News Montreal's Ev Bird Announces 'Puff Piece' EP, Shares New Single Montreal's Ev Bird has announced his debut EP for Royal Mountain Records, Puff Piece, is due to arrive on October 7. Alongside the news, the...
News Pogues Bassist Darryl Hunt Dies at 72 Darryl Hunt — the English musician and singer-songwriter known best as the bassist for Celtic punks the Pogues — has died. The band confirme...
News The Libertines' Drummer Calls Morrissey a "Wazzock" for Snubbing Him over Other Bandmates It's no secret that Morrissey isn't the peachiest person in the world, and as more and more controversies involving the former Smiths frontm...
News The Lemonheads Play Toronto on 'It's a Shame About Ray' 30th Anniversary Tour The Lemonheads celebrated 30 years of their fifth studio album It's a Shame About Ray in June, and after a deluxe reissue and a tour of Euro...
News Canadian Thrashers Razor Ready First New Album in 25 Years Razor have returned with details of their first studio album in 25 years. The Guelph-bred thrash metal outfit will deliver ninth studio LP C...
News Every Time I Die's Former Members Are in the Studio Upon the "inevitable" breakup of Every Time I Die earlier this year, members of the Buffalo hardcore institution not named Keith Buckley exp...
News Beyoncé to Join the Isley Brothers for Rework of "Make Me Say It Again Girl (Part 1 & 2)" Beyoncé just released her world-dominating, chart-topping — and Exclaim! 10/10 — seventh studio album RENAISSANCE last month, and since then...
News Toronto's Q107 and John Derringer Have "Agreed to Part Ways" Amid Allegations of Abuse Toronto radio station Q107 (CILQ-FM) has announced its split with John Derringer following allegations of abuse and gender-based discriminat...
News Toronto Supergroup UWUW Announce Self-Titled LP Debut, Share Lead Single Toronto's latest supergroup UWUW have announced their debut self-titled LP, sharing first single "Scattered Ashes" off of the upcoming proje...
News Pete Davidson Reportedly in Trauma Therapy Due to Kanye West's Harassment Saturday Night Live alum Pete Davidson took a lot of heat over the course of his nine-month relationship with Kim Kardashian, and now, he is...
News The Joel Plaskett Emergency Plot 2022 Canadian Fall Tour In support of April 2020 quadruple album 44, a sprawling box set of four 11-track albums, the Joel Plaskett Emergency are hitting the road w...
News King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Cancel UK and EU Tour Dates in Light of Stu Mackenzie's "Personal Health Crisis" Amid their plans to release three more albums this year, the wildly prolific psych rockers King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have announced t...
News D.O.A.'s Joe Keithley Campaigns for Reelection to Burnaby City Council Joe Keithley is punk legend, D.O.A. frontman, and current city councillor in the Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. Now, he's campaigning for reel...
News Blessed Announce Sophomore Album 'Circuitous,' Share Video for Lead Single Post-punk four-piece Blessed return today with a video for new single "Anything," the first taste of the band's forthcoming sophomore full-l...
News Jonathan Pappo of Hooded Fang, Ducks Ltd. and No Frills Announces 'Out of This World' New Album as Context, NA You know how drummers are — always in a million bands, as sturdy a backbone to their scene at-large as they are to the many people they play...
News Motown Legend Lamont Dozier Dead at 81 Lamont Dozier, the hitmaker who supplied Motown with innumerable pop classics in the 1960s as part of the production team Holland-Dozier-Hol...
News First Aid Kit Announce New Album 'Palomino' First Aid Kit have shared details of their upcoming fifth record. Arriving November 4 via Columbia, Palomino will be the duo's first record...
News Olivia Newton-John Dies at 73 Olivia Newton-John — the British-born, Australian-raised singer-songwriter and actress known best for her star turns in 1978 musical film Gr...
News RHCP's Anthony Kiedis Has a Very Different Account of What Happened at Woodstock '99 Woodstock '99 is back in the news cycle thanks to Netflix's new docuseries Trainwreck, which chronicles how the infamous festival descended...
News Teenage Head's Gord Lewis Found Dead in Homicide A man has been found dead in Hamilton, ON, and the body is reported to be that of Gord Lewis, guitarist of the classic Canadian punk group T...
News Allie X Responds to Allegations of Animal Abuse After Leaving Dog in Locked Car This past Saturday, Los Angeles-based actor and pop singer Simon Curtis posted a video to his Twitter account of someone he described as a "...
News GTA Music Festivals Were a Complete Disaster This Weekend You may have heard of the "Toronto concert curse" theory going around on TikTok. If anything is going to make you a believer, it's the event...
