At the end of 2010, Vancouver's White Lung topped Exclaim!'s year-end punk list with their full-length debut It's the Evil, a relentless, un...

White Lung had one goal when it came time to make their sophomore album: no filler. Their debut, 2010's It's The Evil, was itself a quick...

Pennsylvania's the Menzingers have been operating on a cycle of great expectations and fulfilling them since before breakthrough album Chamb...

Sonic Avenues may call Montreal home, but they don't exactly sound the part, something vocalist/guitarist Max Desharnais admits they hear a...

Sonic Avenues charge through their sophomore full-length so relentlessly that the energy's palpable. Coming off their well-received self-tit...

Toronto, ON's Actual Water have been making a strange collage of sounds for a few years, and on their newly re-released The Paisley Orchard...

After spending years in bands playing the much more serious underground punk circuit, Halifax, NS's Cold Warps found pop. The four-piece (wi...

Just a year ago, after a string of well-received singles, Ottawa, ON's Steve Adamyk Band released their debut full-length on P.Trash Records...

With Midwest right there in the band name, you get an idea of what you're going to hear on this Cleveland, OH quartet's sophomore album, Lat...

Good Luck self-released their debut album, Into Lake Griffy, in 2008 after being a band for about nine months. Named for a lake in their ado...

Toronto, ON's !Attention! have been a live favourite for a few years now, playing their aggressively regressive brand of super-adrenalized,...

New Found Glory have settled nicely into a comfortable spot over the past couple of albums, and there comes a time when even those of us who...

Polar Bear Club are past the point in their career where they're saddled with a ton of expectations ― that would've been before releas...

The image of our nation's well-coiffed capital isn't one that you'd expect to spit out a record as harsh and pointed as Crusades' debut full...

Earlier this summer, when Toronto, ON's Army Girls released debut single "The Power," it boded well for the full release that was to follow;...

Toronto, ON's Spitfist (all former music store co-workers turned friends) formed after nights of partying, an arsenal of inside jokes and a...

If you're not already familiar with Ottawa, ON's Crusades from their promising first demo/seven-inch, you most likely know one or more of th...

The Festival de musique émergente (the Emerging Music Festival) is a special one. Located in a remote part of northern Quebec in a copper mi...

The second album from UK trio Male Bonding doesn't stray too far from the Sub Pop blueprint of debut Nothing Hurts, and while their early '9...

Banquets demonstrated off some serious songwriting on their EP, This Is Our Concern, Dude, a year ago, attacking their craft with the passio...