Mendelson Joe — the Canadian singer-songwriter, visual artist, and activist who was a fixture of Toronto's arts community for over four deca...

Between his pitching mound backflips and rabid Toronto Raptors fandom, there is no denying that Simu Liu is something of a high-level baller...

Django Django are back with new music. The UK four-piece have shared the first segment of their four-part album Off Planet, with the full 21...

Wares have announced a tour. The Alberta indie rock outfit have confirmed the dates of the Graceless Tour, which will take them across Weste...

After sharing early last month that they would return to action "soon," it's been reported that Foo Fighters will release a new album in Mar...

Leading up to the 2023 JUNO Awards in Edmonton on March 13, Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year nominees Cancer Bats have mapped out a tour o...

Squid delivered more than we could have hoped for in 2021 with their Exclaim!-favourite debut full-length album Bright Green Field, and now...

Mike and Nate Kinsella of beloved emo stalwarts American Football have announced their debut album as LIES. The self-titled record arrive...

Winnipeg's Tinge — led by Anishinaabe artist Veronica Blackhawk — have announced their debut EP Big Deep Sigh, arriving March 3 on House of...

As you may or may not know (and likely do not care), the 2023 Grammy Awards happened on Sunday (February 5) and we're still dealing with the...

Madonna has hit back against the "ageism and misogyny" of those criticizing her appearance at the 2023 Grammy Awards this past weekend. M...

After being forced to postpone the December leg of their 2022 tour due to drummer William Goldsmith sustaining an injury, Seattle's Sunny Da...

Remember when we thought Elon Musk's Twitter takeover would dissolve the platform in a matter of weeks? Well, it's still kicking — and witho...

New wave veterans Duran Duran have announced a North American tour. The group will be hitting the road throughout the spring and summer,...

Indigo De Souza has announced her follow-up album to 2021's Any Shape You Take. All of This Will End will arrive April 28 via Saddle Creek,...

Camp Cope are officially breaking up. The Australian band posted on Instagram yesterday (February 7), announcing a final show in their ho...

There's no other way to say it: Mark Mothersbaugh has truly gone wild with a pair of recent film score work, lending his musical mind to fil...

Yaya Bey has revealed details of a new EP. The Brooklyn singer-songwriter will share Exodus the North Star on March 24 via Big Dada. Exod...

Samiam have shared news of their first full-length in 12 years. The Oakland punk outfit will share new album Stowaway on March 31st via Pure...

Sharon Van Etten has announced an anniversary edition (it's the 11th anniversary rather than the 10th, but who's counting) of her beloved 20...

Ahead of an anniversary milestone for their sophomore album Meteora, Linkin Park have revealed a previously unheard song from the album's re...

Rihanna fans are finally leaving the trenches. Not only is the elusive billionaire headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show this Sunday (Febr...

Harrison is back with a pair of new singles. The Toronto-based producer and musician shared his first releases of the new year in "Float" wi...

Les Louanges — the moniker of Montreal singer-songwriter Vincent Roberge — has linked up with French rapper Ichon for new single "Sur la mél...

Edmonton dream pop band Verttigo have shared their debut single alongside an accompanying music video. "Autumn" is the lead single from the...

Seven years ago, Fleece's Matt Rogers and Ethan Soil (lovingly dubbed "red shirt guy" by YouTube comments noting his "golden retriever energ...

Singer-songwriter/DJ/producer Loig Morin has released a newly remastered version of "Tu m'avais pourtant dit" from his 2021 album Printemps,...

Keep your head up, your crown is falling! It's finally February, and amid the bleak mid-winter, Canadian artists are celebrating a fresh — a...

PinkPantheress has, in fact, been collaborating with Ice Spice. After the two young artists were spotted filming together in New York in Jan...

Vancouver alt-pop up-and-comer MAUVEY has joined forces with Lights on "We Had the Time of Our Lives Together," the latest single from an up...

Ducks Ltd. have released another cover in their series aptly titled The Sincerest Form of Flattery via Royal Mountain Records / Carpark Reco...

Paste are continuing on their one-off single streak, this time sharing indie sleaze-tinged track "All That You Came For." Produced by lea...

