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...

Tegan and Sara Hey, I'm Just Like You

Published Sep 30, 2019

While compiling research for their new memoir, High School, Tegan and Sara found cassette tapes of songs they wrote and recorded between the...

Alaskan Tapes Views From Sixteen Stories

Published Sep 26, 2019

As Alaskan Tapes, Brady Kendall crafts pieces that accommodate all types of listeners: the casual, the serious, and even the sleepy, as Kend...

'Orphan Black' Star Évelyne Brochu's 'Objets perdus' Is a "Bit of Tenderness" in Aggressive Times

Published Sep 23, 2019

"Sometimes love stories lead to art, but sometimes friendship stories do too," Montreal-based actor and musician Évelyne Brochu says in an i...

Évelyne Brochu Objets perdus

Published Sep 23, 2019

Objets perdus, the debut album from Montreal-based musician and actor Évelyne Brochu, is cast in the soft light of a late summer's evening....

Tegan and Sara Looked to the Past for Their New Album and Memoir — and Found Their Present Selves

Published Sep 20, 2019

"This is not nostalgia," asserts Tegan and Sara's Sara Quin, in an interview with Exclaim! about the duo's memoir and new album, Hey, I'm Ju...

Alaskan Tapes Will Put You to Sleep, If You Want — But He'd Rather Not

Published Sep 19, 2019

For many people, Spotify is a sleep-aid. The streaming platform curates dozens of playlists aimed to help listeners fall asleep, the most po...

The Highwomen The Highwomen

Published Sep 06, 2019

The Highwomen came to be in 2016, when Amanda Shires had the idea to put together an all-female country supergroup, partly in response to th...

Fionn Regan Cala

Published Aug 23, 2019

Not unlike his previous record, 2017's The Meetings of the Waters, Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan fixates on water on his sixth album,...

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...