Photos by: Jaime Espinoza – Toronto-based synthpop band Austra, who released their third album, Future Politics, on January 20th, 2017 via Domino, which featured the singles “Utopia”, “Future Politics”, and “I Love You More than You Love Yourself”, performed at the Velvet Underground in Toronto last night (Dec. 14th) with indie rock singer-songwriter Devon Welsh, who is best known … Continue reading
Photos by: Anton Mak – UK pop singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, who released her self-titled debut album on June 2nd, 2017 via Warner Bros. Records, performed at Rebel in Toronto last night (Nov. 22nd).
Photos by: Caitlin Molton – Swedish synthpop artist Zara Larsson, who released her second album, So Good, on March 17th, 2017 via Epic, which featured the singles “Lush Life”, “Never Forget You”, “Ain’t My Fault”, “I Would Like”, “So Good”, “Symphony”, “Don’t Let Me Be Yours”, and “Only You”, performed at the O2 Academy Birmingham in Birmingham, UK last night (Oct. 25th) with Liverpool, … Continue reading
By: Staff – Montreal-native Sara Diamond is back with her latest single “Stay A Little”, which can be streamed below. Diamond, who got her first taste of stardom as a member of mid-2000s pop-rock girl group Clique Girlz, wrote “Stay A Little” at around 5:00 am right after a breakup. “Something in me told me to start writing, … Continue reading
Photos by: Justin Roth – Synthpop artist Washed Out, who released his third album, Mister Mellow, on June 30th, 2017 via Stones Throw, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on August 26th.
By: Staff – Indie dance duo Sofi Tukker today shares their defiant new single “Fuck They.” The bouncy, confident track was co-written with Scissor Sisters’ Jake Shears and Evermore’s Jon Hume. The group says “‘they’ is anything that holds you back from being who you are. Whoever ‘they’ is in your life or in your mind, Fuck They! Who’s … Continue reading
By: Staff – “First Fires” is an uplifting future-funk feel-good anthem that sees Shy Luv at their most exultant – and there’s plenty to celebrate. They’ve just played their first ever headline show in London which was completely sold out and they’ve amassed over three million combined streams with preceding singles “Shock Horror”, “Joyrider” … Continue reading
By: Staff – Zola Jesus has shared a new song titled “Soak”, the second song from her forthcoming album Okovi. urthering the intense narrative of Okovi, “Soak” is written through the lens of a serial killer’s victim, clinging to life and about to be dumped in the water. “I was thinking about this crucial moment inside the … Continue reading
Photos by: Alyssa Balistreri – New Zealand-based indie pop band Broods, who released their second album, Conscious, on June 24th, 2016 via Island/Capitol, performed at the Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night.
Photos by: Timothy Nguyen – Electropop artist Banks, who released her second album, The Altar, on September 30th, 2016 via Harvest, which featured the singles “Fuck with Myself”, “Gemini Feed”, “Mind Games”, and “To the Hilt”, performed at the Vogue Theatre in Vancouver last night with electronic artist IAmForest, who released his newest song “Atoms” on April 7th, 2017, which … Continue reading