Angie McMahon Salt

Published Jul 24, 2019

On her debut album, Salt, Melbourne, Australia-based singer-songwriter Angie McMahon is looking for her place in the world. On the standout...

​Ada Lea's Debut Album Makes 'what we say in private' Public

Published Jul 17, 2019

On the cover of her debut album what we say in private, Alexandra Levy (better known as Ada Lea) stoically looks into the camera while holdi...

Ada Lea what we say in private

Published Jul 16, 2019

When her relationship ended, Alexandra Levy (Ada Lea) wrote in her journal for 180 days as a way to work through her emotions and reconnect...

At Jonas Bonnetta's Port William Sound Studio, Beauty Is the Only Distraction

Published Jul 10, 2019

At the dead end of a tree-lined, gravel sideroad in Mountain Grove, ON — a sleepy rural town located about an hour north of Kingston and 90...

Why Karen Carpenter Matters By Karen Tongson

Published Jul 08, 2019

On the Carpenters' song "I Won't Last A Day Without You" — a typical soft-rock love ballad from the brother-sister duo — Karen Carpenter, in...

Bedouine Lets Go, Opens Up on New Album 'Bird Songs of a Killjoy'

Published Jun 22, 2019

Bedouine's new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy (out now via Spacebomb Records), is centred on letting go. Bedouine's Azniv Korkejian retur...

Bedouine Bird Songs of a Killjoy

Published Jun 21, 2019

Listening to Bedouine feels like riding a bike down an empty street on a warm evening. L.A.-based singer-songwriter Azniv Korkejian makes pe...

Calexico / Iron & Wine Years to Burn

Published Jun 12, 2019

Almost 15 years after hushed folk singer Iron & Wine (Sam Beam) teamed up with the Latin-infused country group Calexico on the beguiling EP...

Jenn Grant Love, Inevitable

Published Jun 03, 2019

What does it feel like to be floating in the abyss of uncertainty? On her seventh record, Love, Inevitable, Jenn Grant suggests that living...

Jenn Grant Confronted Uncertainty, Found 'Love, Inevitable' on Her New Album

Published May 28, 2019

In the ebullient chorus of "Raven," the opening track of Jenn Grant's new album Love, Inevitable, Grant brightly makes a confession that's b...

Misha Bower Trying to Have It All

Published May 21, 2019

On her debut solo album, London, ON-based artist Misha Bower — co-founder of the sprawling experimental rock band Bruce Peninsula — is a sto...

Heather Woods Broderick Invitation

Published May 06, 2019

Heather Woods Broderick devised her third album, Invitation, on the Oregon coast. Even if you skipped this fact when reading the album's lin...

Aldous Harding Designer

Published Apr 30, 2019

Aldous Harding's abstract songwriting left listeners of her past two records confused yet enchanted, and the experience remains for her thir...

Aldous Harding's 'Designer' Dances on "Different Feet"

Published Apr 24, 2019

Aldous (Hannah) Harding is happy that her music makes people feel uncertain. The New Zealand-born singer-songwriter recalls a special moment...

Justin Wright Music for Staying Warm

Published Apr 03, 2019

Music for Staying Warm is an antidote to anticipatory anxiety. The debut LP from Montreal composer and cellist Justin Wright — who has worke...

Justin Wright's Cello Masterwork 'Music for Staying Warm' Started as a Favour for a Friend

Published Apr 03, 2019

You may have heard Montreal-based composer Justin Wright play the cello without even realizing it. Though Wright's debut LP, Music for Stayi...

'Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs' Is Ambitious But Lacks Breadth By James Sullivan

Published Mar 25, 2019

American journalist James Sullivan has an ambitious goal for his latest book Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Pro...

Iron & Wine Our Endless Numbered Days (Deluxe Edition)

Published Mar 22, 2019

In 2002, Sam Beam (Iron & Wine), a soft-spoken father, husband and film professor residing in Florida, released a sparse, lo-fi debut, The C...

Lomelda M for Empathy

Published Mar 11, 2019

The music that Hannah Read makes as Lomelda is for quiet spaces. The soft, propulsive folk-rock of her LP Thx, a standout release from 2017,...

Patient Hands Stoic

Published Feb 25, 2019

Montreal's Alex Stooshinoff (Patient Hands) wrote his debut full-length, Stoic, immediately after coming out of a dark period. About this ti...