Home Front's first album feels more like a lost classic than a modern debut, a thrilling convergence of eras that spans uplifting new wave,...

On her third album, Calgary's Samantha Savage Smith digs into the liminal space between inner doubts and outer life. Wrapped up in swirling...

You could be forgiven for thinking the title of Mares of Thrace's new album, The Exile (out March 25 via Sonic Unyon), was about the band it...

Screen Violence, CHVRCHES' fourth album, seems haunted by uncertainty: with choices made, with the world at large, and with (as its title su...

Sprawling over 200 acres of precambrian shield near Gravenhurst, ON, is an outdoor art gallery called the Tree Museum. It's hosted some 80 a...

It's been almost two decades since Nick Thorburn closed the Unicorns' 2003 album, Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?, by singing, "I've...

With Pleasure finds Edmonton's VISSIA chasing satisfaction across genre lines. Her previous album, 2017's Place Holder, delivered smart,...

The cover of Motorbike James' VIISIONS features a chrome-suited astronaut peering through a window, an image that certainly resonates after...

Scattered across Land of Talk's fourth album are interest-piquing fragments of chitchat. You can pick out "Fuck you, Debbie," or "When the s...

On their first release since 2013, LA's Man Man offer a sprawling oasis of orchestral freak-rock. Over 17 tracks and 50 minutes, Dream Hunti...

Jenny Hval has never shied away from sparring with dogma. Unpacking it is her forte: over six albums, the Norwegian songwriter has rooted he...

Jom Comyn's music conjures the sensation of weathering a storm. For almost a decade, his albums have passed through sounds like shifting sea...

Is there any element of Bruce Springsteen's mythology more important than the road? New Jersey, maybe, but being born to run inevitably mean...

Rich Aucoin has never been afraid to go big. Whether in lyrical content or musical scope, it might be the very scale of the Halifax-based mu...

The colour-blasted skull that stares out from the cover of Rich Aucoin's new album, Release, is his own.   The Halifax-based musician had...

As the frontman of the Hold Steady, Craig Finn's character-driven tales of massive nights and bad decisions have anchored the band's blockbu...

"I've been keeping up with payments, man / I've been managing the pain," Craig Finn offers at a warm mid-point on I Need a New War. The song...

Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3 took 15 years to become a hit. After premiering in 1977, a 1992 recording gave the then-living composer an a...

"I've been searching for the heart to tell you something," Jenny Lewis offers on "Hollywood Lawn." "I could get down on my knees / I've had...

For the better part of the Faint's 20-plus-year career — from dance-punk pioneers to enduring electro-pop stalwarts — their true calling has...