Photos by: Julian Avram – Australian indie pop singer-songwriter Vance Joy, who released his debut album, Dream Your Life Away, on September 5th, 2014 via Liberation Music, which included the singles “From Afar”, “Riptide”, “Mess Is Mine”, “First Time”, “Georgia” and “All I Ever Wanted”, performed at Massey Hall in Toronto last night as part of … Continue reading
By: Staff – CBC Music Festival returns to TD Echo Beach in Toronto on Saturday, May 28th. This special CBC event will showcase some of the country’s most talented musical acts, including Hey Rosetta!, Tanya Tagaq, Whitehorse, The Franklin Electric, Maestro, Zaki Ibrahim, Charlotte Cardin, Rich Terfry and the 2016 CBC Music Searchlight winner. Much more to be announced in the coming weeks. … Continue reading
By: Staff – Iggy Pop has announced a very limited run of one-time-only live performances in support of his new album Post Pop Depression. The Post Pop Depression tour will mark the sole occasion that the album lineup of Iggy, producer/guitarist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/bandleader Josh Homme, Homme’s Queens Of The Stone Age bandmate and Dead Weather-man Dean Fertita and Arctic Monkeys drummer … Continue reading
By: Staff – Modest Mouse and Brand New will tour together for a 24 show trek this June and July. The tour will see the bands share top billing, with Modest Mouse’s Facebook page describing the shows as “two bands, full sets, no opener.” Brand New released a collection of previously unreleased recordings on December … Continue reading
By: Staff – Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits) has announced the debut album for his band Operators, titled Blue Wave, out worldwide April 1st on Last Gang Records. Formed in 2013, the band features Boeckner on vocals, guitar, and synths and is joined by New Bomb Turks and Divine Fits drummer, Sam Brown, and electro-wiz, Devojka. … Continue reading
By: Staff – It’s been nearly two years since beloved Toronto punk band PUP released a new song and today, the wait is finally over. The ferocious four-piece have released “DVP”, a song that the band has been performing live since early 2014. After playing 300 shows in the last two years across North America, Europe, and … Continue reading
By: Staff – Montreal-based indie pop singer-songwriter Coeur de Pirate has released a new video for “I Don’t Want To Break Your Heart ”. Backed by reverb-drenched percussion and a sinewy but instantly hooky synth line, Coeur de Pirate remains softly, but fiercely, defiant in the face of love. “I Don’t Want To Break Your Heart ” is … Continue reading
By: Staff – The Subways, who are best known for their smash hit “Rock & Roll Queen”, will return to the U.S. for a much-anticipated North American tour, their first since 2008. The band will be on the road supporting their new self-titled album, which is set for a US/Canadian release on April 16, 2016 (Record … Continue reading
By: Staff – Montreal-based indie rock band Suuns will release their new album, Hold/Still, on April 15th via Secretly Canadian/Secret City. The third studio album from Suuns is an enigmatic thing: an eerily beautiful, meticulously played suite of music that embraces opposites and makes a virtue of cognitive dissonance. It is a record that does not give up its secrets easily. … Continue reading
By: Staff – Last September hip-hop auteurs Run The Jewels made music history when they unleashed the world’s first cat-rap charity album Meow The Jewels. Today, in conjunction with Adult Swim, the duo released a mind-altering video by esteemed cult video artist Cyriak for the album’s lead track “Meowpurrdy,” a remix by El-P that deposits his and Killer Mike’s vocal performances in the midst of a … Continue reading