We've ranked all of our favourite albums of the year, but this list is nearly as important: It's a ranking of the most hotly anticipated alb...

New Year's Eve is the biggest party night of the year, and this means that concertgoers will want to choose wisely when deciding how to spen...

The year 2014 was full of some obvious trends, some good (like anything and everything Young Thug did) and, well, many bad. At the risk of w...

Starting with Tyga's 2012 hit "Rack City," DJ Mustard's involvement in rap music has — whether or not we'd like to admit it — pl...

Neither the 12-member supergroup nor barebones simplicity took hold as a prevalent theme in 2014 — like the very definition of folk/co...

Mocking metal is easy, but authentic parody is hard because the truth is always more over-the-top than any caricature. Between the endless s...

"Local" used to be a pejorative when it came to R&B in Toronto. When commercial urban radio first launched, they played good music and they...

The sublime Tanya Tagaq should be on anyone's short list of 2014's most noteworthy Canadian musicians. Over the course of five electrifying...

Even in the year that Yeezus shook the world, Daft Punk's epic disco suite Random Access Memories had a more tangible influence, yanking dis...

With the vinyl resurgence now bigger than ever, it seems the music industry is now just as focused on the past as it is on the present. As s...

For some reason, the music industry has long conflated singer and songwriter as if the acts of creation and expression were one job. But 201...