Broken Social Scene - Hug of Thunder Before taking a break of seven years from releasing albums, Broken Social Scene established itself as one of indie rock's most epic practitioners. The group's ambient, experimental 2001 [...]
In a case of "if you can do it why can't we" Arcade Fire decided that, if US 'it-girls' Kylie and Kendal Jenner could sell classic band T-shirts with their own image or logo superimposed [...]
Left on the dial No surprise, it's taken more than one radio station to replace Radio 3. "Replace" is the wrong word, because nothing will replace it. But S2W has assembled a listening roster that [...]
Doldrums - Esc (Dead Oceans) Montreal’s Doldrums certainly have a mastery of textures. On their latest release they take elegant melodies and dance-ready electronics and mash them together for a middle-ground between EDM and indie-rock. [...]
Ontario to ban scalper bots The Liberal government said Monday it will introduce new legislation this fall that will make automated ticket-buying "bots" illegal. It would also cap markups on resold tickets at 50 percent [...]
Bison (B.C.) - You Are Not the Ocean You Are the Patient In Europe, July 7th in North America You are not the ocean. You do not orchestrate a beautiful cacophony of life and death, [...]
If you are a regular here, and why wouldn't you be, you might be able to remember that we had the privilege of debuting Natural Sympathies' video for Moon Landing six weeks ago. Once again, [...]
SOCAN Awards Shine Bright Lights on Canada's Music Creators and Publishers Songwriters, composers and music publishers behind some of the biggest songs in the world gathered in Toronto Monday night – with a who's who [...]
This coming Friday will see the release of Jon Stancer's debut solo album For The Birds (iTunes preorder) on which, Toronto singer/songwriter Jon dabs his brush in many musical palettes. Produced by Jono Grant (John [...]
By Darlene Barss We have two playlists for you this week about the Polaris Music Prize Long List. One has a song representing each of the 40 albums that are on the official Long List. [...]