Tara Beier – Fools Paradise
On her new six-song EP, California 1970, Tara Beier firmly establishes herself as a powerful new voice within the alt-folk scene. Drawing from the full range of her influences, from traditional folk and blues to [...]
New releases for the week ending March 24th 2017
Betty Moon - CHROME (Independent) "On her latest album Chrome Betty Moon demonstrates an eclectic range within today’s seemingly-static pop genre. The LP is full of danceable beats and bass-heavy tracks, all of which seem [...]
Chris Gostling – A Little More
Fast rising Toronto roots-rockers Chris Gostling & The Tempo have released a new video for the track "A Little More" from their acclaimed debut album, Breath, Blood & Tempo. The clip coincides with the band's [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 21st March 2017
Meet the Searchlight Final Four CBC Music have announced the final four acts for this years Searchlight. Three of them were chosen by their celebrity judges, Ruth B., Dan Kanter and Jarvis Church with the [...]
The History of Canadian Indie Rock in One Group
If combined, the biographies of the members of the TransCanada Highwaymen would tell the story of a defining era in Canadian indie music. The band, also known by the more straightforward tag of Berg, Murphy, [...]
New releases for the week ending March 17th 2017
Each Thursday we try to look forward to what music Canadian artists will be putting out the following day. This week sees just four releases but they cover a wide selection of music genres. Chilly [...]
Feist confirms pleasurable new album
On Tuesday, multiple sites reported details about Feist's fifth studio album Pleasure, the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2011's Metals. Tuesday afternoon, Feist used Twitter to address the early reports and share the record's cover art. "Much [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 14th March 2017
Are Why Big Festivals Killing Live Music? Despite the massive success of music festivals, all is not alive and well in the live music industry. While festival behemoths are seeing more fans and dollars than [...]
Art Bergmann – Remember Her Name
One year after releasing his Polaris Prize long-listed The Apostate (his first full-length original album in two decades), Canadian music legend Art Bergmann returns May 12 with Remember Her Name, a newly remastered edition of [...]
New releases for the week ending March 10th 2017
Amelia Curran - Watershed (Six Shooter) Amelia Curran's eighth album, Watershed, sees the St. John's songwriter's advocacy work with It's Mental spilling over more openly into her songwriting: Her songs are inhabited by the black [...]