News Victoria's Phillips Brewing Gets Fleet Foxes, Anderson .Paak, Sudan Archives, Bahamas for Backyard Concert Series Victoria, BC's Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. has announced the lineup for the 2023 edition of the Phillips Backyard concert series, which...
News Rina Sawayama Plots Hold the Girl: Reloaded North American Tour In support of last year's Hold the Girl, pop star-turned-movie star Rina Sawayama is hitting the road this summer for a bunch of North Ameri...
News The Chats Plot North American Tour with Cosmic Psychos Aussie punks the Chats have announced a fall tour of North America with Cosmic Psychos, the Schizophonics and Gym Shorts. After a run of...
News boygenius Announce North American Summer Tour with Broken Social Scene, Carly Rae Jepsen The boys are back in town! For the first time since the 2018 triple-bill tour that first brought Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacu...
News Smashing Pumpkins Announce North American Tour, Share New Single "Spellbinding" Smashing Pumpkins have announced an extensive tour of North America that will bring them to a pair of cities in Canada this summer. They've...
News Jungle Announce New Album 'VOLCANO,' Map Out International Tour UK dance duo Jungle have announced plans for their follow-up to 2021's Loving in Stereo. VOLCANO arrives August 11 via AWAL, and its first p...
News Elvis Costello & the Imposters to Play Vancouver on 2023 North American Tour They came through Toronto in 2022, but don't look now — Elvis Costello & the Imposters are bringing summer to another part of the country in...
News Plains' Jess Williamson Announces New Album 'Time Ain't Accidental,' Plots North American Tour Jess Williamson — one half of Plains alongside Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield — has announced plans for a new album called Time Ain't Accid...
News Pixies and Modest Mouse Map Out Co-Headlining North American Tour with Cat Power Following last year's release of Doggerel, Pixies have announced the third and final leg of their North American tour: a co-headlining trek...
News Conspiracy Trial Begins for Pras Michel of the Fugees, Accused of Acting as an Agent for China The trial has begun in the conspiracy case surrounding Fugees member Pras Michel, who has denied acting as an agent of China. Michel is f...
News Skiifall Announces 'WOIIYOIE TAPES VOL. 2' EP, Shares Lead Single Skiifall has new music on the way. The St. Vincent-born, Montreal-raised rapper announced that his upcoming EP WOIIYOIE TAPES VOL. 2 will ar...
News Australian Band Private Function Releases Record Filled with Urine The vinyl record industry's waste problem just got a whole lot worse. Australian band Private Function is selling copies of their latest rec...
News Maisie Peters Plots 2023 North American Tour Sussex-born pop star on the rise Maisie Peters has announced a North American tour in support of her forthcoming sophomore album The Good Wi...
News Logan Staats Receives TD Indigenous Songwriter Award from SOCAN Foundation Six Nations of the Grand River singer-songwriter Logan Staats has been announced as this year's recipient of the SOCAN Foundation's TD Indig...
News ODESZA Announce 2023 North American Tour Following last year's run of tour dates in support of their latest album The Last Goodbye, Washington state-based electronic duo ODESZA have...
News Toronto's Bassline Music Bar Has Permanently Closed Toronto's Bassline Music Bar — a Bloor Street West haven for up-and-coming and established local DJs alike — has announced its permanent clo...
News The Edge Wants U2 to Lead the "Resurgence of Guitars" If you've had any sort of interaction with a boomer lately, you've likely been told that guitar music is over. Now, U2 — everyone's favourit...
News Grimes and Elon Musk Change Daughter's Name to "Y" After being forced to change their firstborn's name from X Æ A-12 to X Æ A-XII thanks to California law, Grimes and Elon Musk have taken it...
News Avenged Sevenfold Announce North American Tour with Alexisonfire Having shared the news of their forthcoming new album Life Is But a Dream... earlier this month, Avenged Sevenfold are back to announce the...
News Andrew Bird Extends North American Tour Andrew Bird has added a summer leg to his North American tour plans, extending the trek into July and August and mapping out a pair of Canad...
News Anthem Singer Butchers "O Canada" Lyrics at Leafs Game There's something about the national anthem that really rouses people's spirits. As we've learned in the case of Jully Black, messing with "...
News Tyler, the Creator Shares New Single "Dogtooth," Announces 'CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: The Estate Sale' Tyler, the Creator has announced the deluxe edition of his record-breaking 2021 album CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST. The Estate Sale arrives this...