Rosalía has released a new single via Sony Music. The Spanish singer's latest, "LLYLM," follows December's remix of "Despechá" with Cardi B...

Jimmy Kimmel gave us all déjà vu for Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s 20th anniversary, bringing back all of his first show's original guests for the oc...

Vic Mensa has joined forces with bass virtuoso Thundercat and R&B vocalist Maeta for his first song of the year, "Strawberry Louis Vuitton,"...

Not to open by talking about the weather, but it's finally starting to feel like we're getting over the hazy January greys. This week's best...

The life of Lisa Marie Presley was honoured at Graceland on Sunday (January 22), with many of her musical friends in attendance. The Memphis...

It's-a me, Radiohead! Last year, we heard YouTube user on4word cover a few Radiohead songs in the style of N64; since then, they have contin...

Kevin J. Black, the former lead guitarist of Toronto indie rockers Fast Romantics, has announced plans to go solo with a new EP. The artist...

You wouldn't remember five easy hot dogs never before — so July Talk and Mac DeMarco are here to do it for you with their respective new alb...

Could you write a song in 10 minutes? Montreal-based musician and comedian Eve Parker Finley is challenging artists to do exactly that for a...

Indie-pop quartet Dizzy have returned with new music. The Oshawa, ON-based band have released "Birthmark" alongside a new music video. Si...

After the pandemic postponed her original appearance at the NPR office, Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison is finally receiving her flowers with...

The White Stripes famously didn't have a bassist — so it's rather ironic that singer-guitarist Jack White's daughter now plays bass, and ear...

Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, now in their second decade as Tennis, have built much of their identity around the slow and steady progressi...

FONTINE has quietly been a key player in the Manitoba folk scene for what feels like ages now. A natural collaborator, she's worked with an...

Having released their playful and collaborative self-titled debut in 2021, Montreal's afternoon bike ride glide along joyfully with glossove...

Following her 2019 sophomore album At the Party with My Brown Friends, Katherine Paul's latest missive as Black Belt Eagle Scout — the warm...

Janet Weiss — undisputed legend of the Pacific Northwest music scene, having notably played in the supergroup Wild Flag and on a couple of S...

John Frusciante's musical horizons have always been broader than what he's able to explore as the guitarist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Th...

From the very first moment of Vanille's sophomore LP, La clairière, you're immediately transported to a mystical and dreamlike forest. It's...

Probably no one had "Lil Yachty makes a fantastic psych rock record" on their 2023 bingo card, but here we are. Let's Start Here. is a hard...

"I want your shield! I want your weapon!" shout Young Fathers on "I Saw," the confrontational and energetic single that encapsulates the mad...

Going into their fourth studio album, the bar for Sam Smith is pretty damn high. Exploding into popularity in 2014 with their debut contempo...

Hundreds of Montreal music fans pushed their way up the stairs into Theatre Fairmount on Wednesday night, eager to see MorMor (a.k.a. Seth N...

In the liner notes to 1986's The Hammer Party, a compilation album of early EPs from noise rockers Big Black, Steve Albini reflects on the c...

"You ever feel just like your brain's been bolted to the wall?" Bob Dylan half-screams on the first version of "Can't Wait," captured in Jan...

The 17th studio album from Wales' reigning musical wizard — and his first in a decade — MERCY proves that, in his seventh decade of creation...

Documentarians have a choice to make before they hit record: do we make a film that simply collates information and presents it as is, leavi...

To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To concl...

Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar altern...

If there were ever a record whose title lines up perfectly with the sonics found within, it's Surgery Channel. The sophomore record from Den...

Dan Mangan's tender troubadour tunes have taken various forms over the years: warm 'n' cuddly folk (2009's Nice, Nice, Very Nice), cryptic a...

Of all the ways to describe Tanya Tagaq, "fearless" may be the most appropriate. The Inuk throat singer has spent her entire life championin...

Back in 2017, Mac DeMarco led the Colbert band in a lavish, horn-filled rendition of "One Another," in which the velvet-voiced DeMarco sound...

For Colorado native Kali Malone, finding the right tuning and harmony is a way of life. At 16, she met Swedish composer Ellen Arkbro at a Ne...