Halifax native Rich Aucoin is very well liked in Canada. His first two albums, 2011's We're All Dying to Live and 2014's Ephemeral, both mad...

Navy Blues is a rather divisive album for fans of Sloan, the longtime Canadian rock institution. For those from their native Halifax, it was...

It's been slow going for Vancouver's Bison (aka Bison B.C.) since they were unceremoniously (and unjustifiably) dropped from Metal Blade aft...

Black Mountain went through the ringer in order to deliver their fifth album, Destroyer. Drummer Joshua Wells and singer Amber Webber, toget...

It's a good thing that Twitter wasn't around 20 years ago. If the internet was what it is now back in 1999, when Stereolab released their si...

Singer, songwriter, agreeable producer and casual gardener Sandro Perri's new album is very much an effort made in and of the great city of...

We live in intensely strange times, like society is being run through a blender. The whole political spectrum is in flux, pop culture is a b...

This review starts back in March of 1995, when a father drove his 14-year-old boy from Kamloops to the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver to experie...

Brooklyn's Dirty Projectors came out looking like they were going to the Catskills for the summer, with bandleader David Longstreth dressed...

The last time I saw Yamantaka // Sonic Titan perform was under very different circumstances. It was at the Vancouver Jazz Fest in 2014, whil...

If there was any doubt, the Mariachi Ghost prove that Canada's (comparatively) welcoming immigration policy is one of our country's greatest...

Danny Brown's set started weird, ended weird, and I'm not entirely sure what happened in between.   Everything seemed normal enough for a...

Fresh off scoring a Polaris Music Prize short list nomination for her debut, 13th Floor, rapper Haviah Mighty immediately showed why she ear...

Back in 2002, seeing the video for "Heaven Only Knows" from k-os's debut album, Exit, was a revelation. His first two albums ended up being...

I've been to Shambhala six times, so I've heard of Z-Trip (which he joked was pronounced "Zed-Trip" in Canada). Hell, I've probably seen him...

The entity known as Steel Pulse is a hodgepodge of members assembled from several generations of lineups, only a couple of whom were around...

The 2019 instalment of Phillips Brewing's Wonka-like Backyard Weekender marked the first time on the West coast for Random Recipe, a genre-b...

Born as Isabelle Rezazadeh and lovingly referred to as Space Mom by her fans, REZZ is seemingly content to continue teasing us with EPs. As...

Born in Paris, raised in Massachusetts, polished in Chicago, Makaya McCraven is one of the greatest living jazz drummers. His albums transce...

Going to see Beverly Glenn-Copeland should be a Pride Month tradition for the whole of Canada. Not only is his music uplifting and joyous, h...