CAR SEAT HEADREST THE SCHOLARS MATADOR RECORDS It is always exciting whenever a band decides to do a concept album, whether that be telling a very structured narrative about one or multiple characters or having each song be connected [...]
ALL OF OUR RECORDS HAVE THEIR OWN THING GOING ON A CONVERSATION WITH RYAN LINDSEY OF BRONCHO Since their debut album, Can’t Get Past The Lips, Broncho has captivated listeners with their catchy choruses, Ryan Lindsey’s unique vocals, dazzling [...]
YOU’RE ABOUT TO GO ON A SONIC ODYSSEY A CONVERSATION WITH TIM NORDWIND OF OK GO It has been a long time since we OK Go has released an album. And The Adjacent Possible is their first album in over a decade, with their last being 2014’s Hungry [...]
BRONCHO NATURAL PLEASURE BRONCHO WORLDWIDE Indie rock darlings Broncho finally have a new album, Natural Pleasure. This is their first album since 2018’s Bad Behavior in which the band incorporated more pop elements into the mix. Yet again, [...]
MAX KERMAN – TRY HARD: CREATIVE WORK IN PROGRESS PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE CANADA BOOK REVIEW BY JOSEPH MASTEL Max Kerman is known for being the frontman of Arkells. They are one of Canada’s best working bands today, put on electrifying live [...]
JULIEN BAKER & TORRES SEND A PRAYER MY WAY MATADOR RECORDS 2025 has been a big year for the members of boygenius. Last month, Lucy Dacus released Forever Is A Feeling. Now, Julien Baker has released an album, Send A Prayer My Way, with [...]
MELVINS THUNDERBALL IPECAC RECORDINGS The iconic band Melvins is back yet again with Thunderball. Thunderball is the third Melvins 1983 record that Buzz Osborne (“King Buzzo”) and original Melvins drummer Mike Dillard have made together. Joining [...]
AS TIME GOES ON, THAT COMMUNITY AROUND EMF HAS GROWN UP WITH US A CONVERSATION WITH IAN DENCH OF EMF It is not very often that one of the first songs you ever release goes #1 on the Billboard Hot 100TM chart. Usually, it takes a while for that [...]
A NEW ERA OF CAR SEAT A CONVERSATION WITH SETH DALBY, ETHAN IVES & ANDREW KATZ OF CAR SEAT HEADREST Over the last decade, Car Seat Headrest has set the bar for indie rock with terrific albums like Teens Of Denial and Twin Fantasy (Face to [...]
OK GO AND THE ADJACENT POSSIBLE PARACADUTE OK Go are back and better than ever. Their last album was over 2014’s Hungry Ghosts, over a decade ago. The long wait was worth it as And The Adjacent Possible is a nearly pitch-perfect return, with [...]
SPIN DOCTORS FACE FULL OF CAKE CAPITOL RECORDS Chances are, if you grew up in the ‘90s, you heard the infectiously charming “Two Princes” and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong” on the radio. They were inescapable. The massive success of these songs [...]
A LIFE BEYOND RUSH A CONVERSATION WITH ENVY OF NONE’S ALEX LIFESON “It took me off the golf course because golf, as much fun as it sometimes is, is a horribly devastating soul-wrecking game, and I was playing too much, so it got me off the [...]
DON’T TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY A CONVERSATION WITH ERIC SCHENKMAN OF SPIN DOCTORS If you grew up in the ‘90s, you definitely know who Spin Doctors are. They were one of the defining alternative rock acts of the early ‘90s. Their 1991 [...]
THE RECORD THAT LAUNCHED MY CAREER A CONVERSATION WITH MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Back in 2005, Martha Wainwright released her eponymous debut album, showing the world she is just as talented of a singer-songwriter as the rest of her family. In honour of [...]
IN THE MEANTIME A CONVERSATION WITH JONNY CRAGG OF SPACEHOG If you were to compile a list of the most underrated bands from the ‘90s, Spacehog would be on that list. The two records they released in the ‘90s absolutely rock. You probably have [...]
BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD FOREVER HOWLONG NINJA TUNE Since 2020, Black Country, New Road has been one of the most talked about rock bands. Their debut album, For the first time, received widespread critical acclaim. Their second album, Ants From [...]
BABE RAINBOW SLIPPER AND SHAKAERATOR P(DOOM RECORDS) Australia is undoubtedly home to some of the coolest psychedelic rock bands working today. One band that is leading that charge with their cheerfully dazzling music and pleasantly mellow [...]
LUCY DACUS FOREVER IS A FEELING GEFFEN RECORDS Forever Is A Feeling is the first solo album from Lucy Dacus since boygenius, comprised of Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers, released The Record, one of the best albums of the decade. [...]
SPELLLING PORTRAIT OF MY HEART SACRED BONES For those who are into experimental pop, then you would know that one of the best in that scene right now is SPELLLING, the musical project of Chrystia “Tia” Cabral, who continuously releases exquisite [...]
ENVY OF NONE STYGIAN WAVZ KSCOPE Since the 2000s, there have been many fantastic rock supergroups, such as A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, The Dead Weather, Them Crooked Vultures, and Velvet Revolver. These bands shattered expectations and have [...]
BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH w/ CLEREL @ COMMONWEALTH BAR & STAGE, CALGARY (AB) MARCH 21, 2025 To celebrate 20 years of their monumental album, Sounding A Mosaic, Bedouin Soundclash is touring across Canada. For the second stop on the tour, they took [...]
IT’S JUST PURE CONNECTION A CONVERSATION WITH JAY MALINOWSKI OF BEDOUIN SOUNDCLASH Few songs from the 2000s left as big of an imprint on Canadian people as Bedouin Soundclash’s “When The Night Feels My Song”. It practically raised an entire [...]
IT’S JUST ME TRYING TO MAKE SENSE OF MY LIFE A CONVERSATION WITH BRIGHID FRY (HOUSEWIFE) Housewife is the musical project of Brighid Fry, who is one Canadian artist that should be on everyone’s radar. The band had previously been known as Moscow [...]
EVERYONE REALLY BROUGHT THEIR GAME A CONVERSATION WITH IAN BLURTON OF CHANGE OF HEART Change Of Heart might not have reached the same level of popularity or success as some of their contemporaries, but their influence on alternative rock in [...]
