Dine Alone adds to family, announces tour, debuts two videos.

Lots of news from the Dine Alone empire this week: The Dirty Nil debuted their new video on Monday for 'Friends In The Sky', and today announced an 18 date European Tour (November through December) with [...]

By | October 5th, 2016|Categories: New Music, News, Video Release|Tags: , , , |104 Comments

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler talks Personal Heroes and Nightmare Clowns in this Two Hour Talk (video)

Last week Win Butler from Arcade Fire opened up for a two hour lecture at the Red Bull Music Academy taking place all month long in Montreal. Win walked listeners through his start in music, [...]

By | October 4th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |67 Comments

Wintersleep nominated for a UK VMA

By Garry Benfold On Thursday October 20th Montreal-based band Wintersleep, along with the rest of us, will find out if their video Amerika has won an award in the Indie Rock category of the 2016 [...]

By | October 4th, 2016|Categories: News|50 Comments

ICYMI – Walk Off The Earth and the Canadian Anthem

Artistic liberty or cultural dissonance? by Tiffy Leeson Walk off The Earth performed ‘O Canada’ at The World Cup of Hockey Finals in Toronto last Thursday. The internet sensation indie group from Burlington, Ontario, integrated [...]

By | October 2nd, 2016|Categories: Editorial, News, Show review|Tags: |67 Comments

Secret City Records releases 10th anniversary compilation

By Regina Sienra Since 2006, Secret City Records has been putting out amazing records that immediately became classics among Canadian music fans. Their star-studded roster includes Basia Bulat, The Barr Brothers, Patrick Watson, Owen Pallett [...]

By | September 25th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |71 Comments

The Tourist Company releases new track, announces tour dates

By Regina Sienra Vancouver’s The Tourist Company has gotten some airplay and has done well on contests like CBC’s Searchlight and The Peak Performance Project. Still, the Vancouver four-piece had yet to release a debut [...]

By | September 21st, 2016|Categories: New Music, News|Tags: , |128 Comments

Royal Canoe go on tour

By Regina Sienra Royal Canoe, the extraordinary band from Winnipeg, released the vibrant album Something Got Lost Between Here And The Orbit less than a week ago. The record, the first in three years, has [...]

By | September 20th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: |95 Comments

Kaytranada wins the 2016 Polaris Music Prize

By Regina Sienra Kaytranada, the electronic producer from Montreal, was the winner of the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%. The gala featured performances by Andy Shauf, Black Mountain, Basia Bulat, Carly Rae [...]

Watch the Polaris Music Prize 2016

It’s Polaris Music Prize night. A band, or a performer, will walk home with the $50,000 novelty cheque for creating the best Canadian album of the year, based on artistic merit. The gala will take [...]

By | September 19th, 2016|Categories: News, Polaris Music Prize|211 Comments

Listen to the 2016 Polaris Prize Podcast

By Regina Sienra The Polaris Music Prize gala is just around the corner. The winner of the $50,000 will be announced next Monday, September 19, at the Carlu in Toronto. For fans who are still [...]

By | September 13th, 2016|Categories: News, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: , , |118 Comments