Small Sins Turn Back the Clock on 'Volume II'

Published Feb 11, 2021

Getting older sucks. You're slower, you feel out of touch, hangovers hurt more and linger longer. Doors also start closing. Those things you...

Claud Levels Up While Staying True to Their Bedroom Pop Roots on 'Super Monster'

Published Feb 10, 2021

How do you take your music to the next level without losing what made it special in the first place? This is the dilemma faced by any artist...

You Might Not Know Bob Wiseman's Name, but You'll Appreciate His 'Music Lessons'

Published Dec 11, 2020

Bob Wiseman has been many things in his long career — founding member of Blue Rodeo, solo artist, experimental musician, sideman and teacher...

Ryan Hemsworth Brings His Love of Emo to the Fore on 'Quarter-Life Crisis'

Published Dec 08, 2020

Though he's most often considered an electronic artist, indie rock and pop-punk have been regular influences in Ryan Hemsworth's music for y...

Partner 'Never Give Up' on Their Quest to Share the Power of Rock Music

Published Nov 18, 2020

Partner's debut, 2017's In Search of Lost Time, filtered classic rock riffs through a Weezer-esque alt-rock lens, but it was the band's penc...

Salem Don't Get with the Times on Comeback Album 'Fires in Heaven'

Published Oct 29, 2020

Between 2008 and 2011, Salem burned bright. During these three years, the Michigan-based trio released a handful of EPs and their lone album...

Bad Religion Autobiography 'Do What You Want' Is Compelling but Sanitized Account of the Punk Icons By Bad Religion and Jim Ruland

Published Oct 14, 2020

Forty years is a long life for any band, let alone one who've had as many ups and downs as Bad Religion. Through break-ups, addiction, major...

Supercrush Worship at the '90s Power Pop Altar on 'SODO Pop'

Published Oct 09, 2020

Mark Palm has been around the musical block. He's done time in Vancouver punks Reserve 34, Seattle metal outfit Black Breath and San Francis...

'Topp: Promoter Gary Topp Brought Us the World' Is a Deeply Affecting Tribute to One of Toronto's Unsung Rock Heroes By David Collier with Gary Topp and Patrick Lee

Published Sep 17, 2020

Rock history has little love for promoters. Over the genre's 65 years, promoters, the folks who book artists into venues, tend to be portray...

Fontaines D.C. Are as Uncertain as Ever, in a Good Way, on 'A Hero's Death'

Published Jul 31, 2020

What do you do when all your dreams have come true? This is the question that haunts A Hero's Death, the sophomore album from Dublin post-pu...

The Streets Stick to What They're Good at on 'None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive'

Published Jul 09, 2020

Few artists have managed to bottle the feeling of being a young, modern English urbanite quite like Mike Skinner. An everyman MC straddling...

100 gecs' Star-Studded 'Tree of Clues' Remix Album Proves the Haters Wrong

Published Jul 09, 2020

100 gecs tend to elicit a lot of strong opinions, as well as a lot of questions: Are they for real? Did they just call someone a "piss baby?...

With 'Women in Music Pt. III,' HAIM Finally Have an Album That Lives Up to Their Incredible Shows

Published Jun 26, 2020

There's always been an incongruity between HAIM in the studio and HAIM on stage. Whereas the trio's first two albums were polished and smoot...

Japandroids Prove Themselves Worthy of 'Massey Fucking Hall' on Triumphant Live Album

Published Jun 23, 2020

Japandroids seem tailored for the live experience – made up of shredding guitar, pounding drums and gang-vocal "whoa-oh" choruses, their mus...

Reunited CanRock Heroes Sleepless Nights Improve Upon Their Legacy with 'Every Word Is a Trap'

Published May 29, 2020

Sleepless Nights' star burned bright in the late aughts, before the band's 2009 disillusion. Yet the band's legend – at least on Canada's Ea...

The 1975's 'Notes on a Conditional Form' Is Less Navel Gazey Than It Has Any Right to Be

Published May 22, 2020

The 1975 have built a career taking familiar sounds and pushing them into unfamiliar places. It's a thread that winds throughout their disco...

Wares Make Personal Struggles Universal on 'Survival'

Published Apr 23, 2020

In a world lurching from tragedy to crisis and back again on a weekly basis, the title of Wares' new album, Survival, is uncannily prescient...

Every City Needs a Book Like 'Any Night of the Week: A DIY History of Toronto Music, 1957–2001' By Jonny Dovercourt

Published Apr 16, 2020

There are plenty of city-specific music books and plenty of books about DIY music, but Any Night of the Week might be the first about a city...

Pearl Jam Gigaton

Published Mar 24, 2020

Throughout the '90s, Pearl Jam were one of the biggest and most creatively restless bands in alternative rock. The didn't make videos. They...

​Gordon Lightfoot on Meeting Miles, Canadian Canoe Trips and That One Time with Ozzy The Exclaim! Questionnaire

Published Mar 23, 2020

Few Canadian musicians — or musicians, period — are as revered as Gordon Lightfoot. Across a career that's entering its seventh decade, Ligh...