With a genuine radio hit under their belts, the alt-retro riff-rockers were quite ready to give a spirited performance. Extensive touring in...

Practitioners of an all-too common brand of melodic screamo, but unlike so many of their peers, they've obviously spent time developing new...

This dapper and quirky Toronto outfit brings three guitarists to the stage and puts them all to good use. An odd hybrid of post punk agit-po...

I haven't been so blown away by a live set from a chick-fronted band since I caught an early No Doubt set back in the day. So succexxxy voca...

London's answer to Boysetsfire weren't about to let a less than packed house dampen their spirits. The quintet's high-energy melodic screamo...

For the sceptics who keep waiting for the godfathers of melodic hardcore to lose their way again (as happened in the mid- to late ’90s), you...

Back from nowhere comes this Boston trio that at one time in the mid-’90s were poised to become the next big thing. After being mentor...

Having shed most of the baggage of his former band the Marato, vocalist/guitarist Jonathan Pearce redefines his acoustic solo project into a...

Hailing form Barcelona, the Spanish Chemical Brothers (Los Hermanos Química?) augment their live sets with the addition of a third member. L...

It’s been about a dozen years since these bombastic Belfast bashers last graced Canadian shores and they come back for a 45-minute fes...

The globetrotting Canuck lands back in friendly surroundings with a new band to flesh out his off-kilter pop rock offerings. Stripped bare o...

Sadly for San Antonio-based Snowbyrd (which is made up of neither Anne Murray fans nor Canadians who winter in Florida), only about three pe...

Every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed band and this Toronto quartet was nothing if not fashionable. Vocalist Ben Hutchinson looks like a...

The band formerly known as Scratching Post re-brands and strikes back with a renewed sense of purpose. The songwriting tandem of Mark Holman...

Anyone who attended the festival and missed this Edmonton collective's late night set should kick themselves long and hard. The robotic-voic...

Of all the formulaic rock acts that dotted the fest, this BC quartet may have been the most shameless. Musically tight but unimaginative, th...

Even border troubles that nearly saw them lose their merch couldn't mute the pummelling Palm Desert-inspired chug and groove riff rock offer...

This NYC power trio sits somewhere between the alterna rock groove of Muse and the sludgy grunge of the Melvins (the singer even has a Buzz-...

Don't let the fact their name comes from a Pixies song ("Monkey Gone to Heaven”) or the fact that three-quarters of this Binghamton, NY band...

Once one of the hardest working and most enduring indie bands in the country, Saskatoon's Junior Pantherz played what would turn out to be t...