The last day (September 1) at Festival de musique émergente found Montréal harpist Emilie Kahn at Café-Bar L'Abstracto, playing a 5 p.m. set...
La Force's Ariel Engle eased festivalgoers into Festival de musique émergente's third night (August 31) with a soft, subtle and beautiful se...
Festival de musique émergente's Desjardins stage, situated in the fest's main square, hosted a litany of rappers on Friday night (August 30)...
Kid Koala began the proceedings rather unceremoniously at Festival de musique émergente, northern Quebec city Rouyn-Noranda's annual festiva...
It's a common artistic dilemma: a musician releases a defining work early, then faces the struggle of following it up. "This has been su...
Today, Carly Rae Jepsen releases her long-awaited new album, Dedicated — a record that, over its four year gestation, took her through a han...
Carly Rae Jepsen's fourth studio album, Dedicated, starts inauspiciously, with nothing but the simple, understated synth throb. "Julien" is ...
Toronto music publicist Darryl Weeks passed away this past Sunday (February 10). While a cause of death has yet to be revealed, Weeks' l...
King Princess is laughing her head off; it just occurred to the musician born Mikaela Straus — the artist behind the sad, sophisticated and...
It happened slowly but steadily over the last few years: tempos slowed, beats softened; in the underground, ambient music saw a sharp rise,...
Is Jeff Goldblum the most charming person on Earth? By the end of our 25-minute interview (it was supposed to be 15, but that never comes up...
On stage at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Charli XCX is absolutely captivating the 50,000-plus crowd — but it isn't hers. It'll be another h...
When the Polaris Music Prize long list was announced on June 14, most of English-speaking Canada probably didn't even notice the inclusion o...
Fans have waited five breathless years for Singularity, UK producer Jon Hopkins' fifth full-length, but no one is more excited for its relea...
In contrast to its title, Jon Hopkins' fifth full-length is actually comprised of two distinct sides: from the titular opening track through...
"Overall," Jon Hopkins tells Exclaim! of his forthcoming LP, "Singularity has a certain lightness to it compared to Immunity. It's less clos...
On her last album as U.S. Girls, 2015's Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted Half Free, Meg Remy's sample-based songwriting reached storytelling...
In interviews since Meg Remy's last album as U.S. Girls, 2015's Half Free, she indicated that her next batch of songs would be more direct,...
On February 16, Meg Remy will release new album In a Poem Unlimited, her sixth under the U.S. Girls moniker and first since 2015's Polaris M...
This year, Lizzy Goodman chronicled the 2000s indie rock revival in her excellent book Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in...
