andy Warhol silkscreen in his garage and is now planning to auction the item off. Warhol's 1964 "Little...

Martha Wainwright has announced her latest full-album statement. Today the Montreal songwriter has revealed Love Will Be Reborn — her new re...

Leon Bridges has detailed his third studio album Gold-Diggers Sound. The 11-song effort arrives July 23 via Columbia. Gold-Diggers Sound ...

Tito, Marlon and Jackie Jackson have reacted to Justin Timberlake's public apology to their sister Janet Jackson over their shared 2004 Supe...

After learning that Andrew W.K. and Kat Dennings made their romance Instagram official last week, the couple have revealed that they're now...

Adding to his collection of Kardashian-themed tattoos, Blink-182's Travis Barker has added another tribute to his girlfriend Kourtney on his...

The Tragically Hip will perform with Feist as part of the 2021 Juno Awards, marking the first performance from the beloved group since front...

Blackie Dammett — an actor, reported drug dealer to the stars, and the father of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis — has died. He...

Remember that $500 million, 7,000-seat waterfront venue Toronto was supposed to get? Well, its designers may find themselves back at the dra...

Ted Nugent is back with another rant — and for once it's not centred around COVID conspiracies. This time, he's defending the "great entrepr...

Garage rock lifers Shannon and the Clams have announced plans to release their sixth full-length album Year of the Spider. The record will a...

Pervis Staples — co-founder of gospel legends the Staple Singers — has died. News broke today that Staples passed away earlier this month on...

There's plenty of hype bubbling up for Knives Out 2, which is probably a good idea since Netflix doled out a reported $400 million USD for t...

Bob Dylan is set to be honoured with his very own museum. While in the works for some time, the Bob Dylan Center announced today that it wil...

All Our Sound is a new radio station streaming exclusively on Sonos Radio. In partnership with the Juno Awards — in celebration of the event...

Ahead of releasing new album Black to the Future this Friday, Sons of Kemet have mapped out a 2022 tour behind the effort with three dates i...

Gaspard Augé — best known as one half of Justice — is releasing a solo album. His debut is called Escapades, and it will arrive on June 25 v...

Vancouver indie rockers the Zolas have announced the release of their new album, Come Back to Life, due out July 16 via Light Organ Records....

Spring has sprung, and homegrown music is blossoming everywhere you look. This week's playlist has brand new tracks from mainstays and ne...

Today is release day for the Beaches, who just put out their new EP Future Lovers. To celebrate a bit, the Toronto band have now given us a...

Migos have shared their first single of 2021. "Straightenin" arrives today alongside a video from Keemotion you can take in below. "Strai...

Before hitting the road with Japanese Breakfast later this year, Toronto's resident dream-popster Luna Li — a.k.a. Hannah Kim — has released...

Last night, Nicki Minaj put her classic 2009 mixtape Beam Me Up Scotty on streaming services for the first time. Along with it, she delivere...

After announcing its arrival last week, J. Cole has released new album The Off-Season. You can stream the 12-track effort below. The Off-...

While we still don't have a new U2 album to consume in 2021, Bono and the Edge have emerged with a new song. It's called "We Are the People,...

"Sad in Toronto" is Lia Pappas-Kemps' melancholy realization that sadness can't be outrun. A family affair, the Anne with an E actor's new s...

Vancouver singer-songwriter Titus Bank has released his debut single. "I Do Yeah" is available to stream now through Everything Forever, the...

Once again, Skrillex is back with another new track. This one is called "Too Bizarre," and it comes featuring Swae Lee and Siiickbrain. "...

It's almost hard to articulate all of the ways that the Offspring have managed to plumb the depths of bad taste despite their solid reputati...

Koreless has returned with his first new music in over five years. The Welsh producer born Lewis Roberts has shared "Black Rainbow" and "Moo...

Edgar Wright has paid tribute to the cult art pop act Sparks with a new film called The Sparks Brothers. We've already seen the doc, and it'...

