Over the past decade, perhaps no other North American rock act has been as surprisingly consistent and consistently surprising as Austin ind...

Keeping track of digital music collections can be hard enough, let alone remembering when favourite bands are passing through town. But this...

Originally slated for wide release last year but held back by unforeseen complications with a prospective label relationship fell through, t...

In a musical landscape dominated by the echo of a million dance-punk hi-hats, the Decemberists, a curious Portland, Oregon, five-piece pop o...

Two years after the release of their intriguing debut EP, Absolutely Your Credit Is Excellent but in a Certain Way We Need Cash, Calgary fou...

Ever since 2000’s brilliant Come to Where I’m From, Akron, OH-based artist musician Joseph Arthur has been creating bright, thoughtful folk...

Los Angeles punk rockers Los Abandoned put a lot of effort into making themselves sound interesting. Boasting an aesthetic that "reunites” t...

When a promotional copy of the Shins’ long-awaited album Wincing The Night Away was leaked last October, music blog What Would Jesus Blog? p...

Three years after they first burst onto the Portland rock scene with their snarly debut, More Parts Per Million, post-punk threesome the The...

Like most people, I figured last year’s release of their double-disc greatest hits collection A Sides Win was a sure sign that Sloan were do...

Full disclosure: despite their name, I’m From Barcelona are not, in fact, from the sun-drenched beaches of Barcelona. Rather, this 29-piece...

Opening for Barsuk Records comrades Mates of State, Oklahoma-based five-piece the Starlight Mints, led by vocalist/guitarist Allen Vest, hav...

Formerly performing under the name Loudermilk — a hard rock/nu-metal act that attained middling success with 2002’s The Red Record and a few...

Touring in support of their sophomore effort, News and Tributes, it’s clear the Futureheads have had a lot more experience working a crowd t...

Considering the wealth of under-produced and occasionally underwhelming indie pop emerging from Canada these days, it’s almost a relief to h...

Jetlag has the power to suck the wind out of the sails of even the loudest and most energetic rock’n'roll bands, so you can imagine what hel...

The weather was appropriately scorching as hundreds of festival-goers packed into historic Fort York for the first annual Dog Day Afternoon....

In the opening seconds of Kick Up the Dust, you’ll hear singer Matt Camirand mutter a distant, faintly audible, "Don’t worry about, Duncan,...

As much as fans of Regina Spektor were anticipating this follow-up to 2003’s beautiful Soviet Kitsch, it’s probably fair to say that no one...

Let it be said right now: this debut seven-track EP from Vancouver’s Fond of Tigers is not a disc you’re going to find yourself dialling up...