Nick Ferrio lives in the world of Beatles-style rock — upbeat music that should be blasted on summer drives with the windows down, with lyri...
In this age of deluxe editions, extended albums and endless Spotify remixes, it's refreshing to blast through something short and precise. S...
When a band first starts out, or is looking to take their act to the next level, common wisdom is to learn some covers. Lose the stress of w...
Is Michael Feuerstack Canada's most underrated songwriter? Since 1994, he's put out 13 solo albums (nine under the moniker Snailhouse, four...
Few bands have left a larger footprint in the mud of 21st-century rock than the Hold Steady. While 2006's Boys and Girls in America became t...
Ian Daniel Kehoe's music has always felt like a throwback. The multi-instrumentalist — known as a former member of Attack in Black and the d...
July Talk are a band that have never stood still. Bursting onto the scene with a blend of scorching blues riffs and enchanting, salty-sweet...
After two garage-rock albums, Texas's Sweet Spirit decided it was time for a change. The direction? Glam-pop. Trinidad — named after lead...
Some philosophical topics — freedom, unity, love — are hard to break down and understand through conventional means. Few of us are Socrates,...
Badly Drawn Boy — the moniker of England's oddball songsmith Damon Gough — is celebrating his 50th year in a special way: releasing Banana S...
Sometimes, there's an artist that comes along with the perfect alchemy of life experience, soul and ability — one with a message that needs...
There are two reasons to record a live album: to permanently document an event or to capture a band's live energy. While neither approach is...
In a world of instant gratification, it's refreshing to see a band take the time to organically grow their sound. Halifax's Beauts have been...
After 30 years, eight Afghan Whigs records and five more from Twilight Singers, it's odd to think that Greg Dulli is just now releasing his...
You don't have to talk to Prancer's lead vocalist Thalia Coryn for too long to realize they're taking the next step in a lifelong mission: T...
At points haunting and at others mighty, the constantly poignant Warrior Down by WHOOP-Szo blends cultural disenchantment, grunge and psych...
In 1979, Neil Young gave us two options: Burn out or fade away. Fast forward 40 years and we're learning there was a third option: Get the o...
Equal parts an ode to isolation and a lament over endless gentrification, Dead Soft's Big Blue boasts a huge sound from the tiny BC island t...
Like the Velvet Underground and the Strokes before them, Queens, NY, natives WIVES have taken New York City's trademark grit and grime, adde...
Few bands are able to combine the artful bludgeoning of Sumac with the vulnerability of Tom Waits — but then again, Kal Marks are like few o...
