Jennifer Castle's 'Monarch Season' Makes a Loud Impact with Hushed Folk

Published Oct 14, 2020

Every album that Jennifer Castle makes feels like a guidebook on how to live. On her previous two records released under her own name — 2014...

The Five Faces of Daniel Romano

Published Sep 29, 2020

Before 2020, Daniel Romano already had a well-rounded musical career with 13 records in a variety of musical styles, from folk and country t...

Inside Daniel Romano's Legendary 2020: How He Became Canada's Most Prolific Musical Genius

Published Sep 24, 2020

"I'm always making something," says Daniel Romano. "It's not necessarily music, but yes — I wake up every day and I work." This explains...

Phoebe Bridgers' Miraculous 'Punisher' Is Larger Than Life

Published Jun 17, 2020

The imagery Phoebe Bridgers uses on Punisher is ransacked from a pop-up Halloween store: there's ghosts, skeletons, dead bodies, and masks....

Camille Delean Slows Things Down to Mesmerizing Effect on 'Cold House Burning'

Published Jun 03, 2020

Camille Delean wrote her sophomore album Cold House Burning during an extended period of social isolation before social isolation was a nece...

Noah Reid's 'Gemini' Is Warm and Familiar — and Not Just Because You Know Him from 'Schitt's Creek'

Published May 28, 2020

The title of Noah Reid's sophomore album, Gemini, is a catch-all for his dualities. Reid, whose astrological sign is Gemini, splits his time...

How 'Schitt's Creek' Actor Noah Reid Turned His Big TV Moment into a Buzzing Music Career

Published May 25, 2020

In 2018, Toronto-based actor and musician Noah Reid found himself at the centre of a big pop culture moment.
 
During the fourth season o...

Campbell Woods' Yearning New Album Is a 'Keeper'

Published May 19, 2020

It's unclear what parts of Campbell Woods' sophomore record, Keeper, are fictitious and what is drawn from personal experience. What's a con...

Former Mauno Member Eliza Niemi Is Subtly Unpredictable on 'Glass' EP

Published Apr 22, 2020

As the bassist, keyboardist and vocalist of the now-defunct band Mauno, Eliza Niemi made angular, occasionally frantic pop-rock that jutted...

Laura Marling Song for Our Daughter

Published Apr 10, 2020

Since her 2013 masterpiece Once I Was an Eagle, Laura Marling hasn't been afraid to use grand gestures to deliver her songs. She has injecte...

Jennah Barry Holiday

Published Mar 26, 2020

About Holiday, Jennah Barry's first record since 2012's Young Men, Barry says it's an album "about ruminating." The songs came after Barry w...

Basia Bulat Are You in Love?

Published Mar 25, 2020

The cover for Are You in Love? is a painting of Basia Bulat by Toronto-based artist Kris Knight. It depicts Bulat basking in the sun with he...

Mandy Moore Silver Landings

Published Mar 06, 2020

It's hard to hear Mandy Moore's soft, sweet-sounding voice and not think about the many roles she's played over her 20-year career. In 1999,...

Frazey Ford U kin B the Sun

Published Feb 05, 2020

It's easy to get stuck in a pattern of negative thinking, and with the current state of the world, it doesn't feel like anything can jolt yo...

Class of 2020: The Mooks Are Driven to Rock

Published Jan 21, 2020

Although Toronto garage-rockers the Mooks formed just three years ago, the trio's respective careers span over a decade. Vocalist and guitar...

Nico Paulo Wave Call

Published Jan 16, 2020

Nico Paulo's debut EP, Wave Call, moves with steady gestures. Paulo, who immigrated to Canada from Portugal in 2014, reconciles with change...

The Highwomen and the Year of Brandi Carlile

Published Dec 11, 2019

From playing an instrumental role in the making of a music legend's comeback record to becoming part of a country supergroup with a purpose,...

Orville Peck Talks About His Breakthrough Year, Why the Mask Isn't a Mystery and Living His Sincere Truth

Published Dec 03, 2019

Country artist Orville Peck introduced himself to audiences in late 2018 with the psych-rock-doused country tune "Big Sky." In the single's...

Ellen Froese Fightin' Words

Published Nov 04, 2019

Saskatoon-based singer-songwriter Ellen Froese could share a stage with almost anybody, from Patsy Cline to k.d. lang to Daniel Romano (duri...

Rooms Like Sonology Don't Make Great Records, People Like Idée Fixe's Jeff McMurrich Do

Published Oct 21, 2019

If you were to walk through Bartlett Parkette, a small green space on Geary Avenue in the west end of Toronto, you would likely mistake the...