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News Damien Jurado Unveils 'The Monster Who Hated Pennsylvania' LP Damien Jurado simply refuses to stop releasing new albums of hushed, heart-breaking indie folk, and he'll do it again with a new album calle...
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News Dave Lombardo Says All His Slayer-Era Drum Kits Have Been Stolen Legendary metal drummer Dave Lombardo has had the kind of career that will warrant multiple retrospectives in the future. Unfortunately, som...
News Watch Evan Dando Play a Walgreens to Thank Them for Finding His Lost Wallet When it comes to life's greatest joys, the extreme high that comes with finding a lost a wallet is definitely among them. Sometimes, in fact...
News Reggae Icon Bunny Wailer Dies at 73 Bunny Wailer — a reggae music luminary and founding member of the Wailers — has died. Wailer's manager, Maxine Stowe, confirmed to the Jamai...
News Oh Sees' John Dwyer Readies New Collaborative Album 'Endless Garbage' Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer has returned with details of a new collaborative album. The eight-song Endless Garbage arrives March 19 throug...
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News Ex-New Found Glory Guitarist Steve Klein Convicted of Indecent Exposure in Child Porn Case In 2014, former New Found Glory guitarist Steve Klein was charged with counts of lewd conduct involving minors and possession of child porno...
News Japanese Breakfast Returns with New Album 'Jubilee' Michelle Zauner has announced her third album as Japanese Breakfast. Jubilee arrives June 4 through Dead Oceans. The 10-song Jubilee foll...
News SoundCloud's New Royalty Plan Could Mean Big Payouts for Artists Though it's undeniably the industry leader, Spotify is most certainly a big tech company. And like most big tech companies, it has become al...
News Primavera Sound Cancels 2021 Edition For the second year running, Barcelona's Primavera Sound has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The festival had been resche...
News Toronto's Dorothea Paas Reminds Us That 'Anything Can't Happen' on Debut LP Singer-songwriter Dorothea Paas has been making a name for herself in Toronto over the past few years, singing alonside Badge Époque Ensembl...
News The Jeff Buckley Biopic Starring Reeve Carney Is Finally Happening Way back in 2011, we learned that Reeve Carney would be starring in a Jeff Buckley biopic. Now a good decade later, the long-in-the-works fi...
News Mick Fleetwood Won't Rule Out a Fleetwood Mac Reunion with Lindsey Buckingham In 2018, Lindsey Buckingham's second departure from Fleetwood Mac saw him take his former bandmates to court, but group co-founder Mick Flee...
News Deadmau5 Launches House-Oriented Imprint Hau5trap Over a decade on from its launch, deadmau5's Mau5trap will expand with the addition of a new house music-minded imprint, fittingly dubbed Ha...
News Lady Gaga's Dog Walker Recalls Shooting Incident in Gruesome Detail While Lady Gaga's kidnapped dogs have now made it home safe and sound, her dog walker, Ryan Fischer, is still in recovery from being shot by...
News Rammstein Have Recorded a New Album in Lockdown Last year, just as fans were getting stoked for Rammstein's massive North American stadium tour, the band were forced to postpone on account...
News Grimes Shares Unreleased Music Through Crypto Art Auction Grimes is the latest artist to enter the world of blockchain technology, sharing unreleased music as part of an exclusive collection of cryp...
Streams Kevin Drew Unearths "How's It Going" Rarity Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew has emerged with a new previously unheard rarity. It's called "How's It Going," which was recorded way back...
Streams Hear the Week's Best New Canadian Music: Junia-T, Reuben and the Dark, Braids The 2021 release calendar is beginning to heat up, and there's a pile of must-hear new Canadian material in the latest edition of The Eh! Li...
Streams Neil Young Shares "Stringman" Video Neil Young's Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 has been out in the world for some time now, meaning a new, previously unreleased version of his...
Streams The White Stripes Unearth 2001 Performance of "Hotel Yorba" wContinuing to celebrate the release of their Greatest Hits album — out via Third Man/Columbia — the White Stripes have shared 20-year-old f...
