Canadian Music Week is only a few weeks away, and hundreds of musical acts are honing their chops in hopes of a perfect gig. One of those ac...

Janelle Monáe is once again hitting the road for a North American tour. And yes, it will be coming to Canada.  The trek is in support of...

This morning, Hot 97 host Ebro revealed details of a conversation he recently had with Kanye West, in which he claims the rapper declared hi...

Following the newly announced Festival Passport, Live Nation is launching National Concert Week, giving music fans a chance to catch a pile...

Franz Ferdinand released their latest LP of original material Always Ascending earlier this year, but while the Scottish indie rockers were...

Deep Purple and Judas Priest have announced plans to embark on a co-headlining tour across North America this summer.   The string of show...

Just over a month away from releasing their new LP Love Is Dead, Chvrches have now announced plans to take the album on tour later this year...

Beyoncé returned to her Coachella throne for the festival's second weekend on Saturday (April 21), making some conscious tweaks to her set —...

Over the course of ten albums and nearly two decades, Portland OR-based Laura Veirs has quietly and independently become one of the most wel...

Kanye West has revealed that he's produced a new Nas album. It's due out on June 15.   West made the announcement in his latest string of...

Shania Twain is a Canadian icon, but that evidently doesn't exclude her from getting involved in controversial debates about U.S. politics....

Beloved teen dramedy Freaks and Geeks is being toasted with a new documentary, directed by Canadian filmmaker Brent Hodge. With the film hit...

Further proving there is no bad blood, current Red Hot Chili Peppers members Flea and Josh Klinghoffer have paid tribute to former RHCP guit...

Beyoncé blew minds at Coachella last weekend, and before she does it all over again tomorrow night (April 21) for the festival's second week...

Swedish EDM superstar Avicii has passed away. The artist, born Tim Bergling, died at the age of 28. Though no cause of death has been rev...

Whether or not you're actually participating in today's 4/20 festivities, you'll undoubtedly feel your perspectives shift if you watch the n...

J. Cole's KOD is officially here, and if that wasn't already enough for you, the rapper has now shared a new video.  The clip is for albu...

88GLAM are making it official — the fast-rising Toronto hip-hop duo have signed to XO. And to celebrate, Derek Wise and 88 Camino have relea...

U2 frontman, questionable investor and hot take spewer Bono has been named as the very first recipient of the George W. Bush Medal for Disti...

Believe it or not, today marks the 20th anniversary of Massive Attack's landmark 1998 album Mezzanine. And to celebrate, Robert Del Naja and...

Colin Stetson is continuing his cinematic streak by scoring the upcoming horror film Hereditary, and another piece from the soundtrack has a...

Superchunk are dipping back into their new album What a Time to Be Alive for a new music video. This time, it's for album track "Erasure," w...

While today (4/20) is most commonly associated with weed, A$AP Rocky has significantly upped the ante with a video apparently dedicated to m...

Wavves' most recent LP arrived with You're Welcome just last year, but the Nathan Williams-fronted band is taking a trip back in time for Re...

As appropriate as today might be for Bernice's Puff LP, we're still a month away from hearing the whole thing. The Toronto pop outfit have,...

Melvins returned with their latest LP Pinkus Abortion Technician today, and to mark the occasion they've treated album cut "Don't Forget to...

Tory Lanez released his latest LP Memories Don't Die earlier this year, and now he's unveiled a video for album cut "Benevolent."   The cl...

We're mere weeks away from the release of Leon Bridges' sophomore LP Good Time, and now the performer has returned with a new track called "...

High-energy L.A. punk brats FIDLAR are back with a brand new track.   Titled "Alcohol," the heavy cut hears Zac Carper as young, drunk and...

Formed by fast friends Joe Elaschuk and Andrew Wilson, Sahara have since expanded to become a four-piece, and the Toronto-based post-punk ou...

Long-running Ottawa gloom punks the Creeps have been going strong since 1999, but they continue to find new ways to impress. Today, Exclaim!...

It's been 14 years since we've gotten a new full-length from A Perfect Circle, and that changes tonight with the arrival of the band's fourt...

Melvins are officially back to tear us a new one, as their latest album Pinkus Abortion Technician is now here to experience in full. So if...

Donovan Woods is at last ready to reveal Both Ways — the Canadian songwriter's latest album. And you can now stream it in full. Both Ways...

Two years on from their weighty Stage Four LP, Touché Amoré have returned with a new single. Titled "Green," the latest from the hardcore...

Ahead of its official release next week, Speedy Ortiz have given listeners a chance to stream their Twerp Verse LP early.  Right now, you...

One week ahead of its official arrival, Okkervil River have made their forthcoming LP In the Rainbow Rain available to stream in advance....

Courtney Barnett is just over a month away from releasing her sophomore solo LP Tell Me How You Really Feel, and she's just offered up anoth...

Though their namesake means there's deficient blood supply to a body part due to an obstruction, Toronto's Ischemic have plenty of blood, pl...

Vancouver imprint Kingfisher Bluez has maintained a truly ridiculous release schedule over the years, and their sheer quantity of output has...

After The Blade garnered Ashley Monroe her first Grammy nomination, the singer could have stuck with a proven sound and approach to songwrit...

It's almost hard to believe that, until now, a documentary on grindcore hadn't been made, given its multiple decades of existence and the in...

Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam:...

Erased Tapes is celebrating its tenth year of packaging quality avant-garde music with style. This triple LP features contributions from eve...

It is difficult to understand the power of Arvo Pärt's work without first recognizing his Estonian heritage, and the politics of the former...

It's no coincidence that one of the prominent legends of stoner metal decided to drop their newest album at midnight on April 19, ushering i...

Few artists can claim to ride the wave of worldwide popularity for the better part of two decades. Yet Thievery Corporation, aka Rob Garza a...

The Washboard Union are made up of step-brothers Aaron Grain and Chris Duncombe with best friend David Roberts. This trio won countless Coun...

The four-year gap between 2014's Refuse to Beg and Born Low's latest album, Sorry for Your Loss, brands the latter outing as an imperative a...

Peach Kelli Pop's Which Witch may be brief — none of its six tracks crack the two-minute mark, with the whole thing clocking in under seven...

Since the early 2000s, in the L.A. underground, it's been producer and beatmaker Ras G's m.o. to immerse his work in infectious, unfiltered...

In the Harry Potter universe, Inferi are corpses reanimated to guard the remainder of someone else's soul. That's kind of how Revenant feels...

Two bassists, babbling vocals and a Beatles cover so stoned it practically bleeds resin? It can only be Melvins. For 35 years, King Buzzo an...

The "We Are All In This Together" backdrop illuminated behind the stage was presumably meant to empower the crowd, or perhaps it was a refer...

Layten Kramer, of Victoria, BC (via Canmore, AB) has created a Western-tinged EP, Glory, that finds the artist reflecting on the resilience...

Sarah Grace McLaughlin, aka Bishop Briggs, made her mark on the indie pop scene with her widely acclaimed 2016 hit "River" — accumulating ov...

Leah Welbaum's vocals haunted all our dreams with Slothrust, and now she's back at it again, alongside drummer Mickey Vershbow, with ANMLPLN...

Toronto hip-hop duo Hard to Kill's eponymous debut isn't a horrorcore album, but it sounds menacing enough at times to make a Juggalo antsy....

The Residents wasted no time bringing their dadaist menace to the Mod Club on Thursday night. From the moment the four members walked on to...

Hip-hop history is replete with classic releases for which an MC enlists a sole producer to build a focused, cohesive sound. Snoop Dogg had...