Streams Blondie Share Unearthed 1978 Demo "Mr. Sightseer" Blondie are set to release a box set collection — spanning their first six studio albums — called Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982 on Aug...
Streams Clairmont The Second Returns with New EP 'Full Circle' Clairmont The Second has delivered a new EP. You can hear the Toronto artist's fresh Full Circle in the player below. Arriving today via...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Kaytranada, Carly Rae Jepsen, dvsn Well folks, Lady Gaga is officially getting her Joker origin story — but we don't have to let it become ours. While Miss Gaga is putting on...
Streams The Killers Return to Utah on New Single "boy" Ahead of their globe-trotting arena tour — which kicks off in Vancouver later this month — the Killers have shared a glimpse of new music to...
Streams Meechy Darko Teams with A-Trak and Freddie Gibbs for "On GOD" Meechy Darko is due to indulge in Gothic Luxury on his debut album later this month, and before it arrives, the Flatbush Zombie has teamed u...
Streams St. Vincent Shares Groovy Cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" on 'Colbert' During her musical residency on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, St. Vincent snuck in a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" — rec...
Streams John Cale Shares David Bowie-Inspired New Single "Night Crawling" John Cale has shared a new video for "Night Crawling" — his first new single since 2020's "Lazy Day" — written about hanging out in New York...
Streams Kaytranada Drops Anderson .Paak Collaboration "Twin Flame" The boys are back together! After teaming up on 99% cut "Glowed Up" back in 2016, Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak have reunited on a new colla...
Streams Ducks Ltd. and Jane Inc Team Up on Cover of the Cure's "In Between Days" Ducks Ltd. have teamed up with fellow Toronto music maker Jane Inc — U.S. Girls member Carlyn Bezic, formerly of Ice Cream — to cover the Cu...
Streams Arcade Fire Cover Wolf Parade's "This Heart's on Fire" at Osheaga In the ultimate display of Montreal indie rock synergy, Arcade Fire covered Wolf Parade during a hometown show at Osheaga over the weekend....
Streams Vancouver's Amanda Sum Celebrates "Awkward Bodies" on New Single Vancouver songwriter Amanda Sum will release her album New Age Attitudes this September, and she has now shared a video for the track "Awkwa...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: U.S. Girls, TOBi, Fucked Up, Arkells feat. Lights July has nearly come and gone, which means it's almost "august," the month famously named after the Taylor Swift song. To get in the zone to...
Streams Whitney Share New Songs "BLUE" and "TWIRL" Chicago duo Whitney have shared two new songs from their upcoming fourth album SPARK — much like lead single "REAL LOVE," new tracks "TWIRL"...
Streams Arkells and Lights Join Forces on "Human Being" Your favourite local old-timey phone users (is anyone else suddenly missing the tactile delight of those spiral cords?) Arkells have plucked...
Streams Watch the Kaleidoscopic New Trailer for Brett Morgen's David Bowie Film 'Moonage Daydream' Back in May, we got our first official look at Brett Morgen's new David Bowie film — which, to be clear, is neither a documentary nor a biop...
Streams Jesse Northey Announces Cross-Canada Tour Ahead of releasing his upcoming album Onion Knight, Jesse Northey has announced that he'll be hitting the road with Chloe Doucet. The cross-...
Streams TOBi Releases Sammy SoSo-Produced Track "That's Alright" Nigerian-born, Toronto-based rising hip-hop star TOBi has shared new single "That's Alright," produced by Grammy-nominated beatmaker Sammy S...
Streams The Linda Lindas Cover "Tonite" by the Go-Go's In-demand young punk connoisseurs the Linda Lindas have shared a new cover of 1981 the Go-Go's single "Tonite" from Beauty and the Beat....
Streams Alex G Shares Animated Video for New Single "Cross the Sea" Alex G has shared the sweet, strangely moving video for new (equally sweet and strangely moving) single "Cross the Sea," the latest taste of...
Streams Palm Detail New Album 'Nicks and Grazes' Four years since they last released music, Palm are back to announce their upcoming album Nicks and Grazes — arriving October 14 via Saddle...
Streams Watch Joni Mitchell Play a Surprise Set at Newport Folk Festival and Absolutely Shred Festival goers at this year's edition of the long-running Newport Folk Fest were treated to an incredibly rare treat this weekend: a surpris...
Streams Jack White Sings Stan Rogers's "Barrett's Privateers" on 'Colbert' Ahead of releasing new album Entering Heaven Alive today, Jack White hit up Stephen Colbert's Late Show stage last night (July 21) to perfor...