Streams NOFX Push the Boundaries of Their Sound with 'Single Album' Punk lifers NOFX had originally planned to deliver a double album for their 14th full-length release, but instead they paired it down to a s...
Streams Ten Kills the Pack Searches for a Deeper Meaning on 'Life, Death & Afterwards' Contemporary folk artist Ten Kills the Pack — a.k.a. Toronto's Sean Sroka — is back with new material. His latest EP Life, Death & Afterward...
Streams Noname Returns with "RAINFOREST" Noname has returned with a new track called "RAINFOREST," which will appear on her forthcoming new album Factory Baby. The song, which fe...
Streams Listen to Björk's Sonos Radio Station Featuring Rosalía, ANOHNI, Kelela and More Björk has shared an eclectic mix for her own Sonos Radio HD Station. Titled "21 Years Worth Of Wave Files Liquidated into a Stream," the pla...
Streams Listen to King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's New Album 'L.W.' After sharing "If Not Now, Then When?," "O.N.E." and "Pleura" in recent months, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have now released their thi...
Streams TUNS Bundle Up for February Weather in New "We Stand United" Video Canadian supergroup TUNS have shared another new single from their upcoming sophomore album Duly Noted. Today, they've offered up "We Stand...
Streams Helado Negro Shares Cover of David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Helado Negro has shared a cover of David Bowie's "Sound and Vision" for BBE's upcoming tribute album, Modern Love. "The cover I imagined...
Streams Culted Induce Anxiety via Industrial Blackened Doom on Nihilistic LP 'Nous' Manitoba really ought to get more credit in Canada's heavy music pantheon. From the shred-happy metallic punk of Propagandhi to Comeback Kid...
Streams Le Ren Teams with Big Thief's Buck Meek to Cover Gordon Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain" With Big Thief's Buck Meek fresh off the release of his debut solo album Two Saviors and Montreal's Le Ren six months out from 2020's heart-...
Streams Alex Porat Rejects a Clingy Guy on "girlfriend" Toronto pop star in the making Alex Porat has released her latest single. Listen to "girlfriend" now. Featuring a palette of raw guitar a...
Streams Julien Baker Tries Not to Sweat the Small Stuff on "Heatwave" By the end of this week, Julien Baker will be all set to put out her third full-length album Little Oblivions. Having shared songs like "Har...
Streams Bright Eyes Cover Vic Chesnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life" Having returned from a nine-year hiatus last summer with the release of Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogi...
Streams Toronto's Rogue Tenant Pays Tribute to Late Collaborator with New "Gone" Video Rogue Tenant, the recording project of Toronto-based singer-songwriter Patrick Joseph Grant, is putting out a new EP, Always Another Day, on...
Streams Drake Joins Drakeo the Ruler for New Song "Talk to Me" Drake has appeared on a new song from Los Angeles-based artist Drakeo the Ruler. You can hear the Canadian croon the hook of "Talk to Me" be...
Streams Jordan Klassen Gets Tender for His New "Golden Ladder" Video Vancouver songwriter Jordan Klassen is back with a new video for his "Golden Ladder" — the closing track from his 2020 album Tell Me What to...
Streams Pussy Riot Join Forces with Dorian Electra and 100 gecs' Dylan Brady on New Single "TOXIC" Last year, Pussy Riot teamed up with Dorian Electra to appear on the latter's "My Agenda." Now, Electra has returned the favour and hopped o...
Streams Edmonton Rapper K-Riz Mourns Lost Love in "What a Shame" Video Last December, Edmonton rapper K-Riz shared his journey of healing after a car accident with his The Room EP, which led to him being named o...
Streams Hear Chad VanGaalen's New Song "Nightwaves" Chad VanGaalen's new album World's Most Stressed Out Gardener is out next month. And while we've already heard the record's "Samurai Sword,"...
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Reviews Brand of Sacrifice's 'Lifeblood' Is the Kick in the Ass Deathcore Needs There's been an eerie, guttural rumbling in the deathcore scene since 2018 thanks to Toronto quintet Brand of Sacrifice. Their interest-piqu...