Streams Hannah Georgas Cranks the Guitars for "This Too Shall Pass" Following promises that a new album was complete and a recent teaser, Canadian singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas has shared her new single. "...
Streams The Beths Share New Single "Watching the Credits" The Beths have shared their first new music of 2023. The New Zealand indie rock quartet have released the upbeat power pop single "Watching...
Streams MUNA Cover Céline Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" for 'Like a Version' Triple J has produced another gem of a remake for its Like a Version series. Indie pop band MUNA made an appearance on the Australian radio...
Streams Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk's Son rowan Has Released His Debut Single Clearly, music runs in the family: Rowan Maida is the son of Canadian power couple Raine Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk, and now he's launched...
Streams Listen to Fall Out Boy's New Album 'So Much (for) Stardust' Returning with their first new album in five years — following 2018's M A N I A — Fall Out Boy's So Much (for) Stardust finds the band embra...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Lights, Ouri, DEBBY FRIDAY, Softcult There is a light in spring — and there is also new music. Sure, there's nothing remarkable about this weekly occurrence, but there's somethi...
Streams Lana Del Rey Shares New Record 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd' Lana Del Rey is back with her third album in as many years. Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd arrives today via Universal...
Streams Hannah Georgas Shares Teaser of New Music Hannah Georgas previously announced that she had finished her new album, and now she has shared a teaser of new music with the promise that...
Streams Daft Punk Share Documentary Track "The Writing of Fragments of Time" Featuring Todd Edwards Daft Punk continue to do the most for a band that's supposedly broken up. Just last month, the duo announced a 10th-anniversary edition of R...
Streams Russell Louder Shares New Single "Movie Queen" Russell Louder has shared a new single. The PEI-born multi-hyphenate released "Movie Queen" today via Lisbon Lux Records. The indie pop s...
Streams Listen to Björk's Remix of Shygirl's "Woe" Despite making music for more than four decades, Björk seems to always have her finger directly on the pulse, and she has a habit of shoutin...
Streams Little Simz Shares Tour Documentary 'On Stage Off Stage' Little Simz has just shared a new tour documentary, On Stage Off Stage. The documentary accompanies the UK rapper on the European leg of...
Streams Nandi Bushell Pays Tribute to "Hero" Meg White with "Seven Nation Army" Cover Music is all about nuance, which is why it's particularly funny that the whole "good vs. bad" debate often tends to lack so much of it. Last...
Streams Fred Again.., Skrillex and Four Tet Sample Lil Baby on New Song Fred Again.., Skrillex and Four Tet have shared a new song. "Baby Again..," which revolves around a prominent Lil Baby sample, can be heard...
Streams Childish Gambino Is Back on New 'Swarm' EP with KIRBY Donald Glover's Childish Gambino has reemerged in the music world with his guest spot on the Swarm EP, out now via RCA. He also has producer...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Chromeo, Tei Shi, TOBi, Shania Twain Don we now our green apparel — it's St. Patrick's Day! Although you're maybe more likely to drink you now some green beer or Irish whiskey,...
Streams The Chemical Brothers Drop "No Reason" The Chemical Brothers are back with their first new offering in two years. "No Reason" is out now via EMI / Virgin. The track is a trance...
Streams Curtis Waters Shares New Singles "HIMBO" and "God's Lonely Man" Curtis Waters has shared two new singles from his upcoming album Bad Son, arriving May 19. The Nepal-born, Calgary-raised musician known for...
Streams Watch boygenius Give a Surprise Baggage Claim Performance at the Austin Airport boygenius knows a thing or two about emotional baggage. Fittingly, the supergroup of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus posted...
Streams Maya Hawke Gives Theatrical Performance of "Thérèse" on 'The Tonight Show' Between starring in Netflix's Stranger Things and Do Revenge, recent Exclaim! cover star Maya Hawke is no stranger to the small screen. But...
Streams Shania Twain Covers Harry Styles, Howlin' Wolf for Spotify Singles Happy Women's History Month, girls! Shall we? Shania Twain is the latest artist — one of over 300 to date — to partake in the Spotify Sin...
Streams Japanese Breakfast Explains MIDI and Gives Guitar Advice to Conan O'Brien Japanese Breakfast recently appeared as a guest on the Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend podcast, and the talk show took the opportunity to ask h...
Reviews Murray A. Lightburn Excavates the Past on 'Once Upon a Time in Montreal' The music of the Dears is inextricably linked with Montreal, most subliminally in its ambitious arrangements, echoing Quebecers' love for pr...
