For its 12th year, the Music Gallery's flagship X Avant festival is returning with a lineup befittingly curated under the broad theme of "re...

Beck has long been lauded as a shape-shifting musical chameleon, but even transcendent, genre-hopping geniuses hit a wall at some point — ...

The sounds of husband and wife duo Moon Eyed, aka Simon Letourneau and Elizabeth-Jane Bitze, transport the playfulness of 1960s psych-popper...

With deceptively unassuming, methodical precision, kj conjures delicate, beautifully hazy ambient soundscapes awash in memorable minutiae fo...

It was several years in the making, but early 2017 saw the release of Valerie Teicher's debut album as Tei Shi, Crawl Space. With it came th...

Robert Plant has conducted himself with more integrity and class than just about any other legacy rock star around. Regularly fending off ob...

With no support act, Cigarettes After Sex came out on stage orderly and wordless, quietly poised to make the night solely their own as they ...

Vancouver's the Pack A.D. have chemistry for days. Drummer Maya Miller and singer/guitarist Becky Black have been a band for over 10 years, ...

The latest LP from Newmarket pop-rockers the Elwins is both exploratory and poppy at the same time. Sounding equal parts like Tokyo Police C...

Not four months after releasing his third full-length, Ruinism, Lapalux (aka Stuart Howard) has forgone rest and has returned with a new EP,...

Torture Culture marks the long-awaited return of revered Toronto hardcore outfit No Warning, being the first full-length release from the ba...

When I first heard "Every Little Thing," the debut single from Carly Pearce's debut album of the same name, I thought it was gorgeous, and w...

If Gloam's previous LP, 2015's Hex of Nine Heads, suggested the path they might tread, this tantalizing EP confirms it, acting as a waypoint...

Spain's Altarage have returned from the dismal pit they mine for their harrowing sound with Endinghent, an all-consuming cloud of sonic ash ...

On their first full-length offering to the outer gods, Eroded Corridors of Unbeing, Spectral Voice have created a monolith of death doom gra...

Paul Woolford found prominence in 2013 under the alias Special Request with his critically acclaimed by criminally underheard debut LP, Soul...

For over a decade, the Rural Alberta Advantage have quietly built themselves one of the most rabid and passionate fan-bases in Canada. Since...

The Front Bottoms' move to Fueled by Ramen Records in 2015 for the release of Back on Top marked a huge leap forward for the band; the hooks...

The Underachievers have two gears in a live setting: turnt and lit. Take your pick.   Following calmly received pre-10 p.m. opening sets ...

Roger Waters' titanic "Us + Them" production docked at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa Tuesday night (October 10), and brought with it al...