New Chance

Turn and Face the Strange: Canadian Musicians Embrace Change Amid Industry Upheaval

PUBLISHED Jul 13, 2021

Since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit Canada in early 2020, it's far easier to list what's changed since then than what's the same, and the...

New Chance Returns with 'Real Time'

PUBLISHED May 26, 2021

Less than two years after Toronto experimental artist New Chance delivered the Hardly Working EP — one of Exclaim!'s Best EPs of 2019 — the...

Chandra Announces 'Chandra Mixtape Vol. 1'

PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2021

Decades after Chandra Oppenheim took the post-punk world by storm as a preteen, she's back in action with a new band composed of prolific T...

Long Winter Announces March Lineup with New Chance, Weak Hands, For Jane

PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2020

After wrapping up its February edition this past weekend, Toronto's wintertime music and arts festival Long Winter has revealed its March p...

Exclaim!'s 11 Best EPs of 2019

PUBLISHED Dec 18, 2019

As much as people like to talk about how streaming has caused the death of the album, the LP format still reigns supreme. After all, pretty...

New Chance

Hardly Working

PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2019

Toronto producer and vocalist New Chance (aka Victoria Cheong) explores dance music's past, shuffling effortlessly among stylistic cues wit...

Toronto's X Avant Festival Unveils 2019 Lineup

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2019

Toronto's acclaimed X Avant New Music Festival is set to return to the city this fall, and organizers from the Music Gallery have shared th...

New Chance

42 Jane Street, Guelph ON, July 15

PUBLISHED Jul 16, 2015

Victoria Cheong's recorded work as New Chance has a way of melding the organic and the mechanical. Ear Rationelle, New Chance's March-relea...