
Albums by the Avalanches used to introduce themselves like dreamy street festivals — crowd chatter, hot pavement, snippets of music — arrivi...
Albums by the Avalanches used to introduce themselves like dreamy street festivals — crowd chatter, hot pavement, snippets of music — arrivi...
An accordion's magic lies in its wonky instability. Even expertly played, there remains the feeling that one miscounted note or mashed key w...
While Dirty Projectors have always essentially been the Dave Longstreth show, it's no secret that it was the project's female members who ca...
If you want a masterclass in building a song that simmers without stagnating, "What We Have" is a good place to start. The opening track on...
For such improvisational, airy music, there's little breathing room on Matthew Cardinal's Asterisms — no long stretches of silence, no piece...
William Prince's Gospel First Nation is an incredibly complicated record that sounds like a summer breeze. Raised in Peguis First Nation, Pr...
Following years as a precious secret to a fortunate few, Beverly Glenn-Copeland has suddenly arrived. Now in his 70s, the songwriter and com...
There are few artists who are genuinely cool — self-possessed and unserious, powerful and vulnerable, the kind of person you want to impress...
Marie Davidson doesn't make untrue music. At its best, it feels like unbroken eye contact — her music is rarely cheerful, but it finds joy,...
Angel Deradoorian spent much of her career as a supporting player with Dirty Projectors, but her solo work has revealed an artist with a thr...
Certain records just reek of summer — hot pavement, bonfire smoke, cut grass and weed. Casual Fitness, the sophomore record from Calgary's J...
People had a lot of opinions about Krill — they were too juvenile, too cerebral, too self-aware, not self-aware enough. One thing that was d...
Pulling threads of light from some unknown place, illuminating the darkness to reveal silhouettes of memory – this is Angel Olsen's craft. S...
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek recently told artists that they "can't record music once every three to four years and think that's going to be enough...
Given her exhaustingly polarizing choke-hold on the public imagination, it can be hard to remember the whip-smart writer at the centre of th...
The Chicks were always firebrands; truth tellers with a sharp eye for social commentary. But in the relatively quiet years since 2006's Taki...
Self-sufficiency, drive, motivation – concepts soured by a world that demands you pull everything from yourself and work until you find enli...
The conversation surrounding Jessie Ware's luxurious What's Your Pleasure? has been a tug of war between reinvention and return to form — is...
Alejandra Ghersi's world isn't like our own. It's a deeper and more complex place – liberated from binary notions of beauty and ugliness, of...
Those looking to fill their Savages-shaped void may be thrown for a loop by Jehnny Beth's To Love Is to Live — though it carries much of the...