Charmer Ivy

Published Apr 01, 2020

Newly emerging from northern Michigan, Charmer sound exactly like an emo band from the Midwest. The easiest comparison here is Tigers Jaw, n...

Nightwell Nightwell

Published Mar 31, 2020

For the last few years, Nightwell have been among the Ontario alt-rock scene's best-kept secrets. The Toronto band have released a steady st...

Brian Fallon Local Honey

Published Mar 25, 2020

Brian Fallon earned a reputation for fast-paced heartland rock songs with the Gaslight Anthem, but he'd always slip in one or two impassione...

Here's How Hard Canadian Musicians Will Be Hit by COVID-19 — and How Fans Can Help

Published Mar 17, 2020

Pretty Matty were just beginning their U.S. tour when things felt wrong. The Toronto power pop band had just hit the road, and their firs...

Dogleg Melee

Published Mar 11, 2020

Dogleg built up quite a bit of buzz ahead of their debut album. Three years after the Michigan punk band first started making noise, they si...

​With Their Latest Juno Nomination, the Dirty Nil Are the Underdogs of Canadian Rock

Published Mar 06, 2020

The Dirty Nil are a rock band.   Normally that would be a boring and obvious observation, but it's a descriptor the band have been chasing...

Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine

Published Mar 03, 2020

In the last couple of years, Hot Mulligan have emerged as one of those bands for people in certain alt-rock circles to keep an eye on. The M...

Worriers You or Someone You Know

Published Mar 03, 2020

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Lauren Denitzio doesn't know what to feel. The singer-songwriter's punk band Worriers makes ano...

A Radical Act: Canadian Musicians in Conversation About Being Sober in an Industry Built on Booze

Published Feb 28, 2020

In the life of a musician, it's lamentably easy to fall into substance abuse.   It's a career that comes with a highly social lifestyle. M...

Ratboys Printer's Devil

Published Feb 26, 2020

For the first time in their lives as a band, singer-songwriter Julia Steiner and multi-instrumentalist Dave Sagan have some stability. The d...

Empty Country Empty Country

Published Feb 11, 2020

Over the course of ten years, New York-based band Cymbals Eat Guitars evolved from a Wrens-worshipping group into a crowd-rousing rock band...

Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone

Published Feb 06, 2020

Los Angeles punk band Spanish Love Songs started making a bit of a stir in 2018 with their second album, Schmaltz, a viscerally candid recor...

Poppy I Disagree

Published Jan 08, 2020

You could spend hours going down the rabbit hole of weird lore behind the enigmatic internet celebrity called Poppy. She is part singer, par...

The Honest Heart Collective Live at the Horseshoe

Published Jan 03, 2020

The Honest Heart Collective have to be one of Canada's most underrated rock bands. For the past six years or so, the Thunder Bay group have...

Origami Angel Somewhere City

Published Nov 28, 2019

Welcome to the utopian metropolis of Somewhere City, a place where the drive-thru windows are open all night and Dr. Pepper flows from fount...

Turnover Altogether

Published Oct 31, 2019

Turnover are, as some say, a vibe. The band entered their sun-kissed dream pop phase with 2017's Good Nature, a mellowed-out search for pers...

Young Guv GUV II

Published Oct 23, 2019

But wait, there's more! Ben Cook, best known as a member of Toronto punk bands Fucked Up and No Warning, has come out with his solo project...

Ariel View Until My Lungs Are Cleared

Published Oct 16, 2019

Californians Ariel View seem determined to take the lingering effects of heartbreak and turn them into a forceful form of healing. Led by si...

The Menzingers Hello Exile

Published Oct 02, 2019

In one of the more profound moments in sitcom history, fictional Andy Bernard says, in the finale of The Office, "I wish there was a way to...

Blink-182 NINE

Published Sep 18, 2019

After years of uncertainty and a seemingly unthinkable yet inevitable member shakeup, it was a bit of a surprise when Blink-182 — a band mor...