"I think your destiny has been very hard and traveling," says a voice halfway through Benjamin John Power's sprawling fifth album as Blanck...

Loma never seemed long for this world. Originally a side project for Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Cross Record's Emily Cross and Dan Du...

New Fries are a hard band to pin down. Unconcerned with traditional songwriting, the Toronto no wave group have made their name on short, pr...

Megan James and Corin Roddick are describing the place where they conceived "Stardew," the first song they wrote for their third album as Pu...

There's no rushing Purity Ring. The Canadian electronic duo's third album, WOMB, is the product of three years of scattered writing sessions...

Near the end of his third album as King Krule, Archy Marshall croons about a "putrid ooz" that threatens to consume him whole. It's a signif...

Dan Bejar was flirting with disaster when he began writing the latest Destroyer record. Originally conceived as a Y2K throwback, Have We Met...

It's only been six months since Badge Époque Ensemble dropped their self-titled debut, but if their new three-track EP is any indication, th...

Toronto's Ice Cream seem like a band out of time. On 2016's Love, Ice Cream, Carlyn Bezic and Amanda Crist cloaked dry, depersonalized songw...

The past decade has brought both prosperity and tragedy for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. With a few notable exceptions, many of the same mus...

To say that Angel Olsen's latest is a great leap forward is no slight on her previous work. The Asheville, NC singer-songwriter established...

A lot can change in four years — just ask Lower Dens. Since releasing their acclaimed third album Escape From Evil in 2015, the Baltimore dr...

Natalie Mering is no mere throwback artist. The singer-songwriter's third album under her Weyes Blood moniker, Front Row Seat to Earth, drew...

Even now, just weeks ahead the release of Titanic Rising (out April 5), her fourth album under the name Weyes Blood, Natalie Mering still re...

The reunion circuit suits Royal Trux. In the '80s and '90s, Neil Hagerty and Jennifer Herrema gleefully tore apart the fundamentals of garag...

Two doctors took the stage at Toronto's Opera House last night, but the results were anything but clinical. While Gabriel Vigliensoni and Jo...

The party's over for Cherry Glazerr. Originally started as an outlet for lo-fi musings on cats and grilled cheese, frontwoman Clementine Cre...

Julia Holter isn't prone to small, easy statements. Baroque and oblique in equal measure, her music teases out obscure details and ineffable...

If her new record is any indication, Julia Holter has a lot on her mind. Aviary, the L.A.-based composer's fifth studio album, derives its t...

When film critic Manny Farber coined the phrase "termite art," he wasn't referring to artists like Exploded View. A trained painter with a t...