
It's axiomatic that one new Danny Michel song is better than no new Danny Michel songs and five new songs are maybe not as good as ten. But...
It's axiomatic that one new Danny Michel song is better than no new Danny Michel songs and five new songs are maybe not as good as ten. But...
Close listeners of Steven Page's music, from his days with Barenaked Ladies through his solo work, know that he doesn't shy away from seriou...
It can take a bunch of listens sometimes to really appreciate a record. Not Ben Kunder's Better Human, which shines from the get-go. For...
Horse Feathers are probably the best band you're not currently listening to. If the Portland, OR-based folk-country outfit aren't on your ra...
El Coyote is what happens when a group of über-talented musicians spend an extra-long Montreal winter playing music together. The result is...
Megan Bonnell's new release, Separate Rooms, is a powerful collection of reflective, genre-defying pop-folk balladry. In other words, more o...
With Beauty in the Tension, the Olympic Symphonium return with another dreamy, low-key folk gem. The New Brunswick-based quartet's fifth stu...
Along with 2012's Rhythm and Repose and 2015's Didn't He Ramble, singer-songwriter Glen Hansard completes something of a low-key folk trilog...
The ninth studio album from Canadian folk-roots rockers Skydiggers is simultaneously urgent and laid-back, angry and understanding, intimate...
It's hard to resist Shawn William Clarke's charms. His 2014 record, William, was a warm, impressionist mural that hypnotized critics and slo...
Music fans of a certain age can take comfort in the fact that so many of their favourite childhood musicians are not only still around, but...
Ron Sexsmith's 13th album, The Last Rider, is a stunner. The Toronto-based musician's gift to music lovers all these years has been relentle...
What do you get when Kevin Hearn, the brilliant, multi-instrumentalist best known as the keyboardist for Barenaked Ladies, teams up with his...
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Megan Bonnell's second full-length album, Magnolia, is a gorgeous, introspective collection of songs that de...
Danny Michel isn't too cool to write about love, hope, happiness or peace; he's not too cool to breathe new life into old clichés; and he's...
Visions of Us on the Land, the third instalment of Damien Jurado's concept trilogy that began with Maraqopa in 2012 and was followed by Brot...
Steven Page's deluxe voice is easily one of the best in Canadian music. If I'd said "the best," you'd argue, and that's not why we're he...
Glen Hansard's last record, 2015's Didn't He Ramble, was so good there wasn't enough space on it for the title track. On his new four-so...
Adult Lullabies, Michael Feuerstack's new release, is a five-song companion to last year's incredible The Forgettable Truth, which, if there...
Ben Hermann's music has a wistful, beautiful quality to it. The Toronto-based, North Bay native's first full-length record, Windows Wide Ope...