It’s a feat, dusting off your paws and getting on with it again, knowing that it doesn’t have to end. So it’s been for Hamilton, ON’s Bass L...

An art rarely captured in its purest form, stripped down and done at home, these punk bones belong to Jones. East Vancouver’s Jones Bones br...

One year after the release of their self-titled EP, Victoria’s the Paper Cranes are certainly ushering in a golden age. The band’s efforts t...

Amy Honey is an artist and music represents only one brilliant note in her creative range. Photography is another; her photographs are bold...

Vancouver songwriter Tony Marriott’s journey has run parallel to the Pacific between the creative centres of San Francisco and Vancouver. He...

Their first collaboration, Jubilee, was nominated for two Juno Awards but walked away empty-handed. In Good We Trust has Juno written all ov...

With the recent Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Ray Price collaboration, it seems to be the time for seasoned songs and singers. But classi...

Although not unheard of, soundtracks don’t usually accompany books and most record labels stick to proliferating sounds, as opposed to image...

The Holmes Brothers have been at it for decades in one incarnation or another, preaching gospel truth and breathing soul into the music of o...

Having recently parted ways with Magic Ass, Luke Gustafson’s solo adventures continue on his second recording after 2003’s The 7th and Carol...

Country music is a wind-swept border town whose residents comes in all the varieties of good, bad and ugly. It’s hard to know where to draw...

Jon Wood’s atmospheric touch serves the Beige songwriting of Rick Maddocks well and turns what might have been a crash into a soft and uneve...

Victoria’s the Paper Cranes sound ready to fly up and away from their island home. Whether or not they’ll eclipse the blazing Hot Hot Heat,...

That Handsome Devil is fronted by a guy named Godforbid. Godforbid knew what he was doing when he called in the trumpets, violins, and laid...

He’s not a cowboy, just a country and western singer who plays it in a good, old way. This is Matt Masters’ first album. Drawing from the ho...

Following a series of albums with G7 Welcoming Committee, MacPherson’s latest release is a collection of his best, pressed on vinyl by an in...

Chris Thile and his mandolin will move you one way or another. How to Grow a Woman from the Ground, Thile’s fifth album, is bound to make th...

The Duhks, whose name sounds like ducks, are Winnipeggers whose migratory path and musical sensibilities connect them with Nashville, but by...

One of the biggest charms of Old Crow Medicine Show is their conscious but contented ambivalence towards image. The album sleeve for their N...

Jeff Healey is best known as the blind guitarist with a penchant for blues based music. However, in the years following his prominence in th...