New Album Reviews Do Make Say Think, Land of Talk, Wavves, the Mountain Goats, Daniel Romano, She-Devils
Festival Reviews Terry Riley, Nate Wooley, Colin Stetson, Gunda Gottschalk and Ute Völker, Senyawa Hit Quebec's FIMAV
News Here Are the Winners of the 2017 Indigenous Music Awards Formerly known as the Aboriginal Peoples' Choice Music Awards, the newly titled Indigenous Music Awards took place at Winnipeg's Club Reg...
News Prince's Six Siblings Become Heirs to His Estate A Minnesota judge has ruled that Prince's six siblings are now the heirs to his estate worth around $200 million USD, the Associated Press ...
News Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Goes to Cannes Unmasked Never ones to stray too far from their iconic masks, catching Daft Punk in plainclothes is a rare occurrence. For those who attended the ope...
News Red Hot Chili Peppers Pay Tribute to Chris Cornell with "Seasons" Cover While tributes to the late Chris Cornell continue to pour in, Red Hot Chili Peppers have now offered their own parting gift to the fallen So...
News WayHome Will Honour Cancelled Pemberton Music Festival Tickets Yesterday (May 18), Ontario's WayHome Music & Arts Festival extended a helping hand to attendees of the Bahamas's disastrous Fyre Festival i...
News Jack White Pens White Stripes-inspired Children's Book Having already released some audio gear to introduce the great minds of tomorrow to the world of vinyl, Jack White is now set to release his...
News Chris Cornell's Family Questions Ruling That He Intentionally Committed Suicide The rock world was shocked with the news that grunge icon Chris Cornell had died suddenly Wednesday (May 17) night at the age of 52. Adding ...
News Burial Returns with 'Subtemple / Beachfires' Single Though a record store had a hand in leaking details behind his last 12-inch release, Burial has taken matters into his own hands in lifting ...
News Pemberton Music Festival Cancelled as Organizers File for Bankruptcy One of BC's biggest music events, the Pemberton Music Festival was expected to bring its enormous lineup to Pemberton, BC, this summer. Now,...
News PWR BTTM Issue New Statement Denying Sexual Assault Claims Before the release of their sophomore LP Pageant this month, buzzy DIY duo PWR BTTM had a band member accused of sexual assault, which led...
News Go to the Disastrous Fyre Festival? You Can Now Attend WayHome for Free The island-sized dumpster fire that was Fyre Festival was a concertgoer's worst nightmare, but for those who had their festival experience r...
News Silverstein Return with New 'Dead Reflection' Album Having delivered their first effort for New Damage in 2015 with I Am Alive in Everything I Touch, Silverstein have announced their next ful...
News Don't Worry, David Byrne Approved Selena Gomez's Talking Heads-sampling "Bad Liar" Selena Gomez shared her new single "Bad Liar" late yesterday (May 17), with many listeners remarking that the opening bass lick bears a stri...
News Peaches to Kick Off NXNE With North by Northeast returning to Toronto next month, organizers have revealed a launch show featuring beloved Canadian pop provocateur P...
News Vince Staples Shares Video for New "Big Fish" Single Vince Staples' new LP Big Fish Theory is set to wash ashore soon, but he's shared a song from the LP a little early in "Big Fish," which a...
News Toronto's Venus Fest Gets Emel Mathlouthi, Grouper, Weaves for Inaugural Edition Founded with "intent to foster community, inclusivity, unification, and feminist values" within Toronto's music and arts community, Venus Fe...
News Moncton's Mud City Meltdown Reveals 2017 Edition Coming back for a third edition, Mud City Meltdown will take over downtown Moncton, NB, this summer, promising its biggest event to date. As...
News Muse Return with "Dig Down" Nearly two years removed from delivering their Drones LP, Muse have returned with a new single called "Dig Down," which arrives alongside ...
News Chance the Rapper, the Shins and Pouzza Fest Lead This Week's Can't Miss Concerts With the weather becoming warmer and festival season right around the corner, this week's edition of Can't Miss Concerts, from May 18 to 24,...
