Genre is a fickle thing. When it comes to certain fan bases, the bands who hold a staple-status are often ostracized for wandering beyond th...

Sheer Mag made feel good music. Their empowering narratives and buoyant refrains have, in many ways, raised the creative standard amongst ad...

There's a difference between over-examining and re-examining; the latter is useful for better understanding an artist's starting point, with...

When Orange County's Fury announced their signing to Run For Cover Records, it was met with mixed emotions among the self-identified hardcor...

La Dispute have done a lot of maturing since mesmerizing Tumblrites with the anthemic woes of "Such Small Hands" in 2008. Over the years, th...

Three days after Australian singer-songwriter Stella Donnelly initially released "Boys Will Be Boys" — a gently sung but righteously angry s...

"It's never too late to be on time."   If there's one message to take away from Beware of the Dogs, it's this, because when Stella Donnell...

When you've already garnered international acclaim and indisputable commercial success before the release of your debut album, the expectati...

Intimate, isolating, scattered and collected. These contradictions shape the experimental world that Yves Jarvis calmly inhabits and confide...

At the centre of Tallies, the Ontario band that just released their debut self-titled record on Hand Drawn Dracula, are Sarah Cogan and Dyla...

Indie music often lends itself to the ironic quirks of cool kid culture. If you're not in on the joke, it all seems a little hard to follow....

Let's face it, nostalgia is a safe bet.   Reproducing sounds from the past tickles our memories, but somewhere in the past few years, nost...

There's always been an anthemic quality to the way Laura Jane Grace sings about not giving a fuck. Whether it's been political protest or ch...

Praised for continuously feeding the fix of feedback-crazed fans, Jazzmaster aficionado J Mascis has returned with a gentler offering — one...

They may not have invented the genre, but few bands have been as influential in solidifying an identity for emo and pop punk as Saves the Da...

Travel changes people, that's no secret. It gives us a chance to reflect on our relationships and gain perspective on what really matters. F...

We've all been bad and Broncho know it. While the usual suspects continue to dominate headlines, the indie rock outfit from Tulsa have taken...

Villagers make music you'd feel just as confident sharing with your crush on some pseudo-indie mixtape as you would with your relatives at a...

On the surface, it's not all that clear where Spirit of the Beehive are trying to end up with their music; there's never been definitive des...

For a band like Single Mothers, the space between too little and too much is where their music has thrived; they're self-aware enough to sel...