June 2021 Issue

8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in May 2021

PUBLISHED May 4, 2021

April showers (and the occasional snow flurry) bring May flowers, and these emerging Canadian artists' careers are also approaching full bl...

Weezer Aren't All That Heavy on 'Van Weezer,' and They're Better for It

PUBLISHED May 1, 2021

Weezer's hard rock and metal influences have long served as a cheeky counterpoint to their pop geekiness: they name-checked KISS on their f...

Status/Non-Status, Formerly WHOOP-Szo, Tells Complicated Stories of Indigeneity

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2021

After several years of amassing Canada-wide attention, Ontario rockers WHOOP-Szo delivered Warrior Down in 2019, an album steeped in sludge...

DijahSB's Heartfelt Words Are Making the Rap World — and Twitter — a Better Place

PUBLISHED Apr 26, 2021

If DijahSB's music won't make them a star, their Twitter presence might. The rapper is an absolute fiend on the polarizing social media pla...

Canadian Musicians Show Off Their Favourite Band T-Shirts

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Apr 14, 2021

"Stop wearing T-shirts of bands you don't listen to," some asshole wrote on a cardboard sign and then got 1.5 million likes on Instagram.Pe...

How Surreal Humour and the Internet Are Giving Acadian Musicians a Voice Across Canada

PUBLISHED Apr 13, 2021

For most English-speaking Canadians, Francophone music is synonymous with household names like Céline Dion and indie darlings like Coeur de...