Although there's been no news on whether or not the Vanilla Ice biopic To the Extreme starring Dave Franco is still in the works, the rapper...

The 2024 edition of Calgary Folk Music Festival's Block Heater 9.0 is arriving February 15 to 17, and it's bringing a whole bunch of rad art...

Has DaBaby undergone major character development? The North Carolina rapper recently made an appearance on the Club Shay Shay podcast, ho...

The Weeknd has donated the equivalent of four million emergency meals to Gazans who are at risk of starvation due to severe food shortages a...

In a somewhat surprising move, Drake and his team are resurrecting a long-dormant piece of 1980s art history. The rapper is bringing back Lu...

Lana Del Rey has been on country roads for a while now, having just wrapped a fall tour of the American South and Appalachia where she conne...

Montreal-founded collective Moonshine have announced that they'll share their first project under Aluna's brand new label in the new year. T...

Last year, Foreigner announced that they would be embarking on their farewell tour — but they've been waiting for a girl like you (a lady, i...

Alberta hard rockers Royal Tusk have announced the release of their third album Altruistic, arriving on March 8 via MNRK. The announcement i...

As part of the latest phase of the On the Road Again program, Live Nation has announced that it will be increasing the minimum wage of venue...

It's been just under a year since SZA released her star-marking sophomore record — the long-awaited CTRL follow-up, SOS — and it really seem...

Kaytranada is saying goodbye to 2023 with a little help from his friends, sharing two new collaborative singles to wrap up the year.  The...

With festival season firmly behind us, it's time to look ahead to the next round of food trucks, beer carts and nonstop music. Sunfest count...

Remember about a year ago when Ben Gibbard and co. broke our collective millennial hearts by announcing a co-headlining Postal Service and D...

Sufjan Stevens is pretty much always in the giving spirit. After delivering one of this year's best albums in the emotionally arresting Jave...

Here we go again. Ari Lennox is the latest performer to be forced to dodge projectiles mid-set, being subjected to a flying water bottle aim...

Last week, the news dropped that Daryl Hall had taken out a restraining order against his longtime music and business partner John Oates, an...

Move aside, U2: jam extraordinaires Phish are the next band scheduled to play the Sphere in Las Vegas. From April 18 to 21, the psych-roc...

Buffy Sainte-Marie's official website includes a biography section, which now no longer claims that the singer-songwriter/activist is a Cree...

Montreal's annual Taverne Tour festival will take over the city's downtown once more this February, and organizers have unveiled the prelimi...

Last month, Toronto's Ducks Ltd. shared the the frantic, jangly (obviously) new single "The Main Thing," and today sees the duo drop a new s...

Shane MacGowan of the Pogues has died. He was 65. MacGowan's wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, posted a tribute on Instagram, writing that the...

Dance-pop aficionado Empress Of has released her latest single, "Femenine," via her own label Major Arcana and through Giant Music. The trac...

Hot Hot Heat effectively broke up for the first time after the release of their 2010 LP Future Breeds, later reuniting in 2016 for a self-ti...

Barrie-based country rock musician Emmett Morris has just released his EP Emerald, a four-track project recorded at Toronto's Gold Standard...

It's officially the greatest time of year: year-end list season. Yesterday (November 30), we released our ranking of the 50 best albums of 2...

Beyoncé's RENAISSANCE concert film is in theatres starting today, and to celebrate the release she's shared the end-credits song "MY HOUSE,"...

Montreal polymath Ouri returns today with a mesmerizingly minimalistic double single, "blueprints of us" / "tame me." This release follow...

Yesterday (November 29) was an international holiday of sorts with the release of Spotify Wrapped, which annually allows us to have some del...

Non La, the indie pop songwriting project of Vancouver's DJ On, has signed with Mint Records and shared a new non-album single. A video for...

In 2024, Lakeith Stanfield will make the 180-degree transition from portraying the Judas to Daniel Kaluuya's Black Messiah, to usurping Jesu...

Dogstar — the grunge band that touts Keanu Reeves as their bassist — recently released their first album in 20 years, Somewhere Between the...

Brussels electro post-punks TUKAN have commemorated their time in Quebec this summer with a new single. A staple track from their live set h...

London, ON, punks and Exclaim! New Faves alumni Mvll Crimes have released a remastered version of their 2020 debut EP ROVDSIDE VTTRVCTIONS,...