Reviews Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA Blow Shit Up on 'Scaring the Hoes' Danny Brown and JPEGMAFIA are hip-hop's most evenly-matched odd couple. A duo known individually for their signature off-kilter styles, both...
Reviews Sunset Rubdown Made It Worth the Wait in Ottawa Club Saw, March 26 Between the 2009 dissolution of Sunset Rubdown and the return of Wolf Parade in 2016, Spencer Krug delved into musical isolation with his Mo...
Reviews boygenius Are Together for the Hell of It on 'the record' When Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus first formed their supergroup in 2018, they were tired of being lumped together by labels...
Reviews Depeche Mode Are Reborn on 'Memento Mori' Depeche Mode's greatest strength may be their resiliency amid chaos. Over the past 42 years, it's been that ability to pivot that's kept the...
Reviews Lana Del Rey Is Lost in Thought on the Radiant 'Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd' A shift occured about halfway through Lana Del Rey's 2017 album Lust for Life, the turning point marked by a song called "Coachella – Woodst...
Reviews Kelela Forged a Kinetic Connection in Toronto The Opera House, March 24 "One of the things I've been thinking about... I feel like I need to do missed connections at the Kelela show," Kelela Mizanekristos shared...
Reviews DEBBY FRIDAY Makes Her Own 'GOOD LUCK' Coming of age can be crushing. For many, there's often much in transitioning from adolescence to adulthood that they'd rather leave behind....
Reviews Fall Out Boy Reclaim Some Glory on 'So Much (for) Stardust' Fall Out Boy always commit to the bit. Throughout their 20+ year career, the band have thrown themselves into whatever they're doing whole h...
Reviews Liturgy's '93696' Burns with Fury and Ecstasy Every artistic decision and mark of evolution that Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix has made under the umbrella of Liturgy has been in service of her qu...
Reviews Softcult Face the Abyss on 'see you in the dark' In 2013, John Doran declared that m b v, the highly-anticipated third LP from My Bloody Valentine, a whole 22 years in the making, had simpl...
Reviews Weyes Blood Reached for Something True in Vancouver Commodore Ballroom, March 21 If Natalie Mering's lyrics were printed in a book, it'd be the kind publishers and critics would extol as "essential reading," a timely trea...
Reviews Alvvays Were Meticulous in Their Pursuit of Perfection in Vancouver Commodore Ballroom, March 17 Judging by the dense shoegaze soundscapes of last year's Blue Rev, it would be fair to assume that Alvvays would be hard-pressed to recreate...
Reviews Yves Tumor Throws Psychic Fisticuffs on 'Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)' With their fifth studio album — the lengthily titled Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds) — Y...
Reviews Doug Paisley Goes on a Journey of the Heart with 'Say What You Like' In press materials for Say What You Like, Doug Paisley outlined his appreciation for the little ironies of folk and country music, the way w...
Reviews Tei Shi's 'BAD PREMONITION' Is a Good Omen for Her Future Success is measured by different methods. Many consider things like album sales, awards and stream counts to set the bar, while others may p...
Reviews Dave Letterman Brings U2 Down to Earth — Sort of — with 'A Sort of Homecoming' Directed by Morgan Neville Bono's recent memoir, Surrender, is pretty much everything U2 skeptics would expect: the singer's stories of his humble origins in Dublin ar...
Reviews M83 Reaches for Familiar Heights on the Shimmering 'Fantasy' Anticipation was high for Fantasy. The first proper artist album from M83 in seven years — a soundtrack for his brother's Knife + Heart fill...
Reviews Andy Shauf Was a Mystery in Vancouver Orpheum Theatre, March 11 Standing solitary in a single spotlight — electric guitar slung around her and the light glancing off her black framed glasses — Katy Kirby...
Reviews July Talk Found Fresh Tension in Toronto Massey Hall, March 10 July Talk have reached dizzying heights in their decade plus as a band — critical respect, industry approval, radio airplay — but playing th...
Reviews Fever Ray's 'Radical Romantics' Is Ferociously Tender "I just wanna be touched / I just wanna shiver"; in two lines, Karin Dreijer more or less sums up the driving force behind their horny, tend...
Reviews Altin Gün Reignite on the Fiery 'Aşk' Altin Gün love what they do. The Amsterdam-based psychedelic sextet have been thoughtfully mining the cannon of Turkish folk for only a hand...