Anniversary
'Road Apples' at 30: The Moment the Tragically Hip Became CanRock Legends
PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2021
The Tragically Hip's second album Road Apples, named for horse droppings, is anything but. Having recorded 1989's Up to Here in Memphis, th...
Remembering September 24, 1991, the Day Underground Music Hit the Mainstream
PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2021
"Teenage angst has paid off well, now I'm bored and old." These lyrics that open Nirvana's 1993 swansong, In Utero, may have sounded, to th...
"I Won't Be the Same No More": Handsome Furs' Career-Defining 'Sound Kapital' Turns 10
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2021
"When I get back home / I won't be the same no more." And he wasn't. When Dan Boeckner sang those lines in the opening bars of Handsome Fu...
'Billy Talent II,' the Crowning Achievement from the Unfairly Maligned Alt-Rockers, Turns 15
PUBLISHED Jun 24, 2021
When Billy Talent achieved CanCon fame in 2003, they had finally found a formula that worked for them. The Mississauga band had toiled away...
Living with Lions' 'Holy Shit' — and Canadian Music's Stinkiest Controversy — Turns 10
PUBLISHED May 13, 2021
They knew it was stupid. Of course it was stupid. Generally speaking, an adult who draws a cartoon of a human turd — any turd, really — kno...
'House of Balloons' Turns 10: How the Weeknd Beat the Odds and Turned R&B on Its Head
PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2021
In the late '00s, R&B had a certain gloss. Neo-soul's grip on the soundscape had loosened, trading soulful earthiness for upbeat, synth-inf...
Tokyo Police Club Look Back on 'Champ': "It Was Our Big Swing"
PUBLISHED Feb 22, 2021
With Champ, Tokyo Police Club were calling their shot. After a hotly buzzed EP in 2006's A Lesson in Crime and a momentum-carrying debut a...
'Trompe-l'œil' Turns 15: How Malajube (Almost) Broke the Language Barrier
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2021
Malajube's Trompe-l'œil fits right in with many other indie rock records that came out of Montreal in the mid-'00s. It takes the elements o...