Like many of us, Neil Young has loads more time on his hands now that he's not doomscrolling X (formerly Twitter). He's just released a new...

Dan Mangan has shared "All My People (Elsewhere Version)," a reimagined version of the track originally featured on his sixth album, Being S...

Toronto DIY-rock band the Effens have collaborated with local punk trio the OBGMs on a new song "Someone's Gonna Get You," out today. The...

Although it would be impossible to replicate the chokehold that Mariah Carey has on the holiday season, Michael Bublé might be her CanCon co...

Somehow, Dolly Parton has more energy at 77 years old than I do at 25. The absolute legend performed at the Thanksgiving NFL game between th...

Happy Black Friday, fellow dwellers of whatever late-stage capitalism we're under now! This is a day dedicated to hot deals, but why not pun...

Atlanta's lo-fi pop duo Coco & Clair Clair are celebrating the holiday season with the release of "Last Christmas." The pair — consisting...

Last night, Charly Bliss and Peach Fuzz released their inhibitions, felt the rain on their skin and covered Natasha Bedingfield.  At a jo...

With frigid winter weather slowly creeping toward us, Winnipeg folk musician William Prince stopped by the NPR office to play a warm, cozy a...

Sleaford Mods have shared a cover of the Pet Shop Boys classic "West End Girls," giving it their typical lad-like spin. It'll be released as...

Thermal's music feels like a heaving chest, heavy with the weight of thick guitar fuzz, claustrophobic emotional landscapes and a racing hea...

PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love is a career-defining high watermark in a career full of them, but it didn't exactly leave a long sonic shad...

Forty three years since their inception, Depeche Mode still have plenty of life left. The English new wave band — now a duo consisting of su...

After introducing themselves brilliantly on their eponymous 2021 EP, moondoggy have reaffirmed their position at the forefront of Toronto's...

Toward the end of 2022, Boldy James and Nicholas Craven delivered a winning cross-border collaboration in the solemn, wintry Fair Exchange N...

Two years on from 2021's excellent Big Blue and most of a year removed from last winter's The Runaway EP, Vancouver songwriter Kylie V picks...

A name like Cowboy Witchcraft conjures images of gothic country rock — gauzy gowns and black ten gallon hats, tumbleweeds rolling through th...

Recontextualizing one of Bob Dylan's most divisive live albums, The Complete Budokan 1978 proves that "less is more" isn't necessarily alway...

"This rap shit done saved my life / And fucked it up at the same time," Danny Brown states at the top of Quaranta, his ferociously sincere s...

Kirsten Ludwig makes songs that feel small and intimate, but rather than let them drift by in gauzy fabrics and gentle half-light, she plate...

Is star 69 still a thing? At a time when calling someone on the phone feels inherently retro, Born at Midnite release "*69," a yearning pop...

"These recycled riffs ain't going anywhere, anytime soon," stammers Kurt Vile on his latest EP's title track. Riffs, lyrics, melodies — call...

At only 24 years old, MJ Lenderman has accomplished a lot. He plays guitar and sings back-up in Wednesday, the much celebrated (and rightful...

KISS graced Edmonton's Rogers Place with one last performance, and it was hotter than hell. Fans young and old crowded into the downtown are...

Mac DeMarco is one of the best singers in the biz, so his recent focus on instrumental music has been a little frustrating. Just listen to h...

How much art can we chalk up to shitty dads? Like so many from his generation, Brian Jones's parents — particularly his father, Lewis — just...

"This song is about being sexually possessed," Sasami told the crowd at History. "I dedicate it to Karen O."  The song in question was a...

"I am not your internet baby," PinkPantheress sings on her debut album Heaven knows — a repeated refrain in which she explicitly distances h...

The Beaches — Toronto's TikTok-savvy, boyfriend-busting sensations — brought their ground-shaking Blame My Ex tour to Edmonton's Midway Musi...

Chris Stapleton was writing music in Nashville decades before he ventured out on his own in 2015 with Traveller. Since then, Stapleton has e...

Some just pop the balloon, others untie the knot and apply pressure to let the air out slowly. Pony Girl's new album is an exercise in the l...

Almost 60 years after his mythic performance at the Manchester Free Trade Hall, we're still talking about Robert Zimmerman. The infamous aco...