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Reviews iskwē Swaps Out Electro-Pop Immediacy for Orchestral Haunt on 'The Stars' EP You'd be wrong if you thought iskwē's acākosīk couldn't get better. If the Juno-nominated album can be likened to a beautifully destructive...
Reviews Bernice's Subverted Pop Shines Brilliantly on 'Eau de Bonjourno' Bernice's entrancing music holds no bounds — the Toronto-based group are keen to throw genre expectations to the wind, and ultimately for th...
Reviews Neil Young and Crazy Horse Get Their Stage Legs Back on 'Way Down in the Rust Bucket' One of the finest rock bands ever, getting their stage legs back before a small audience in a club, ahead of an era-defining arena tour — wh...
Reviews Bob Dylan's '1970' Turns a Copyright Technicality into a Must-Hear Meeting with George Harrison How big is Bob Dylan's basement and exactly how many more tapes has he got down there? That's one of the intriguing questions this "copyr...
Reviews 'The World's a Little Blurry' Makes Billie Eilish a Little Clearer Directed by R.J. Cutler How's this for an exercise in contrast: just a couple of weeks ago, the documentary Framing Britney Spears examined the powerlessness of the...
Reviews Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Find Beauty Amid Today's 'Carnage' Nick Cave is sounding restless again. The legendary Australian musician had been sounding uncharacteristically pensive and reflective since...
Reviews Vancouver's Kylie V Captures Grand, Melancholic Feelings on 'Big Blue' Though only 17 years old, Kylie Van Slyke, better known as Kylie V, is already a fixture in Vancouver's music scene. They debuted with the L...
Reviews 'In Ferneaux' Takes Blanck Mass to Surprising New Places "I think your destiny has been very hard and traveling," says a voice halfway through Benjamin John Power's sprawling fifth album as Blanck...
Reviews Russell Louder's 'Humor' Is a Masterclass in Powerful Pop Vocals Russell Louder has been releasing singles since 2018, meaning that their debut full-length functions as something of an overview of the proj...
Reviews Kyle Edward Connolly Channels Country-Rock Swagger with 'On Arrival' Maybe it started with Uncle Tupelo, perhaps it was the Byrds — hell, it's probably always been this way — but alternative musicians find a g...
Reviews Architects Tone Down Their Heaviness on Nuanced 'For Those That Wish to Exist' In a world where vocalist Sam Carter wishes he never yelled "BLEGH" before a djent breakdown, British stalwarts Architects have reached a di...
Reviews Grale's 'Agitacion' Is a Celebration of the Riff When the mastermind behind BWC Studios collaborates with members of Indian Handcrafts, Gargoyle, Cross Dog and Sacrifice, it is going to cre...
Reviews Danny L Harle Is Here to Save '90s Rave with 'Harlecore' Popular music has been borrowing '80s synth sounds for what seems like a while now, both in the Top 40 and otherwise, with some examples sou...
Reviews Bet Smith's 'Downer' Makes Contemporary Folk Timeless Bet Smith may be one of Canada's most underappreciated folk artists, and her latest album, Downer, is set to change that. The album is an un...
Reviews TiKA's 'Anywhere but Here' Is an Exuberant Celebration of Black Queer Love "I'm not a woman. I'm not a man. I'm something you will never understand," TiKA sings near the end of their debut record, Anywhere but Here....
Reviews Black Sheep Wall's 'Songs for the Enamel Queen' Is an Unexpected Sludge Metal Standout A six-year break between albums was worth it for what is arguably Black Sheep Wall's best record. So much has changed about this group, yet...
Reviews 'The Shadow I Remember' Is the Quintessential Cloud Nothings Album Has there been a busier pandemic band than Cloud Nothings? Within the past year, they have released two remotely recorded full-lengths (The...
Reviews Montreal's Isaac Vallentin Says a Lot with a Little on '...' The minimalist nature of Isaac Vallentin's …, his third solo album, belies how thoughtful the Montreal-based singer-songwriter is with every...
Reviews Black Dresses Return from the Beyond for Their Freakish Magnum Opus, 'Forever in Your Heart' Black Dresses were a duo from Toronto that blew expectations of pop music out of the water, culminating in 2020's Peaceful as Hell. The duo...