CROWN LANDS @ RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, RICHMOND HILL MARCH 31, 2026 Crown Lands have wrapped up their cross-Ontario tour, performing at theatres across the province, performing a career spanning show, all without support [...]
KATY PINKE WONDER GLAMOUR GOWNS Sometimes you wonder, and it seems so does Katy Pinke on her new 4-song EP, with such a title, why do artists bother to release EPs that barely scratch over 6 minutes – is it just teasing ahead of something [...]
MICHAEL DES BARRES “I WAS SAVED IN ’64” VIDEO | SPOKEN WORD ROCK AND ROLL RUM BAR RECORDS Michael Des Barres is back with a new video for his spoken word rock and roll poem, “I Was Saved in ’64,” debuting on [...]
CANADIAN BLUES MUSIC AWARDS CROWN FIRST-EVER WINNERS AT LANDMARK TORONTO GALA The Canadian Blues Music Awards made history Monday night at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto, crowning the first-ever winners of Canada’s new national [...]
THIS WARRANTS A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK MUSICALLY A CONVERSATION WITH JAY MALINOWSKI Jay Malinowski of the JUNO award-winning musical duo Bedouin Soundclash is set to release a new solo album titled Under A Landslide Of Stars. Under the solo moniker [...]
INDUSTRIAL POP FORCE AESTHETIC PERFECTION SHARES NEW SINGLE “SORROW” FEAT. SWARM | SUCKERS FOR PUNISHMENT TOUR DATES INDEPENDENT Aesthetic Perfection is proud to release their new single “Sorrow,” featuring industrial EDM [...]
ALLEGORIES – “HORRIBLE WONDER” INDEPENDENT Experimental duo Allegories share “Horrible Wonder,” a reflective, floating single that transforms confusion into catharsis. Blurring the line between indie electronic [...]
THE BUDOS BAND’S REMASTERED SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM TO BE RELEASED ON LAVA SPLATTER COLOUR VINYL DAPTONE RECORDS Marking its 20th anniversary in 2025, the eponymous debut album from Staten Island’s finest is finally back in print. [...]
ROBYN HITCHCOCK DECLARES “I AM THIS THING” | LEGENDARY BRITISH ART ROCKER RETURNS WITH SELF-ANTHEMIC NEW SINGLE 25th STUDIO ALBUM THE CONFUSER ARRIVES VIA TINY GHOST RECORDS ON JULY 24 Legendary British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock returns [...]
THE WHITE BUFFALO ON TOUR IN EASTERN CANADA SNAKEFARM RECORDS Emmy nominee Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo, is touring through Eastern Canada this fall! A powerful and prolific storyteller through his songcraft, The White Buffalo’s body of [...]
TOM WILSON (TEHOHÁHAKE) RELEASES NEW VIDEO “WE LIVE IN DREAMS” CO-WRITTEN WITH TANYA TALAGA & FEATURED IN DOCUMENTARY NI-NAADAMAADIZ: RED POWER RISING Celebrated Canadian musician, author, and visual artist Tom Wilson [...]
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS THE FORMER SITE OF NEW PORNOGRAPHERS MERGE RECORDS Despite the initial controversy with its name when the band first appeared, The New Pornographers made it big instantly, and it was the quality of the music, lyrics and [...]
TIGERS JAW LOST ON YOU HOPELESS RECORDS Tigers Jaw sound has always felt like a soft reawakening, a breath that one takes before admitting something that you’ve kept hidden away in the dark, avoiding what might surface if you bring it to [...]
PERTH PSYCH TRIO MONOTONIC RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM ‘HEAVY METAL’ HIDDEN SHOAL Perth/Boorloo’s own purveyors of heavy psychedelic sorcery, Monotonic, unleash their long-awaited album debut Heavy Metal‘ The record is being [...]
FLEA HONORA NONESUCH RECORDS Whispers of Flea, the jazz musician, have persisted for decades. While it is commonly known that before picking up the bass, his first instrument was the trumpet, and he regularly expresses his love for jazz and [...]
SNAIL MAIL RICOCHET MATADOR RECORDS If you’ve been with Lindsey Jordan and Snail Mail since her first full release Habit, then this record is for you. Jordan opens with a steady, energetic farewell to a relationship she’s parted ways with, [...]
TRUE GREEN HAIL DISASTER SPACECASE RECORDS Minneapolis-based novelist/songwriter Dan Hornsby is not the first to lead a band, but might be among the first ones to set his lyrical vision through jangly guitar rock with his band True Green. Hail [...]
MARNIE WEBER RETURNING HOME: THE MUSIC OF MARNIE WEBER PHANTOM LIMB RECORDS Wikipedia defines art rock as “ a subgenre of rock music that aims to separate the genre from popular entertainment, with the term typically being applied as the middle [...]
JACKIE WEST SILENT CENTURY RUINATION RECORDS Some would say that singer-songwriters are dime-a-dozen these days (again!), and the proliferation is certainly there, but there seems to be a deeper thematic shift compared to the initial [...]
NINA HAGEN HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN GRÖNLAND RECORDS If you’ve ever dreamed of watching late-career Marlene Dietrich play an enigmatic preacher in a European arthouse rock musical, you’re in luck! Nina Hagen’s new gospel album, HiGHWAY TO HEAVEN, is [...]
JON ANDERSON SURVIVAL& OTHER STORIES | EARTH MOTHER EARTH FRONTIERS MUSIC Jon Anderson has released 16 solo studio albums. His catalogue of music is astounding and with his new band, The Band Geeks, he continues to record and tour. These two [...]
CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD HURTS LIKE HELL NEXT DOOR RECORDS/MERGE RECORDS Big life changes impact everybody, but such changes are more visible, or to be precise, more audible with musicians. Motherhood is one such big change in life, and it had its [...]
EM SPEL BIRD OR SNAKE BIRDWATCHER What would be experimental folk exactly? As with any other genre, it would approximately mean that you as an artist are not taking the usual routes associated with such a genre, and it could be anything from [...]
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY ENGINES OF DEMOLITION MNRK Having played a significant role in the recent Pantera reunion, Zakk Wylde has returned his attention to Black Label Society to deliver Engines of Demolition, the first record from the band since [...]