
"Is this nice? Do you like it?" asks Devendra Banhart in the opening line on his tenth musical offering to the universe, Ma. Perhaps it asks...
"Is this nice? Do you like it?" asks Devendra Banhart in the opening line on his tenth musical offering to the universe, Ma. Perhaps it asks...
Ty Segall is having fun. So much so that on First Taste, he's shelved his signature fuzzed-out electric guitar for different flavours found...
Two releases this year simply could not satisfy the fertile mind of Daniel Romano, as Finally Free, his third LP of 2018, proves. Never has...
The release of Foxwarren's debut record couldn't be sweeter for Andy Shauf, certainly one of Canada's top melody makers. The band, which fea...
Here's Ty Segall, American fuzz-lord extraordinaire, serving up a record of covers sweetly named Fudge Sandwich. You can safely assume you'r...
Five years after the hugely successful AM and the hiatus that followed, Sheffield, UK's Arctic Monkeys are serving up perhaps their least co...
Listening to surf-noir group La Luz, one might assume the all-female foursome were born and bred in California, given their ability to sonic...
The Garrison was buzzing in advance of Toronto's FRIGS taking the stage. The room was dark aside from dim red and purple lights angled onto...
The album art for FRIGS' Basic Behaviour — digitally designed by Toronto artist Olenka Szymonski — features a nude woman chained with her ar...
Uncle, Duke and the Chief, the latest offering from Toronto-by-way-of-Midland, Ontario's Born Ruffians, truly feels like a return to form. I...
Californian king of the riff Ty Segall, now 30 and married, has grown in more ways than one. Freedom's Goblin is album number 10 for Segall...
Surprise, surprise, and cast your ears and eyes to not one, but two new releases from Welland's top musical shapeshifter Daniel Romano. Roma...
What Kind of Animal, the latest from Toronto's LUKA, comes with a suggestion from the mind behind it all, Luke Kuplowsky: "The record is a s...
Under an "adult-sized" mobile displaying a curious mix of glass orbs and brass ornaments, while a disco ball and wall of light panels sat do...
Australian trio the Babe Rainbow (who individually go by Jack "Cool-Breeze," Angus Darling The Hothouse Flower and Lu-Lu-Felix Domingo) are...
It's curious that record number 11 from Los Angeles' Ariel Pink (nee Rosenberg), Dedicated to Bobby Jameson, would be somewhat of a concept...
Hamilton's Aron D'Alesio is going it alone. His self-titled debut record is a lo-fi celebration of simplicity created in an isolated basemen...
Following years of fronting Hamilton band Young Rival, Aron D'Alesio has unveiled his debut solo release, conveniently and simply titled Aro...
New York City punk and pop icons Blondie brought a taste of their revered catalogue to the Sony Centre last night (July 26), to an absolutel...
Australia's King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard cross off album number two of the promised set of five to be released this year with Murder o...