News Run the Jewels Team Up with Danger Mouse and Big Boi for "Chase Me" No strangers to collaboration, Run the Jewels, Danger Mouse and Outkast's Big Boi have teamed up to deliver the new song "Chase Me." The ...
Streams Dan Auerbach "Waiting on a Song" (video) Black Keys dude Dan Auerbach is once again teasing his upcoming solo album Waiting on a Song, and this time it comes via a retro throwback v...
Streams The Maine "I Only Want to Talk to You" / "Taxi" (Acoustic) on No Future With major music chain HMV closing its Canadian stores distribution across the country with the red and white flag is looking a little, well...
Streams Big Sean "Sacrifices" (ft. Migos) (video) After visiting the virtual world in his last video for "Jump Out the Window," Big Sean hits the street on two wheels in a new clip for I DE...
Streams Blink-182 'California (Deluxe)' (album stream) Following an impressive amount of teaser tracks, Blink-182 have finally unleashed their expanded and deluxe version of California. As such, ...
Streams Amber Coffman "Nobody Knows" Following "All to Myself" and "No Coffee," former Dirty Projectors member Amber Coffman is once again showing off her upcoming solo album. T...
Streams Roger Waters "The Last Refugee" (video) With Roger Waters gearing up for his new Nigel Godrich-produced solo album Is This the Life We Really Want?, the Pink Floyd hero is once aga...
Streams Buddy & Kaytranada 'Ocean & Montana' (EP stream) Compton MC Buddy and Montreal-based producer Kaytranada announced plans to team up for the Ocean & Montana EP earlier this month, and now ...
Streams Kacy Hill "Like a Woman" (video) In building on her 2015 Bloo EP, G.O.O.D. Music vocalist Kacy Hill has now announced her first full-length for the label in Like a Woman....
Streams Phoenix "Ti Amo" (lyric video) Phoenix are set to return with Ti Amo at the top of next month, and before the record arrives, the band have shared its title track. T...
Streams Lil Yachty "X-Men" (ft. Evander Griiim) Lil Yachty is set to spill his Teenage Emotions later this month, and before the rapper's debut LP arrives, he's shared a new cut from the...
Streams Nas "Systematic" (prod. by DJ Shadow) (video) Nas and DJ Shadow teamed up last month to deliver a new song in "Systematic," which is set to appear on a soundtrack for comedy series Sili...
Streams Needles//Pins "All the Same" Vancouver punks Needles//Pins recently revealed plans for a new record called Good Night, Tomorrow, and today (May 17), they've unleashed a...
Streams The Flaming Lips "There Should Be Unicorns" (live video) In case you needed a reminder of just how crazy a Flaming Lips show is, Wayne Coyne and co. have shared a new live video for their song "The...
Streams Andy Shauf "Early to the Party" (video) Despite recently experiencing some serious tour woes, Andy Shauf is keeping The Party alive. Right now, his efforts come via a new music vid...
Streams Big Boi "Mic Jack" (ft. Adam Levine) (video) After delivering the audio last month, Big Boi has now treated his new Boomiverse single "Mic Jack" to a new video, complete with guest Adam...
Streams Sparks "What the Hell Is It This Time?" (video) With famed pop eccentrics Sparks due to give us their first new album in nearly a decade, Ron and Russell Mael are giving us another idea of...
Streams Rancid "Telegraph Ave" (video) Few punk bands age gracefully, so it's sort of shocking to hear just how great Rancid sound on their ninth LP Trouble Maker. Before the alb...
Streams Japandroids "Fire in the Western World" (Dead Moon cover) On the heels of announcing a new 7-inch and plotting a North American tour, Japandroids have shared one of the cuts from their upcoming rele...
Streams The Garrys 'Surf Manitou' (album premiere) Sisterly Saskatoon trio the Garrys gave us Warm Buds last year, and now they're keeping the retro sounds and good vibes going strong for a n...
Streams Do Make Say Think 'Stubborn Persistent Illusions' (album stream) Earlier this year, Do Make Say Think revealed plans for their first new album since 2009's Other Truths. Now, that wait is over and you can ...