It's been half a decade since since Islands released their double-header of Should I Remain Here at Sea? and Taste, but that's about to chan...

For a man who rocks as hard as he does, it sure is funny how terrible Bon Jovi is capable of being live. You may recall that he pissed every...

BROS — the side-project of Sheepdogs dudes Ewan and Shamus Currie — have returned with a new song. In fact, it's their very own theme song c...

Montreal singer-songwriter Laraw's inner demons take aim in the new video for her single "This Is How I Lost My Friends." No, literally: thr...

Liz Phair has been teasing her new album Soberish for a long time, but she finally gave the damn thing a release date last month. Now, she's...

Two months before COVID lockdowns ruined everyone's touring plans, Kiwi Jr. had high hopes for taking their new material on the road. The so...

In 2019, it was confirmed that the Kurupt FM crew would make a move from their Brentford, West London HQ to the big screen, and we now have...

Last month, The Simpsons delivered a pointed parody of Morrissey, hiring Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the frontman of a fake version of the...

DJ Khaled's annual pile of mainstream slop is always good for at least one great Justin Bieber song, and this year's Khaled Khaled is no dif...

Among the host of revelatory punk documentaries to emerge in recent years, Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement stands out as a truly...

Lary Kidd's signature adlib "Jeune homme!" speaks to the young rapper's career start as a founding member of formidable Quebec trio Loud Lar...

The word "detritus" evokes disintegration, debris and things wearing away. Sarah Neufeld's Detritus works through its own process of renewal...

In many respects, jazz has acted as a vehicle in which musicians can draw from a vast well of historical and contextual memory, transforming...

Written during and about the pandemic (with the added stress of a 10-month recovery from an unrelated health flare-up), fanclubwallet's debu...

It's jarring to see the Horseshoe Tavern completely empty. Well, almost: majority-owner Jeff Cohen pulls up a stool onstage for his intervie...

Escape from Planet Devours was born from a nervous breakdown. Jeff Cancade, a.k.a. Vancouver electro-pop gaylien Devours, spent the pandemic...

The Beaches are back with their defiant pop-rock sound on the Future Lovers EP. Two years after the release of their last EP, The Profession...

When a person dies, loved ones are often told to remember how they lived. Think of the times they were vibrant and carefree and in his eleme...

No one else is doing it quite like TEKE::TEKE. The Montreal-based psych septet became known internationally on the backs of their fearsome l...

During their 20-plus years as a band, Fucked Up have never shied away from taking chances and stepping outside of whatever box critics and f...

Annie Clark has become a modern guitar hero precisely for the fact that half the time, you'd hardly know she was playing guitar. From the bl...

Some people devote their lives to science, pioneering the sustainable energy sources that could allow humanity to alter the disastrous traje...

Micah Brown evokes the days of college rock and Midwest emo throughout Swell, the Montreal-based singer-songwriter's debut album as Pillea....

Century Egg's Little Piece of Hair is a joyful rebellion for those trapped in their minds. With most people confined to their homes, too, th...

Paul Jacobs, Montreal's garage-psych one-man-band (and drummer of arty post-punks Pottery), delivers just the right amount of dopamine on Pi...

Many bands have been compared to Joy Division over the years, but Copenhagen's Iceage have been the closest to ever capturing their essence....

Sam Tudor's last record, 2017's Quotidian Dream, opened with a tense creep — jumpy fingerpicked guitar swarmed by strings and horns, the shi...

Dorothea Paas could probably write a real banger if she wanted to. That much becomes clear on "Closer to Mine," one of many standout tracks...

Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson could easily be dry. This is, after all, a music producer making a show about music production, and he talk...

Two days after the release of his last record, The Ascension, Sufjan Stevens' father died. That was the impetus behind the composite monolit...

DJ Khaled albums are like Michael Bay movies, as many have noted over the years. Familiar and fun. Loud and glossy. Predictable in their rel...