Picastro

Picastro Cover Velvet Underground, Elfin Saddle, the Silt on 'I've Never Met a Stranger' Covers EP

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2021

Picastro may go down in history as Toronto's best-known secret. The ever-morphing folk-rock brainchild of Liz Hysen has steadily delivered...

Great Lake Swimmers Release Split 7-inch with Picastro

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2020

Before they embark on a joint acoustic tour of the U.K. and Europe together later this month, Great Lake Swimmers' Tony Dekker and Picastro...

Toronto's Women from Space Festival Reveals 2020 Lineup

PUBLISHED Jan 29, 2020

Toronto's Women from Space festival is set to return for its sophomore year, and organizers have now lifted the curtain on the complete lin...

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Exit

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2019

On their newest album, and first in five years, Picastro have subverted folk and popular music expectations.  Led by songwriter, guitarist...

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'You' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2014

Long-running Toronto outfit Picastro previously gave us a taste of their album You, and now they've shared the entire thing ahead of its Ma...

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"State Man"

PUBLISHED Sep 23, 2013

Toronto's Picastro have been going strong since the '90s, and the band have a new album in the works. The collection is called You, and you...

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Toronto, ON February 13

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2010

While maintaining their penchant for morosely rendered songs, there was a particular power to Picastro's performance. Maybe it was the fact...

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Become Secret

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2009

Citing Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic tome, The Road, as inspiration, Picastro conjure an appropriately haunting audio landscape with B...