Emilie Kahn was trapped inside Studio B-12 during a snowstorm in February. The Montreal musician, who goes by Emilie & Ogden — the lat...

The first words we hear Catherine McCandless sing on Young Galaxy's new album Falsework are, "Settle in here." Cutting through the propulsiv...

"They don't respect the boundaries of our profession," Stephen Ramsay jokes quietly over the phone. It's a Friday evening, and while setting...

A Taylor Swift endorsement can be invaluable to a new artist, but it can be equal parts a blessing and a curse. When Montreal artist Emilie...

When Chvrches released their lead single "Leave a Trace," from their new album Every Open Eye, lead singer Lauren Mayberry boldly proclaimed...

Sook-Yin Lee is never one to limit herself. The former MuchMusic VJ and current CBC radio personality is also a multimedia artist who has be...

When you're young and shy, you have to get creative in order to get your thoughts out into the world. In the case of a 13-year-old Irish art...

Like a horror movie score, Jooj's debut self-titled album opens with two ominous notes that steadily crawl at a metronomic pace. What separa...

Valerie Teicher has lived a very nomadic life. The Argentinian-born artist, who goes by the moniker Tei Shi, has moved around a lot, from Va...

Last year, Valerie Teicher, a.k.a. Tei Shi, got a critical boost by covering one of the biggest pop stars in the world: Beyoncé. Her spot-on...

Courtney Barnett has been mislabelled a slacker. The Australian musician has made a name for herself over the past few years for her intuiti...

Although Win Butler stands as Canadian indie-rock band Arcade Fire's tenacious leader, fans have had their eyes on brother Will Butler for y...

The album cover of Whitehorse's third full-length, Leave No Bridge Unburned, is illustrated like a vintage film poster, colour-blocked and d...

When Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland first joined forces as Whitehorse in 2011, their assorted sound was still finding its roots in a mel...

When Luke Doucet and Melissa McClelland first formed Whitehorse in 2011, they were very adamant on remaining a duo both in the studio and on...

Another year, another Ty Segall release. For a man who has averaged at least two records a year since 2008, Segall is getting his head start...

For the past three years, Toronto band Austra have established themselves as a force onstage, translating their spectral synth-pop into unfe...

Even though Toronto has had no shortage of independent record labels emerge in the past decade, there hasn't been a success story like that...

Pop music truly closed the gap between the chart-toppers and critics this year, as some of the biggest mainstream successes were also some o...

Over the past two years, Valerie Teicher, a.k.a. Tei Shi, has garnered quite a lot of interest from music critics and fans while amassing an...