Date of Birth: 2000 Releases to Date: 13 Biggest Seller: Champion Chill ‘Em All Upcoming Releases: Champion et ses G-Strings Live (surrou...

SoCalled (aka Josh Dolgin) has been crazy about making beats and collecting records since his student days in Montreal, but his path toward...

The adjective singer-songwriter gets adhered willy-nilly to all kinds of winsome whiners, but I’m willing to place money on Dondero’s oeuvre...

The soul-searching apparent on Feist’s latest and best album offers no easy answers, but a distillation of longing, trepidation and regret....

Alec K. Redfearn has a long and varied musical history, almost all of it involving sprawling bands with diverse instrumentation, and has spe...

Recorded live in her hometown of Lausanne, Switzerland last spring, Lonelyville is in fact four discrete compositions by the extraordinary S...

Dancing nimbly along the tightrope from classical music to Mariah, the man of open heart and wallet followed Holy Fuck's furious encore with...

The presence of a certain Feisty Miss meant that you couldn’t see the field for the bodies crammed into the field by the Sun Stage. Yet desp...

Unceremoniously dumped in one of the festival’s shortest sets, Toronto’s most dependably fun band (and former Hillside dishwashers) shot bac...

Undeterred by the competing nation-building exercise of the Blow, the newfangled Republic ground their way gradually into the hearts and min...

A dreamy afternoon workshop that began unassumingly with an instrumental "Better Than Worse” and a gorgeous Torngat track that begged for fu...

Carolyn Mark has found her calling and it just might be shepherding a busload of rootsy, rambunctious should be stars (Jenny Whiteley, Luthe...

Wired from a near-death experience on the 401, the Hylos poured every ounce of intensity into their strangely relentless set. With the dual...

Beans has a large part to do with the continuing existence of Holy Fuck, having nabbed them early on to be his trial-by-fire backing band at...

Purposefully out of step with the shiny circus that is CMJ, James Toth sat wearily before the microphone, declared the CD dead and said, "th...

Dig beneath the surface of the flourishing music scene in Toronto and you’re as likely to find emigrants from Brantford and Oshawa as you ar...

Given the frantic word of mouth that preceded this show, it was clear that the Drake's basement rumpus room would be inadequate to contain t...

Sometimes it's all about finding the right one. For pianist Amanda Palmer and drummer Brian Viglione, it happened at her ramshackle artist d...

A conversation with Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger is unnervingly like the records they make as the Fiery Furnaces, albeit more linear. But...

Though they produced the only cogent rock response to post-9/11 America, Sleater-Kinney still hit the stage as if they had something to prov...