La Force

Big Red Machine Get Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten for New Album

PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2021

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and the National's Aaron Dessner have announced their second album as Big Red Machine. The pair will share How Lon...

A Look Back at This Summer's Socially Distanced Concerts Across Canada

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2020

The Canadian concert industry has never seen a year like 2020. But even though the cross-country tours and massive festivals we usually enj...

Jeremy Dutcher, La Force and More Added to Pop Montreal's In-Person Performance Lineup

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2020

Pop Montreal is set to be one of the few music festivals to host in-person events this year. Last month, festival organizers announced thei...

Fet.Nat, La Force, Atsuko Chiba and More Blow Minds at Day Three of FME

FME, Rouyn-Noranda QC, August 31

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2019

La Force's Ariel Engle eased festivalgoers into Festival de musique émergente's third night (August 31) with a soft, subtle and beautiful s...

Here's the 2019 Polaris Music Prize Long List

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2019

The Polaris Music Prize will once again be awarded to the best Canadian album, and the long list of contenders has just been announced. Am...

CMW Reveals Full 2019 Lineup

PUBLISHED Apr 17, 2019

Ahead of kicking off Canadian Music Week's 2019 edition next month, festival organizers have officially announced the event's full lineup....

Broken Social Scene's Ariel Engle Regrets Working on Morrissey's Covers Album

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2019

This spring, controversial indie-pop daddy Morrissey will release a covers album called California Son. While the former Smiths frontman ha...

La Force Draws From Broken Social Scene, AroarA and Arabic Singing for Her Self-Titled Debut

PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2018

"I remember the crisis in my early 20s of feeling like I didn't have a voice, like a guitarist with her guitar tone," Ariel Engle tells Exc...