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News Cancer Bats Announce 2023 Alberta Tour 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...
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News American Football Offshoot LIES Announce Debut Album Mike and Nate Kinsella of beloved emo stalwarts American Football have announced their debut album as LIES. The self-titled record arrive...
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News Church of Satan Responds to Sam Smith and Kim Petras's "Unholy" Grammys Performance 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...
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News Samiam Detail First New Album in 12 Years 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...
News Sharon Van Etten Announces 'Tramp' Anniversary Edition, Shares Shelved "Serpents" Video 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...
News Linkin Park Tease Release of "Never-Before-Heard" 2003 Song "Lost" Ahead of an anniversary milestone for their sophomore album Meteora, Linkin Park have revealed a previously unheard song from the album's re...
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Streams Harrison Drops "Float" and "View from the Sky" 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...
Streams Les Louanges Is Back "Sur la mélodie" with New Single Les Louanges — the moniker of Montreal singer-songwriter Vincent Roberge — has linked up with French rapper Ichon for new single "Sur la mél...
Streams Edmonton's Verttigo Share Debut Single "Autumn" Edmonton dream pop band Verttigo have shared their debut single alongside an accompanying music video. "Autumn" is the lead single from the...
Streams Watch Fleece's Matt Rogers Write a Song About Universal Healthcare in 10 Minutes Seven years ago, Fleece's Matt Rogers and Ethan Soil (lovingly dubbed "red shirt guy" by YouTube comments noting his "golden retriever energ...
Streams Vancouver's Loig Morin Reimagines "Tu m'avais pourtant dit" Live at the Columbia Theatre Singer-songwriter/DJ/producer Loig Morin has released a newly remastered version of "Tu m'avais pourtant dit" from his 2021 album Printemps,...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Crown Lands, Lights and MAUVEY, the Rural Alberta Advantage, Shania Twain 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...
Streams Ice Spice Brings the Energy on "Boy's a liar Pt. 2" with PinkPantheress PinkPantheress has, in fact, been collaborating with Ice Spice. After the two young artists were spotted filming together in New York in Jan...
Streams Lights Joins MAUVEY on New Single "We Had the Time of Our Lives Together" 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...
Streams Ducks Ltd., Mo Troper and Ratboys' Julia Steiner Rework "Invitation" by the Feelies Ducks Ltd. have released another cover in their series aptly titled The Sincerest Form of Flattery via Royal Mountain Records / Carpark Reco...
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Streams Rosalía Shares New Single "LLYLM" Rosalía has released a new single via Sony Music. The Spanish singer's latest, "LLYLM," follows December's remix of "Despechá" with Cardi B...
Streams Watch Coldplay Perform "Clocks" for the 20th Anniversary of 'Kimmel' 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...
Streams Vic Mensa Teams Up with Thundercat for Free-Falling "Strawberry Louis Vuitton" Vic Mensa has joined forces with bass virtuoso Thundercat and R&B vocalist Maeta for his first song of the year, "Strawberry Louis Vuitton,"...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Zoon, Haviah Mighty, Daniel Caesar, Zeina 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...
Streams Watch Alanis Morissette, Axl Rose and Billy Corgan Perform at Lisa Marie Presley's Memorial The life of Lisa Marie Presley was honoured at Graceland on Sunday (January 22), with many of her musical friends in attendance. The Memphis...
Streams Someone Covered Radiohead's 'In Rainbows' in the Style of 'Mario 64' 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...
Streams Ex-Fast Romantics Guitarist Kevin J. Black Teases Solo Debut with "Light Pollution" 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...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: July Talk, Gayance, Mac DeMarco 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...
Streams Eve Parker Finley Gets Musicians to Write a Song in 10 Minutes for New CBC Music Show 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...
Streams Dizzy Return with New Single "Birthmark" Indie-pop quartet Dizzy have returned with new music. The Oshawa, ON-based band have released "Birthmark" alongside a new music video. Si...
Streams Watch Soccer Mommy's NPR Tiny Desk Concert After the pandemic postponed her original appearance at the NPR office, Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison is finally receiving her flowers with...
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Reviews FONTINE Introduces Herself on the Enchanting 'Yarrow Lover' EP 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...
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Reviews Black Belt Eagle Scout Traverses Difficult Emotional Terrain on 'The Land, the Water, the Sky' Following her 2019 sophomore album At the Party with My Brown Friends, Katherine Paul's latest missive as Black Belt Eagle Scout — the warm...
Reviews Quasi's 'Breaking the Balls of History' Delivers a Swift Kick in the Nuts Janet Weiss — undisputed legend of the Pacific Northwest music scene, having notably played in the supergroup Wild Flag and on a couple of S...
Reviews John Frusciante's ': I I .' Is the Opposite of the Red Hot Chili Peppers 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...
Reviews Vanille Is Your Guide to Another World on the Lovely 'La clairière' From the very first moment of Vanille's sophomore LP, La clairière, you're immediately transported to a mystical and dreamlike forest. It's...
Reviews Lil Yachty's Psych Rock Enthusiasm Is Contagious on 'Let's Start Here.' 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...
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Reviews MorMor Illuminated the Dark in Montreal Theatre Fairmount, January 25 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...
Reviews Fucked Up's 'One Day' Captures the Band at Their Most Urgent 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...
Reviews Bob Dylan's 'Bootleg Series Vol. 17' Reveals 'Time Out of Mind' as One of His Greatest Albums "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...
Reviews John Cale Is Still a Force on 'MERCY' The 17th studio album from Wales' reigning musical wizard — and his first in a decade — MERCY proves that, in his seventh decade of creation...
Reviews Sundance 2023: Little Richard Documentary 'I Am Everything' Doesn't Tell Viewers Everything Directed by Lisa Cortés 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...
Reviews Crosslegged Paints with a Multitude of Colours on 'Another Blue' To open up the sparse Bandcamp liner notes to her 2015 album Speck, Keba Robinson (AKA Crosslegged) wrote: "Tried some new things." To concl...
Reviews Samia Swings Big on the Sweet, Striving 'Honey' Nashville-via-NYC songwriter Samia Najimy Finnerty's The Baby was one of 2020's more promising debuts, fitting in nicely with similar altern...
Reviews The C.I.A. Work with Anxious Precision on 'Surgery Channel' 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...
Reviews Dan Mangan Held Toronto Rapt at Pindrop Acoustic Performance Longboat Hall, January 19 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...
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