Reviews On 'Reset,' Panda Bear and Sonic Boom Map New Paths with Old Sounds For over 20 years, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has been known primarily for his work with experimental indie act Animal Collective, anch...
Reviews Armand Hammer Engrossed Vancouver with Nothing but Their Beats and Rhymes Fortune Sound Club, August 7 Armand Hammer, the New York City hip-hop duo of Billy Woods and ELUCID, are having an incredible year — which is surprising, considering the...
Reviews Drake, Nicki and Wayne's Young Money Reunion in Toronto Was Worth the Wait, Despite Some Missing Pieces The Young Money reunion show in Toronto — as part of Drake's October World Weekend concert series, and co-starring Nicki Minaj and Lil Wayne...
Reviews Show Me the Body Showed Vancouver the Brutal Power of the Banjo Fortune Sound Club, August 4 Show Me the Body's appeal is nearly impossible to explain or categorize. The New York band, led by vocalist and banjoist Julian Cashwan Prat...
Reviews Marci Makes Pop Music Her Own Way on Her Sparkling Self-Titled Debut When Marta Cikojevic says she's making pop music, you have to understand the implied influence of Montreal on her view of the genre — the Qu...
Reviews 'Trainwreck: Woodstock '99' Is the Same as Last Year's Film, but Better Directed by Jamie Crawford In the mid-2000s, two movies about Truman Capote's In Cold Blood were released in quick succession: 2005's Capote and 2006's Infamous. The f...
Reviews Nutrients Find the Sublime in Common Things on 'Different Bridges' Toronto's Nutrients strike a magical sort of balance on their sophomore full-length Different Bridges, managing to be both cool as Paul Newm...
Reviews Two Decades Along, the Flatliners Are Still Taking On the World with 'New Ruin' Somehow, someway, the Flatliners are already celebrating 20 years as a band. It's a huge milestone for any group, but especially one that st...
Reviews Osheaga 2022 Brought the Best in the World to Montreal After last year's scaled-down, all-Canadian Get Together, Osheaga was back in full force for the first time since 2019. At the Montreal fest...
Reviews 'Shania Twain: Not Just a Girl' Is Just Another Music Doc Directed by Joss Crowley Shania Twain has led a fascinating life full of triumphant highs and some harrowing lows — but fans looking for the nitty gritty will want t...
Reviews Beyoncé's 'RENAISSANCE' Is Revolutionary From the moment Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE begins, Queen Bey herself tells you exactly who she is: "I'M THAT GIRL." For her seventh album, her le...
Reviews Drake and the All Canadian North Stars Pulled Out All the Stops to Honour Hip-Hop and R&B History OVO Fest seems like an insidious inside joke between Drake and the City of Toronto to see how many days each year they can convince Toronton...
Reviews The Perfect Day at River & Sky, the Hidden Gem of Ontario Music Festivals "Somebody told me when I arrived that it's magical in the night," said Dilly Dally vocalist-guitarist Enda Monks during their headlining set...
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Reviews Tallies Craft a Vision of Dream Pop All Their Own on 'Patina' Upon first impression, it would be easy to dismiss Tallies' sophomore album Patina for leaning a little too hard into early '90s 4AD cosplay...
Reviews Patrick Holland Finds a New Voice Under an Old Name on 'You're the Boss' Previously known as Project Pablo — purveyor of reliably solid, jazz-inflected ambient house tracks — Patrick Holland began releasing music...
Reviews SUUNS' Ben Shemie Swaps Cold Synths for Warm Strings on 'Desiderata' Since 2017, SUUNS leader Ben Shemie has been forging his own solo path, building on his band's experimental rock approach but with a deeper...
Reviews Hillside 2022 Warmed Hearts, Even During a Rainstorm Hillside returned to in-person programming for its 2022 edition with scorching, relentless heat and a festival-dismantling thunderstorm in t...
Reviews Kiwi Jr. Kept Ottawa Cool Amid a Scorching Summer Heatwave Club SAW, July 23 In what seemed to be a perpetually rescheduled Ottawa tour date (which, at one point, had them opening for '90s indie supergroup TUNS), Kiwi...
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Reviews WAKE Reimagine What Heavy Music Means on 'Thought Form Descent' WAKE have become an institution in Canadian heavy music. Starting out as an extremely raw grindcore band on 2014's False, then becoming a ps...
Reviews iskwē and Tom Wilson's 'Mother Love' Is a Stunning Exercise in Contrasts iskwē and Tom Wilson's debut collaborative album, Mother Love, is a glorious wealth of contradictions. It begins with Wilson's voice countin...