"Winning Hand" — the first single off Look on the Bright Side, the new EP from Vancouver hardcore punks BRASS — is the perfect introduction...

Jasmyn Burke decided to move to Hamilton, near the water. There is something calming about the roll of the waves, something restorative, hea...

James Di Salvio thought he was making an instrumental trip-hop record and that would be it. He never imagined those late-night jam sessions...

TiKA was about seven years old when she first watched Polly, Walt Disney's 1989 made-for-TV musical adaptation of Pollyanna. Directed and ch...

What can only be described as pure jubilation rings over the telephone line as Michie Mee, the godmother of Canadian hip-hop, tells me who s...

One of the greatest music moments in Dawson's Creek took place halfway through the third season, in the episode "A Weekend in the Country."...

Asiskiy, the sophomore EP from blues rocker Bebe Buckskin, is a five-track collection that — with its wahs of slide guitar, growling riffs,...

One doesn't need to speak French to understand what Cœur de pirate is saying on her new album, En cas de tempête, ce jardin sera fermé. The...

"We're almost like a cyber, sci-fi version of our grandparent's generation," Joseph Hirabayashi tells Exclaim! It's a bright spring day in V...

Béatrice Martin has just returned to Montreal from France, where the artist known as Cœur de pirate has been recording her fourth album. Des...

It was a fitting way to begin an out-of-this-world show: against a screen that played an epic outer space cartoon, Antwan André "Big Boi" Pa...

In what they've referred to as one of their last shows for a while, Vancouver legends the Pack A.D. performed a loud and laidback set to a t...

There was a distinct sense of positivity that never — not for a second — dropped during Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley's performance at the sold-o...

On Sunday night (September 17), Hannah Georgas helped close the inaugural Westward Music Festival on a high note as she performed a set that...

You couldn't see Vince Staples at the Vogue Theatre on Saturday night. That wasn't the point. You felt him.   Appearing as a silhouette ag...

Standing under the glow of spotlights, Charlotte Day Wilson looked like a divine being as she performed a compelling set at the Vogue Theatr...

When the audience nearly drowns out the band because they're singing at the top of their lungs so loudly, you know it's been a great show. A...

Jeremy Bolm, the frontman for post-hardcore band Touché Amoré, stood at the edge of the Vogue Theatre stage and thrust his microphone into t...

"Fuckin' Brass!"   The thick crowd at Vancouver's Vogue Theatre welcomed hometown favourites Brass to the Westward Music Festival stage on...

Outfitted in a mesh, white opal coat with matching pants and rose-tinted sunglasses, Alexis Young felt straight out of a David Lynch dream a...