News Nick Cave Blasts Cancel Culture and Its "Asphyxiating Effect on the Creative Soul of a Society" Never one to be shy about his opinions, Nick Cave has taken a swipe at "cancel culture," letting us all know he's not down with the woke pol...
News Aquakultre and Uncle Fester Announce New Album 'Bleeding Gums Murphy' Fresh off the release of their Polaris Music Prize long-listed debut album Legacy, smooth Halifax quartet Aquakultre are teaming up with DJ...
News Future Islands Detail New Album 'As Long As You Are' Future Islands have returned with details of a new album. Now officially a four-piece, the band will share As Long As You Are on October 9 t...
News Geddy Lee Cardboard Cutout Attends Blue Jays Game Professional sports may be limited to due COVID-19 here at home, but south of the border, Major League Baseball is warming up its bases — an...
News Cardi B Joins OnlyFans, Calls Vinyl Records "Vinyls" Like it or not, 2020 is shaping up to be the year of "WAP." As such, Cardi B has decided to join the online home of many WAPs by launching h...
News Keaton Henson Unveils New Album 'Monument' English singer-songwriter Keaton Henson has announced plans for a new album titled Monument. The record is out on October 23 via Play It Aga...
News Neil Young Is Spending Nearly $20,000 to "Disengage" from Google and Facebook While Neil Young recently launched a legal war against Donald Trump, he's now starting another political battle — this time with big tech. A...
News The Knife Are Teasing Something Now-defunct Swedish electronic duo the Knife are celebrating 20 years since the band's inception with a mysterious new post, teasing — well,...
News Tool Could "Maybe Knock Out Another EP" While Not Touring, Says Drummer Danny Carey Last month, Tool were forced to cancel their North American tour due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the prospect of even more time off the ro...
News Queen Guitarist Brian May Thanks U.K. Firefighters for Saving His Home from Wildfire As if Brian May wasn't already having a tough year — between coronavirus lockdown and battling numerous health issues, including suffering a...
News Nas Teases New Project with Hit-Boy After hinting at a collaboration earlier this year, Nas and Hit-Boy have shared a release date for their latest work. On their respective...
News Has Drake's More Life Growth Co. Gone Up in Smoke? Last November, Drake announced plans to enter the legal cannabis industry with More Life Growth Co., a joint venture with Canopy Growth cent...
News Helena Deland Announces Debut Album 'Someone New' Helena Deland has at last announced her debut album. Called Someone New, the first album by the Montreal artist will arrive on October 16 vi...
News Madonna Is Writing a Screenplay with Diablo Cody There are likely countless people who have spent their quarantine time working on new screenplays, but if you're Madonna you can get some he...
News Daniel Romano Unveils Another New Album 'How Ill Thy World Is Ordered' Continuing to be as prolific as ever, Daniel Romano is back with yet another new album in 2020. This one is coming from his Daniel Romano's...
News Jeff Tweedy Readies New Book 'How to Write One Song' Nearly two years on from sharing memoir Let's Go (So We Can Get Back), Jeff Tweedy has readied a new book. The Wilco leader will deliver How...
Features Kathleen Edwards on the Depression That Stopped Her Career — and the New Perspective That Brought Her Back Kathleen Edwards felt like she was on a hamster wheel. After more than a decade of grinding, she had achieved commercial and creative succes...
News Muse Are Releasing a Movie Connected to 'Simulation Theory' It's been two years since Muse released their Simulation Theory LP, but the U.K. dystopia rockers aren't done with the project just yet. Ins...
News The Mountain Goats Are 'Getting into Knives' on New Album The Mountain Goats returned to their boombox roots with Songs for Pierre Chuvin earlier this year, and now John Darnielle and his band have...
News Toronto Announces $2 Million Partnership to Support Black Music Industry Professionals Toronto has announced a new $2 million partnership to support the entry, retention and advancement of Black professionals in the city's musi...
News R.I.P. Iron Maiden and Deep Purple Producer Martin Birch Martin Birch— an English music producer and engineer who worked on iconic albums from the likes of Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Whitesnake and...
News Turns Out a Bunch of Pop Songs Sound Exactly Like Pachelbel's "Canon in D" Have you ever wondered what makes pop songs dang catchy? If the production is clean, the vocals ring true and the visual components slap, an...
Streams IDLES Team with Michel Gondry for "Model Village" Video Ahead of unleashing new album Ultra Mono next month, IDLES have rolled out a new video for album cut "Model Village." The animated visual...
