News Clayton Gardner "Outraged" After Woman Appears to Cough on Him During Outdoor Performance Over the weekend, country singer Clayton Gardner performed an ostensibly COVID-safe outdoor concert in Irving, TX. While the American artist...
News You Will Never Need Headphones Again with Elon Musk's Brain Implant Would you have a brain chip implant installed to listen to music if it meant never losing an AirPod or untangling a rat's nest of cable ever...
News Kanye West Says "Ima Focus on the Music" Following Deleted Twitter Rant Has Kanye West finally given up his futile presidential run? Following an erratic Twitter rant (which itself followed a bizarre campaign spe...
News METZ Return with New Album 'Atlas Vending' METZ have returned with details of a new album. The Toronto trio will release fourth studio effort Atlas Vending on October 9 through Royal...
News Burger Records Issues Apology After Multiple Artists and Label Employees Accused of Widespread Sexual Misconduct Label, record store and music festival organizer Burger Records has issued a statement promising "major structural changes," including the r...
News Drake Just Gave the Toronto Raptors a Bunch of Scented Candles In an extremely on-brand moment, notorious softy Drake has gifted members of the Toronto Raptors with a bunch of luxurious scented candles....
News Logic's Retirement Includes a Seven-Figure Twitch Streaming Deal Last week, Logic detailed new album No Pressure while also announcing his retirement from music, explaining how a growing family is a chief...
News 'Q Magazine' Shuts Down After 34 Years British music monthly magazine Q has announced it will be shutting down after 34 years, with its final issue hitting shelves July 28. Edi...
News PUP Are Immortalized in the New 'Paper Mario' Game It was just over four years ago that PUP had a cast of classic video game characters belt out the lyrics to "DVP," and the attention to digi...
News There's a Petition to Get Chi Pig a Star on Canada's Walk of Fame Last week, SNFU frontman Chi Pig tragically passed away at 57, and the massive outpouring of tributes shows just how treasured he was as a C...
News Kanye West Doubles Down on Anti-Abortion Stance at First Presidential Rally, Criticizes Harriet Tubman Kanye West held his first presidential rally in South Carolina last night, during which the rapper took aim at abortion rights and, strangel...
News Power-Pop Hero Emitt Rhodes Dead at 70 Power-pop legend Emitt Rhodes, who helped pioneer the rise of home recording with his solo albums, has passed away. He was 70. Rhodes got...
News Logic Explains Why He's Retiring Last night, Logic announced his new album No Pressure, but the announcement was bittersweet. After all, it found the rapper saying he was re...
News Dave Mustaine Details 'Rust in Peace' Memoir In sharing that he was officially cancer-free this past February, Dave Mustaine also revealed plans to explore Megadeth's acclaimed 1990 ful...
News Perry Farrell to Explore 'The Glitz; The Glamour' with New Box Set Perry Farrell told us of his grand plans upon the arrival of solo LP Kind Heaven last year, and he's now going to reflect on several decades...
News A Music Manager Suggested New Artists Should Only Release Singles and Everyone Is Pissed With easier access to recording and releasing music than ever before, how does one break through all of the clutter and stand out? There are...
News Tory Lanez Being Investigated for Allegedly Shooting Megan Thee Stallion: Report Following reports that Tory Lanez was responsible for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, the LAPD are now formally investigating the allegations....
News Live Music May Not Return Until 2022, Says Lollapalooza Co-Founder If you've had enough of livestream concerts, postponements, cancellations and chasing down ticket refunds, one of Lollapalooza's co-founders...
News Toronto's G98.7-FM to Be Sold An Ontario court has ordered the parent company of Toronto radio station G98.7-FM to be sold, putting the future of the beloved station furt...
News Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Sends "Love to All the Edmonton and Vancouver Punks" in Chi Pig Tribute Last night, the news emerged that legendary punk frontman Chi Pig of the band SNFU had died at the age of 57. Although his legacy was alread...
News Kazoo! Fest Cancels 2020 Edition After postponing, then rescheduling due to coronavirus restrictions earlier this year, Guelph's Kazoo! Fest has now outright cancelled its 2...
News Logic Is Releasing 'No Pressure' Next Week — and He Says It Will Be His Final Album Following some teasing, Logic has announced he will be releasing a new studio album — which he says will be his last. The record is calle...
Streams Hannah Georgas Offers a Glimpse into the National's Barn Studio in Her "Just a Phase" Video Hannah Georgas is releasing her new album All That Emotion later this year. And following a few preview singles, she has now shared a new cl...
Streams Montreal's Le Couleur Share Disco Epic "Désert" Montreal synthpop trio Le Couleur are taking listeners on a grand disco voyage with "Désert." The seven-minute single comes from their upcom...
