It’s an experience similar to listening to the new Boss Keloid album. But don’t worry, it’s a very good thing. If you haven’t encountered Boss Keloid, their sound is a progressive mixture of rock, ...

Like Roses have taken their influences and run with them. As we’re flung into ‘Nowhere’, the realisation hits; ‘After It Ends’ is the female response to all the whiney pop-punk protagonists who have ...

This is the one I’d play first if I could only play one. It’s about something I care about a lot: the moment you start calculating, you ruin things. A hundred-dollar bill waved in your face and ...

Moni Jitchell’s live set-up is stark; A drumkit, twelve strings, two amps, two people, one microphone. That’s basically the sound of ‘Aware’. It’s similar to bands like ’68 or Jamie Lenman’s new ...

Have you ever stared at an M.C. Escher painting? You know the ones. Where there’s a staircase that goes around and around but has no beginning or end. Or the flock of white birds flying one way and ...

Music can often feel like a journey. The listener is taken on an emotional ride with the musicians at the helm, inviting us to reflect on our own lived experiences as their music scores the way. The ...

Letters. It’s all about letters. A series of handwritten thoughts, captured in time. When Crystal Park sat down to write the lyrics for Initiate’s new EP, she saw it as a series of intimate ...

Often music trends come and go in cycles – “what old, is new again”. With an ethereal mix of grunge, rock, metal, and shoegaze in their sound, emerging Floridian quartet Moodring is stylistically ...

What’s the statute of limitations on genre “revivals”? Ten years? Twenty? What about the revival and/or reinvigoration of multiple genres simultaneously? Somehow, it’s been twelve years since the ...

During the spring, up at the lake, the birds make nests. If you head up there early morning, you can watch the hatchlings take to the water. They’re yellow, fluffy and cute. Within a few weeks that ...

Longevity is an underrated skill. To keep a band alive and still be making music years after breaking out is something to be valued. It takes persistence and commitment just to keep it going, let ...

What do you do after seven albums as Canada’s hardest band? Take a break of course, and after two decades of head-banging, Cancer Bats surely deserved their time off. ‘Give Me Dirt’, their latest ...