Brooklyn local Autre Ne Veut is staking his claim as R&B's next morbid, art-damaged sensation, yet live, his performance has more in common...

Vatican Shadow, who just released Ornamented Walls, often gets called dark ambient, which is only partially true. Knob-twiddler Dominick Fer...

Dent May is best known as a ukulele troubadour, which is precisely why Do Things was so surprising. Here, backed by a full band, May experim...

Montreal's Mac DeMarco might have recently linked up with Captured Tracks to release 2, but don't confuse him with the clean-cut, summery fa...

Hype — right now, METZ has it in fistfuls. Yes, they somehow managed to linked up with Sub Pop for their debut album. Sure, that debut...

Is there a polite way to tell a band that they've overstayed their welcome? Because King Tuff, Kyle Thomas's lobotomized glam-garage project...

When openers Honheehonhee called Library Voices one of "Canada's best live bands," they weren't screwing around. Of course, there's no short...

On the day after the Offspring's bloated, uninspired performance, it was refreshing to see a band trending in decidedly different directions...

If nothing else, Emily Haines is a serious performer. Say what will of Metric's maximalist alt-indie, of Haines's penchant for teenage-poeti...

If Seeds, the third album from Newfoundland orchestral collective Hey Rosetta!, had a single overarching imperfection, it was that it felt o...

Beirut's blend of modern indie pop and gypsy jazz would feel obnoxious -- befitting of France-bound elites discussing Derrida over wineskins...

Prior to his set at Quebec City's Festival d'été, Brad Barr admitted he had his insecurities: the performance was only the Barr Brothers' se...

Nearly a decade into their craft, and in the midst of an East Coast tour that will have them performing at New Jersey's ATP fest and the Hal...

Fresh off collaborations with Ohio genre giant Steve Arrington and Nite Jewel earlier this year, L.A. boogie master Dâm-Funk will soon be tr...