Streams Gorillaz Share 'Song Machine' Single "PAC-MAN" Gorillaz have rolled another new instalment of their Song Machine singles series. "PAC-MAN" features ScHoolboy Q and can be heard in the pla...
Streams Here's the Full Trailer for Beyoncé's New Visual Album Next week, Beyoncé will return with Black Is King — her latest visual album and first for Disney+. We've seen a teaser, and now we get a pro...
Streams Hear Chris Cornell's Previously Unreleased Guns N' Roses Cover In honour of what would have been Chris Cornell's 56th birthday, the late artist's estate has unearthed a recording of the Soundgarden singe...
Streams SNFU Share One Last Song Last week, the world mourned as iconic SNFU frontman Chi Pig passed away at the age of 57. In addition to a series of tributes from all over...
Streams Half Moon Run Share 'Season of Change' EP Half Moon Run have shared a new EP titled Season of Change, with songs culled from their recent isolation recordings. The six-track record i...
Streams Toronto's Houdini and Pressa Collide on "Mansion" A posthumous verse from late Toronto artist Houdini has arrived on a collaborative single with Pressa. You can hear the two T.O. upstarts tr...
Streams Ralph Goes Full '90s Nostalgia with Cover of Jennifer Paige's "Crush" Toronto producer Ralph — a.k.a. Raffaela Weyman — has shared a new cover of Jennifer Paige's 1998 hit, "Crush," alongside a new animated vid...
Streams Joey Bada$$ Returns with Three New Songs Joey Bada$$ has returned with three new songs, marking his first solo material in three years. "The Light," "Shine" and the Pusha T-assis...
Streams Rich Aucoin Pays Tribute to the Photography of Robert Frank in "Dopamine" Video After dropping a pair of protest songs from his forthcoming United States album, Halifax native Rich Aucoin has returned with a new single t...
Streams Swagger Rite Drops "Like That" West-end Toronto rapper Swagger Rite has shared a brand new single — his second release this year — titled "Like That." Moving away from...
Streams Ocie Elliott Return with 'Tracks' EP Victoria, BC's Ocie Elliott — the folk-pop project of Jon Middleton (of Jon and Roy) and Sierra Lundy — are back with a brand new EP titled...
Streams Yukon Blonde Return with New Song "Get Precious" Yukon Blonde have returned to share their first new material in two years. You can hear summertime single "Get Precious" by following along...
Streams Here's Drake and DJ Khaled's New Singles "Popstar" and "Greece" Right on schedule, Drake and DJ Khaled have shared their joint new singles "Popstar" and "Greece." As such, you can hear them both below....
Streams Austra Remixes Lido Pimienta's "Eso Que Tu Haces" Austra's Katie Stelmanis has shared new remix of Lido Pimienta's Miss Colombia track "Eso Que Tu Haces." The so-called "Gynocracy Mix" is ou...
Streams Freddie Gibbs Is on the Run in His "Scottie Beam" Video Having served up their Alfredo album this past May, Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist have now shared a video for album highlight "Scottie Bea...
Streams Helena Deland Returns with New Song "Lylz" Helena Deland has returned with a new song. The Montreal artist has shared "Lylz," and you can hear it alongside a video below. "Lylz" is...
Streams STORRY Turns the Lights Down Low in Her "For No One" Video In June, STORRY celebrated Pride Month with the Junia-T-produced single "For No One," and the Juno-nominated artist has now given the slow-b...
Streams TRP.P Return with New Song "Tell Me" Toronto duo TRP.P have returned with a new single. "Tell Me" is the latest from singer-songwriter pHoenix Pagliacci and producer Truss, and...
Streams Hear the Pastels Cover Silver Jews' "Advice to the Graduate" While more than a few artists have paid tribute to Silver Jews leader David Berman, Scottish indie-pop heroes the Pastels have also now hono...
Streams King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard Return with New Song "Honey" King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are back. The beloved Aussie psych crew have just unloaded a new single called "Honey," and you can get in...
Reviews Protomartyr Aim Big on 'Ultimate Success Today' but Find Strength in the Subtleties Instead These days, there's something strangely dissatisfying about hearing Protomartyr vocalist Joe Casey identify and diagnose our personal and so...
Reviews Uranium Miner-Turned-Rapper Troy Junker Is Perhaps Too Relatable on 'The Path' EP Troy Junker, a uranium miner-turned-singer and rapper, has made an EP of short and punchy songs brimming with optimism. Each of the five son...
