One of this city's superstar DJs, Misstress Barbara specializes in big beats for the masses, and with her three-piece band Girls on a Ducati...

One-time leader of the fringe punk pop band Caféïne, Xavier Caféïne hasn't exactly switched to decaf, but following...

Roughly a decade after founding electro pop band Echo Kitty, producer/singer/songwriter/keyboardist Xavier Paradis has honed and toned down...

For those immune to the bomp of their sophomore record Family, Think About Life's unhinged and endearing live set may leave you as delirious...

It's difficult to tell whether Toronto's Rural Alberta Advantage are gunning for indie cred, pop stardom or tour support for Blue Rodeo. Wit...

Remember this band next time you play six degrees of Arcade Fire - their occasional French horn player Pietro Amato (also of Torngat and Arc...

Still kicking after 13 years behind the mics, monitors and traps, Yo La Tengo started off sweetly with a semi-acoustic "Our Way to Fall" bef...

Mortality is a recurring theme for Amy Millan (Stars, Broken Social Scene), alongside matters of the heart and the liver, so it was fitting...

Over two days of rain and shine, the fourth annual Osheaga festival kicked off on Ύle Sainte-Hélène to become one of the most successful ed...

Best performance: Samantha Fox. Sculpted and squeezed into black glitter, sporty neon and bedazzled leather, Ms. Fox was pro, through and th...

"It's not getting any easier," says Malajube's keyboardist, Thomas Augustin, about the band's four-way songwriting style. "We're more effici...

Wherein 21 bands play 25-minute sets for crowds of musicians, the masses and heavily wined and dined international delegates (journalists, b...

New Zealand’s Delaney Davidson was a no-show, so local youngsters Buddy McNeil & the Magic Mirrors were left to support Miss Golightly all o...

"That’s what the studio looks like in my mind,” says Wolf Parade’s Dan Boeckner, only semi-facetiously. He’s referring to the cover art for...

"I write music for Snailhouse,” says Mike Feuerstack, "and I have to learn lots of music ’cause I play guitar with other people” — namely Be...

From religious martyrs to reality TV, from rubbernecking at accident sites to building celebrity death shrines, our attraction to other peop...

Flamboyantly adorned with glitter, platinum hair and an antique military jacket, London’s Patrick Wolf played to a room of screaming girls,...

This band of Toronto journalists, led by Eye Weekly editor Stuart Berman, played to a thin crowd on Pop’s second night, but that didn’t stop...

The festival’s unofficial opening show, publicised largely through word of mouth, featured local octet A Silver Mt. Zion backing NYC legend...

The first of two shows by this BC band was a fairly thankless gig, being early in the night and unannounced in the Pop program — they replac...