Summer, 1986. A bored kid turns on MuchMusic in hopes of seeing something interesting. The best he can hope for lately is R.E.M. or one of t...

Nashville will forever be the centre of the country music universe, but in recent years, it's become known for much more than the Grand Ole...

Independent, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Craig Cardiff has spent the past 15 years building a grassroots following in Canada that recentl...

Michael Timmins seems to be attracted to big projects lately. After wrapping up his band Cowboy Junkies' ambitious four-disc collection The...

Although Jerry Williams Jr. cut his first R&B record at age 12, it wasn't until he created his alter ego, Swamp Dogg, in 1970 that he found...

With a catalogue now well into double digits and a national fan base that is surely the envy of his singer-songwriter peers, Ottawa's Craig...

In 1997, Toronto roots rockers the Skydiggers recorded "The Truth About Us," written by fledgling songwriter Scott Garbe, who based it on th...

It's been 20 years since alt-country's golden age, and Wilco fans born around that time might be hard pressed to imagine their heroes back t...

Although Fiftymen have been hometown heroes in the Ottawa area for ages, on their self-titled fourth album the band finally seems ready to t...

On his second album as White Ash Falls, Andy Bishop makes great strides as a cosmic cowboy, delivering ten tracks of pure left coast bliss....

Craig Cardiff's 15-plus year career has been a textbook study in how to do everything right in building a grassroots audience. Working compl...

This follow-up to Ellsworth's 2012 David Barbe-produced effort, Dusk Dreams, finds the PEI-born singer-songwriter venturing into more clearl...

November 22 marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and of all the events marking it, none is as unexp...

Given the frequency of his releases, it's easy to look at Howe Gelb's catalogue as a work-in-progress, with each album offering merely a gli...

While it's true that the two-piece blues-rock formula is close to played out, that hasn't stopped Indiana duo Left Lane Cruiser from continu...

David Myles's songs have always reflected a perfect world, one in which high school crushes blossom into lifetimes of happiness, where just...

Following a string of indie releases since 2002, the Devil Makes Three have taken a large step forward on I'm A Stranger Here, enlisting pro...

As interest in the new Coen Brothers film, Inside Llewyn Davis, builds, it's no surprise that music by its main inspiration — Dave Van...

"My mom calls me a gypsy child because she says I'm always just going from city to city," Lindi Ortega admits while explaining the origin of...

Anna Calvi's self-titled debut was among the finalists for the 2011 Mercury Prize, an honour that confirmed what her early supporter Brian E...