Sleater-Kinney were pioneers of a mid-'90s Pacific Northwest rock movement, rising from the embers of riot grrrl and bursting forth with an...

As social media's influence continues to grow, so too does the potential for artists to seriously damage their reputation by posting somethi...

Laurel Canyon's musical shadow looms large; in the late '60s and early '70s, the neighbourhood in Los Angeles's Hollywood Hills was a haven...

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2015 was a spectacular year for women in aggressive music, and not in a babes-who-rock way. Along with defying the constraints applied to "w...

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Both fans and critics want artists to move forward, push boundaries and confound expectations with their music. When it works, the results a...

Producer Dave Cobb was the common thread running through some of the best country records of 2015 (and several of the year before too). A mi...

2015 was a great year for 1080p Records, which in turn has done a great deal for Canadian electronic music. This one-man-army label, led by...

From the moment Albert Einstein's theories were turned into bombs, a nuclear holocaust seemed inevitable; atomic anxiety was almost immediat...

"I haven't really played my guitar a lot in the last year," Beliefs guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Josh Korody says, perched on a chair...