Reviews The Pretenders Change Up Their Songwriting While Remaining as Authentic as Ever on 'Hate for Sale' Helming the legendary outfit for just over 40 years, Chrissie Hynde continues to wield the same unfettered punk-primed power that earmarked...
Reviews Punk Doc 'White Riot' Showcases Anti-Racism Activists in a Time Before Social Media Directed by Rubika Shah A lot has been said about Blackout Tuesday — an initiative that stemmed from Atlantic Records' marketing team's similar #TheShowMustBePaused...
Reviews Illuminati Hotties Joyfully Stick It to the Man on 'Free I.H: This Is Not the One You've Been Waiting For' There are multiple reasons for releasing music, aside from entertainment and the satisfaction of connecting with people through creativity....
Reviews U.D.O. Take a Brassy Approach to Symphonic Metal on Socially-Minded 'We Are One' We Are One, the latest outing from teutonic metal legend Udo Dirkschneider, is less a U.D.O. album in the traditional sense and more of a mu...
Reviews 'Jesse Jams' Is a Life-Affirming Glimpse into the Life of an Edmonton Mumble Punk Directed by Trevor Anderson "A troubled girl is perfect for me because / Even diamonds are full of flaws and / It doesn't matter if you're falling apart / I'm just look...
Reviews Ora Cogan's Haunted 'Bells in the Ruins' Hints at a Darkness Beneath the Surface Some types of music instantly whisk you away in a stream of blissfulness, the instrumentation swirling and the vocals a hypnotic murmur. Bel...
Reviews Kllo Rekindle Their Synthpop Chemistry on 'Maybe We Could' The reception to Kllo's dance-inflected debut, Backwater, in 2017 sent the Melbourne-based duo touring around the globe twice. But their nex...
Reviews Ambient Legend Laraaji Captures the Beautiful Naïveté of Childhood on 'Sun Piano' When people tell the story of ambient music pioneer Laraaji, they usually start here: one day in 1978, as Laraaji was playing the zither in...
Reviews Bing & Ruth's 'Species' Is as Monotonous as the Desert Dunes That Inspired It Bing & Ruth is New York composer and pianist David Moore's chosen vehicle for exploring ensemble-based music in the so-called minimalist tra...
Reviews My Morning Jacket's 'The Waterfall II' Is the Culmination of a Creative Explosion To record what would become 2015's The Waterfall and 2020's The Waterfall II, My Morning Jacket decamped to a hilltop mansion in Stinson Bea...
Reviews The Chicks Are Meaner and More Pop-Friendly Than Ever on 'Gaslighter' The Chicks were always firebrands; truth tellers with a sharp eye for social commentary. But in the relatively quiet years since 2006's Taki...
Reviews Dehd Turn Simplicity into Transcendence on 'Flower of Devotion' Self-sufficiency, drive, motivation – concepts soured by a world that demands you pull everything from yourself and work until you find enli...
Reviews Tei Shi Dances Through Disaster on 'Die 4 Your Love' Tei Shi dances you out of your slumber with her uplifting breakup EP Die 4 Your Love. The on-form Columbian-Canadian artist combines '80s sy...
Reviews Ellie Goulding's 'Brightest Blue' Is Part Pop Juggernaut, Part Diary Entry It's been a long road for Ellie Goulding fans who have patiently waited over five years for the British pop singer to release her fourth stu...
Reviews Jarvis Cocker's New Band JARV IS... Are Witty but Inconsistent on 'Beyond the Pale' As Jarvis Cocker enters what is technically his sixth active decade in the music industry, Beyond the Pale finds him as witty as ever, if sl...
Reviews Nicolás Jaar's 'Telas' Is a Cosmic Voyage Through an Ambient Universe Nicolás Jaar's Telas brings to mind nascent stars and galaxies, protean adaptations, and ever-expanding space. The album's complex design an...
Reviews Clairmont The Second Carves Out His Own Lane on 'It's Not How It Sounds' There's something alluring about the risks that Toronto MC Clairmont The Second continues to take with his music. Following up last year's D...
Reviews Gang of Four's 'Anti Hero' EP Is a Fitting Farewell to Andy Gill A lot can happen to a band whose history spans 10 albums and over 40 years. With a handful of brief hiatuses and a plethora of bandmates ent...
Reviews Fake Shark Fill Their 'House of Mirrors' with Relatable Pop Gems The seven songs on House of Mirrors present the listener with a healthy range of human emotions delivered through highly refined, succinct,...
Reviews The 'Toronto DIY (2008-2013)' Photo Book Wistfully Recalls an Era When Sweaty Punk Shows Were Still an Option By Sean DeCory How do you feel about the outlook of local music in your city right now? Are your venues and rehearsal spaces closing? Was this already happ...