Reviews Nate Wooley performing 'Seven Storey Mountain V' Colisée Desjardins, Victoriaville QC, May 20 The first two versions of "Seven Storey Mountain" by Brooklyn-based trumpeter, Nate Wooley, (which retains the same basic structure, but get...
Reviews Terry Riley / Gyan Riley Colisée Desjardins, Victoriaville QC, May 20 Terry Riley is one of the greatest composers of the last 100 years. His style is often called Minimalism, but earlier today (May 20), while ...
Reviews Gunda Gottschalk / Ute Völker performing 'Sky and Grassland' Carre 150, Victoriaville QC, May 20 Gunda Gottschalk is a violinist and Ute Völker is an accordionist, both of whom are based in Wuppertal, Germany. A few years ago they were ...
Reviews Senyawa Colisée Desjardins, Victoriaville QC, May 19 My knowledge of Indonesian music begins with Gamelan and ends with a couple of reissued psych records. All I knew about Senyawa is that they...
Reviews Linda Sharrock / Mia Zabelka / Mario Rechtern Carré 150, Victoriaville QC, May 19 Linda Sharrock is a legendary vocalist. In the late '60s and early '70s, usually in tandem with her then-husband, Sonny, Linda recorded some...
Reviews Robert Hood Paradygm Shift In the 23 years that he's been releasing music, Robert Hood's output is truly remarkable. Though it's only been four years since his last fu...
Reviews Dirty Windshields: The Best and Worst of the Smugglers Tour Diaries By Grant Lawrence Late in his new tour diary of his time with punk-rock party band the Smugglers, Grant Lawrence sums up their career thusly: "The Smugglers n...
Reviews !!! Shake the Shudder All the attention that is currently being paid to the early aughts New York rock scene has largely ignored !!!. The punctuation-obsessed ban...
Reviews Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 By Lizzy Goodman It's been over 15 years since the Strokes released their debut album Is This It, helping usher in the rock revival both in America and abroa...
Reviews Jessica Moss / Joni Void / Jason Sharp The Royal Cinema, Toronto ON, May 18 Boasting a trio of solo performances from artists on the Constellation Records roster, local event series Invocation took over the Art Moder...
Reviews Colin Stetson performing 'Sorrow' Coliseé A, Victoriaville QC, May 18 This was billed as Stetson leading an 11-piece band through his composition "Sorrow," but it opened with him doing a new solo piece for bari...
Reviews Bill Coleman & Gordon Monahan perform 'Dollhouse' Carré 150, Victoriaville QC, May 18 The first piece at this year's Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville (FIMAV) was a deeply collaborative and very weird...
Reviews Hooded Fang Dynasty House Things get decidedly darker on Dynasty House, the six-song sixth album from Toronto's Hooded Fang. Thematically, April Aliermo and Daniel Le...
Reviews She-Devils She-Devils There's a seductive charm to the eponymous debut album by Montreal duo She-Devils that permeates the entire record. As singer Audrey Ann Bou...
Reviews The Mountain Goats Goths Peter Hughes, longtime bassist of the Mountain Goats, describes the goth identity as one "most often associated with youth from a perspectiv...
Reviews Do Make Say Think Stubborn Persistent Illusions Ideas, especially creative ones, can be wild beasts, difficult to wrangle and control. They are born in our thoughts and intentions but ulti...
Reviews Higher Power Soul Structure Leeds unit Higher Power make a strong impression with this first LP, titled Soul Structure, tightening and adding more to the unique style t...
Reviews Employed to Serve The Warmth of a Dying Sun "I Spend My Days (Wishing Them Away)" and "Good For Nothing," the first singles released from Employed to Serve's sophomore LP The Warmth of...
Reviews Land of Talk Life After Youth "Yes you were, you were on my mind!" These are the first words Land of Talk's Liz Powell shares with us after seven years of silence. It'...
Reviews Daniel Romano Modern Pressure The restless and prolific Daniel Romano returns with Modern Pressure, his latest world-weary collection of poems, feelings and social commen...