Streams Juice WRLD Gets His Wings in New "Smile" Video After Juice WRLD and the Weeknd connected on "Smile," the late rapper's posthumous collaboration with the Canadian R&B titan has got its own...
Streams Eels Returns with New Song "Baby Let's Make It Real" Eels have emerged today to give us a new single called "Baby Let's Make It Real," marking the long-running project's first new material in t...
Streams Refused Share New 'Cyberpunk 2077' Song "A Like Supreme" Last night, we got a pair of new Cyberpunk 2077 trailers, letting us in on lifepaths and weaponry. But while that was more than enough juicy...
Streams Atsuko Chiba Get Vertical in Trippy "Pawn to King I" Video Montreal-based psych rockers Atsuko Chiba have been keeping things trippy with their densely layered sound, and their new video keeps the di...
Streams Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis Covers 'The O.C.' Theme Song Seventeen years ago, Ryan Atwood first graced the shores of California's Orange County and immediately started kicking ass. His dramatic, vi...
Streams Emay Returns with "Republic of New Afrika" Emay has returned with a new song. You can stream and purchase the Edmonton-via-Hamilton artist's "Republic of New Afrika" in the player bel...
Streams Watch Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's Video for "WAP" After teasing the track earlier this week, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have shared collaborative single "WAP," and it arrives alongside...
Streams Here Are the Folk Covers of Blink-182, Sum 41 and Kid Cudi You Didn't Know You Needed Following the release of his Phoebe Bridgers-produced debut album Beginners, Los Angeles folkster Christian Lee Hutson has now shared a thre...
Streams Best Coast Rework "Boyfriend" for LGBTQ+ Benefit To mark 10 years since the release of Best Coast's formative single "Boyfriend," the band have shared an updated version of the track, compl...
Streams 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne Connect on "Money Maker" 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne have come together for a new single. You can hear the pair trade bars on "Money Maker" below. The horn-laden track...
Streams Chika Drops Summer Love Song "U Should" Following the release of her major-label debut EP Industry Games, Los Angeles rapper Chika has been spending her time — between anti-racism...
Streams Anderson .Paak Gets Noname, J.I.D and Jay Rock for "Lockdown" Remix Back in the early days of summer, Anderson .Paak returned with an anti-police brutality anthem, "Lockdown," to mark Juneteenth. Now, the art...
Streams Myles Castello Shares Dreamy Summer Single "Sangria" Following up his virtual North American tour, Scarborough R&B artist Myles Castello has been keeping busy recording tracks for his next proj...
Streams Drake Teams Up with Popcaan for Two New Songs Fresh out of scented candles, Drake has returned to music, appearing on two new tracks from dancehall star Popcaan. Popcaan has just rele...
Streams Watch the Sword Cover Rush's "Working Man" Before the pandemic upended live music, the Sword were set to accompany Primus for a tour on which the headliners would perform Rush's A Far...
Streams Tame Impala Embrace VHS Psychedelia in "Is It True" Video Riding the waves of their 2020 studio release The Slow Rush, Tame Impala have shared a new music video for "Is It True." Putting mastermi...
Streams Blink-182 Curse COVID-19 on New Single "Quarantine" Omnipresent pop-punk mainstays Blink-182 have finally made good on their promise to release a new song called "Quarantine." And if you're no...
Streams The Rolling Stones Get Paul Mescal for New "Scarlet" Video The Rolling Stones are treating us to a new music vid to their recently shared "Scarlet" — the band's collaboration with Led Zeppelin guitar...
Streams Flatbush Zombies and James Blake Team Up for "Afterlife" Flatbush Zombies are back with a new single, and they've roped in none other than James Blake to lend a hand. Together, they've released the...
Streams Bad Religion Share 2020 Version of "Faith Alone" Bad Religion have plenty of protest anthems across their storied catalogue, and the punk vets have now shared a reworked version of "Faith A...
Streams Hear the Microphones' First New Album in Nearly Two Decades Phil Elverum is about to leave Mount Eerie and go back to the Microphones for his first new album under his old moniker in 17 years. Microph...
Reviews Dog Day Tap into the Sounds of the Moment on Comeback Album 'Present' Seven years since 2013's Fade Out, Dog Day are back to release their seventh album. Present shows that creative duo Nancy Urich and Seth Smi...
Reviews Primitive Man's 'Immersion' Is the Nihilistic Sound of Civilization's Downfall Existentially speaking, music allows us to reflect and share our perceptions of reality. With the current state of the world being one of un...
