Photos by: Gunnar Mallon – Danish folk singer-songwriter Agnes Obel, who released her third album, Citizen of Glass, on October 21st, 2016 via Play It Again Sam, which followed up her 2013 album, Aventine, which charted inside the top 40 of the charts in nine countries, and which featured the singles “The Curse”, “Fuel to Fire”, and “Dorian”, performed at … Continue reading
Photos by: Adam Horton – UK folk-rock singer-songwriter David Gray, who released his fourth compilation album, The Best of David Gray, on October 28th, 2016 via IHT Records, performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto last night.
By: Staff – Matthew Good has gone into the famous Bathouse Recording Studio to record new versions of select songs from his most iconic album, Beautiful Midnight. Good will celebrate the release of this EP, titled I Miss New Wave: Beautiful Midnight Revisited with a 28 date Canadian tour, in which he will perform Beautiful Midnight in its entirety. Fans who purchase tickets … Continue reading
Photos by: Morgan Hotston – Irish alternative R&B singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow, who released his third album, We Move, on September 2nd, 2016 via Mahogany Books/Burning Rope, which was produced in part by Nineteen85 and Frank Dukes, and which followed up his 2014 album, Post Tropical, which McMorrow recorded in 2013 in the small desert town of Tornillo, Texas, performed at the … Continue reading
Photos by: Dan Fischer – New York City-based singer, songwriter, activist, director, and blogger Amanda Palmer, who released a book called The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, on November 11th, 2014, which is partly based on Palmer’s successful fundraising of $1.2 million in a Kickstarter campaign to produce her 2012 album, Theater is … Continue reading
By: Staff – Update: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has paid tribute to Leonard Cohen in a statement. Read it below. “It is with deep sorrow that I learned today of the death of the legendary Leonard Cohen. “A most remarkable Montrealer, Leonard Cohen managed to reach the highest of artistic achievement, both as an acclaimed poet and … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey – Multi-platinum, Juno Award winning artist, best selling author, entrepreneur and keynote speaker, David Usher is back with his new solo album Let It Play. The album, which consists of English adaptations of French songs from new young pop artists to the elder statesmen of Quebec music, is a commentary on English/French culture co-existing, yet … Continue reading
Photos by: Priti Shikotra – Singer-songwriter The Japanese House, who will release her new EP, Swim Against The Tide, on November 11th via Interscope, performed at Club Academy in Manchester, UK last night.
Photos by: Tyler Roberts – Toronto-based alt country singer-songwriter Justin Rutledge, who released his seventh album, East, on September 23rd via Outside Music, which followed up his 2014 album, Daredevils, which consisted entirely of Tragically Hip covers performed by Rutledge and an array of guest musicians including Broken Social Scene’s Brendan Canning, Jenn Grant, Andy Maize, and Mary … Continue reading
Photos by: Janine Wong – Indie Pop singer-songwriter Regina Spektor, who released her seventh album, Remember Us To Life, on September 30th, 2016 via Warner Bros/Sire, which featured the singles “Bleeding Heart”, “Small Bill$”, “Black and White”, and “Older and Taller”, performed at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto last night.