On their fifth studio album, Temple, folk-tinged San Francisco singer Thao Nguyen and her band shift into a pared-back rock sound. And while...
Since leaving BC band Lillix over a decade ago, Louise Burns has been quite the consistent singer-songwriter, with three albums of atmospher...
Rae Spoon understands human emotions — that they're messy, and not always well-defined in an easy, cut and dried way. This much is clear fro...
If Christine and the Queens' first album, Chaleur Humaine, was a more subdued and introspective record, with Héloïse Letessier (aka Christin...
In A Poem Unlimited, the latest album from Toronto-based Meg Remy as U.S. Girls, is a certified banger. Dipping in and out of diverse sounds...
Arizona band Calexico's ninth studio album, The Thread That Keeps Us, features hints of the Tejano-tinged "desert noir" sound the band are k...
Four years on from their last (and only) full-length release, Montrealers Blue Hawaii are back with new record Tenderness, which finds Arbut...
Given the prominence of angry white men with feelings of disenfranchisement taking to the streets this year, toxic masculinity feels like a...
There's no question that the latest album from Mike Hadreas — best known as Perfume Genius — is good. No Shape is a rich, textual experience...
Argentina-via-Brooklyn singer-songwriter Tei Shi's debut album has been several years coming — her buzz-garnering 2014 single "Bassically" n...
British synthsters Goldfrapp are back with their seventh studio album Silver Eye, a collection of tracks that feel like a return to the duo'...
It's been over a decade since Clap Your Hands Say Yeah delivered their impressive self-titled album, embodying the spirit of the internet an...
Montreal's Caila Thompson-Hannant — best known as Mozart's Sister — continues to bring her particular brand of exuberant, glistening pop on...
Four years since his last full-length album, L.A.-based songwriter Mauro Remiddi — better known as Porcelain Raft — has evidently had time t...
Wednesday night's (November 30) performance from Karen Andersen — better known as MØ — at Montreal's Corona Theatre put two different versio...
The latest from Australia's Teeth & Tongue proves that the project's Jess Cornelius has had a wine-like career: it just keeps getting better...
Much-hyped for a band who have only released cassettes thus far, Bloomington, Indiana four-piece lo-fi Hoops have finally dropped their self...
After 18 months of semi-perpetual touring, Braids may have been weary last night (July 27) — frontwoman Raphaelle Standell-Preston almost ad...
While it was billed as a Jessy Lanza show — the tour for her exceptionally well-received new album Oh No — there was a moment early on when...
Hamilton trio Basement Revolver's first release delivers angst that befits the post-industrial rust belt malaise of their hometown, and they...