Reviews With 'Show Pony,' Orville Peck Solidifies His Place as One of Country's Greats In the two short years since releasing his debut single "Big Sky," masked heartthrob Orville Peck has experienced a meteoric rise from local...
Reviews Jim O'Rourke's 'Shutting Down Here' Favours Subtle Contemplation over Big Payoffs With Shutting Down Here, singer-songwriter, composer and former Sonic Youth member Jim O'Rourke elaborates on previous electronic forays, in...
Reviews Toronto Indie Rockers BLANKS Are Set to Break Out with Debut EP 'Beyond These Walls' Beyond These Walls, the debut EP by Toronto-based power popsters BLANKS, is so great I wish it were a full-length album. Packing a new wave-...
Reviews Terminal Nation Remind Us That Humanity Is Screwed with 'Holocene Extinction' On the provocatively titled Holocene Extinction, Arkansas bruisers Terminal Nation make two things abundantly clear: they're not here to min...
Reviews Black Crown Initiate's 'Violent Portraits of Doomed Escape' Is an Extreme Metal Triumph The biggest names in metal have been pretty quiet this year, at least where new studio material is concerned. There have been albums release...
Reviews Double Grave Bid Farewell to Lost Dreams on 'Goodbye, Nowhere!' Double Grave's sound on their latest album, Goodbye, Nowhere!, could be described as avant-garde grunge or Dadaist pop — like a Kool-Aid-ins...
Reviews L'Orange and Solemn Brigham Bring Together Superb Sampling and Biting Rhymes on 'Marlowe 2' Seattle-based hip-hop producer L'Orange and North Carolina rapper Solemn Brigham have only been creating music together as Marlowe since 201...
Reviews Washed Out Is Back in His Reverb-Heavy Niche on 'Purple Noon' After branching out on 2017's beat-driven Mister Mellow, with its hip-hop influences and largely instrumental soundscapes, Washed Out has re...
Reviews Jaga Jazzist Can't Find Their Focus on 'Pyramid' Since the release of their debut LP in 1996, Jaga Jazzist always felt like the most forward-looking members of the Scandinavian jazz scene,...
Reviews Jody Glenham's Emotionally Complex 'Mood Rock' Offers Exactly What the Title Promises Jody Glenham's latest album, Mood Rock, has a perfectly fitting title, with a moody pop sound — like a pink plastic glittery mood ring. With...
Reviews Steve Von Till's 'No Wilderness Deep Enough' Is Perfect for Getting Lost In Steve Von Till's fifth solo retreat, No Wilderness Deep Enough, is an exquisitely immersive listen. Best known as guitarist and vocalist for...
Reviews Jason Molina's Posthumous 'Eight Gates' Sounds Incomplete, but It's a Treat for Dedicated Fans The nine songs on Eight Gates comprise the last batch of recordings made by Jason Molina before his death in 2013. Several of the tracks suc...
Reviews Matthew Grimson's Posthumous 'Prize for Writing' Finally Brings the Halifax Hero to the Rest of the World It's a late July evening in 2018, and there's barely room to stand in Gus' Pub — an unofficial landmark in Halifax's live music scene. From...
Reviews Misery Signals Prove Why They're Metalcore Survivors on 'Ultraviolet' In a genre where bands have come and gone, who found mainstream success when the metalcore scene was at its peak and then faded into obscuri...
Reviews Snakeblade Goes Beyond Black Metal Trappings on 'The Kingdom' While the world was put on pause by the coronavirus lockdown, East Vancouver native Mike Redston used his time to record the debut album for...
Reviews Fast Romantics Get Down to Earth on 'Pick It Up' Fast Romantics are based in Toronto, but two members — Matthew Angus and Jeffrey Lewis — hail from Calgary, and other members have rural upb...
Reviews Æpoch Work to Establish Their Own Sound on 'The Scryer' As lo-fi basement black metal and carbon copy metalcore bands seem to be dominating heavy metal's creative output during COVID, it's great t...
Reviews New Fries Streamline Their Esoteric Sound on 'The Idea of Us' New Fries are a hard band to pin down. Unconcerned with traditional songwriting, the Toronto no wave group have made their name on short, pr...
Reviews Flo Milli's Confidence Is Infectious on Debut Mixtape 'Ho, why is you here ?' On Flo Milli's new mixtape Ho, why is you here ?, the 20-year-old viral sensation spits out the cadence of a refined rapper met with the flo...
Reviews 'Microphones in 2020' Crystallizes Phil Elverum's Lifetime of Soul-Searching As a society, we are stuck. At a time when the present moment seems so overwhelming and confusing, sometimes the only places we can turn to...