I'm Glad It's You's 'Every Sun, Every Moon' Is an Emo Triumph Born Out of Tragedy

Published May 14, 2020

When the curtain rises on I'm Glad It's You's Every Sun, Every Moon to the "Hallelujah"-esque piano arpeggios of "Desert Days," you may get...

Diet Cig's 'Do You Wonder About Me?' Turns Self-Doubt into a Celebration

Published Apr 29, 2020

Early on, Diet Cig were tasked with living up to expectations. In 2015, excitable fans in indie and punk circles quickly took to the bubbly...

The Treble's 'Rivals' is Canada's Unwanted Answer to Imagine Dragons

Published Apr 22, 2020

If you saw Billboard's chart of the top 50 rock songs of the 2010s, you may have felt a sense of cognitive dissonance regarding "rock music"...

Emily Rockarts' 'Little Flower' Glows from the Inside Out

Published Apr 22, 2020

From the first few notes of Emily Rockarts' Little Flower, it's a debut worth hearing. The beautiful organs and synths of "Get It All Back"...

Good Looking Friends' 'The Light of the Well' Is Subtly Extraordinary Emo

Published Apr 15, 2020

What an excellently crafted and simply lovely record from this under-the-radar Brooklyn group. At first, Good Looking Friends' second album...

Stay Inside Viewing

Published Apr 09, 2020

First things first, let's just agree to quickly acknowledge and move past the fact that this band releasing their debut album during the COV...

Eerie Gaits Holopaw

Published Apr 09, 2020

Wild Pink's Yolk in the Fur was one of the more underappreciated gems of 2018, with a luscious, highly textural sound at the nexus of shoega...

Violent Soho Everything Is A-OK

Published Apr 02, 2020

There's bound to be lots of music made before, but released during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will lead some of it to feel eerily prescien...

Charmer Ivy

Published Apr 01, 2020

Newly emerging from northern Michigan, Charmer sound exactly like an emo band from the Midwest. The easiest comparison here is Tigers Jaw, n...

Nightwell Nightwell

Published Mar 31, 2020

For the last few years, Nightwell have been among the Ontario alt-rock scene's best-kept secrets. The Toronto band have released a steady st...

Brian Fallon Local Honey

Published Mar 25, 2020

Brian Fallon earned a reputation for fast-paced heartland rock songs with the Gaslight Anthem, but he'd always slip in one or two impassione...

Here's How Hard Canadian Musicians Will Be Hit by COVID-19 — and How Fans Can Help

Published Mar 17, 2020

Pretty Matty were just beginning their U.S. tour when things felt wrong. The Toronto power pop band had just hit the road, and their firs...

Dogleg Melee

Published Mar 11, 2020

Dogleg built up quite a bit of buzz ahead of their debut album. Three years after the Michigan punk band first started making noise, they si...

​With Their Latest Juno Nomination, the Dirty Nil Are the Underdogs of Canadian Rock

Published Mar 06, 2020

The Dirty Nil are a rock band.   Normally that would be a boring and obvious observation, but it's a descriptor the band have been chasing...

Hot Mulligan You'll Be Fine

Published Mar 03, 2020

In the last couple of years, Hot Mulligan have emerged as one of those bands for people in certain alt-rock circles to keep an eye on. The M...

Worriers You or Someone You Know

Published Mar 03, 2020

It's the end of the world as we know it, and Lauren Denitzio doesn't know what to feel. The singer-songwriter's punk band Worriers makes ano...

A Radical Act: Canadian Musicians in Conversation About Being Sober in an Industry Built on Booze

Published Feb 28, 2020

In the life of a musician, it's lamentably easy to fall into substance abuse.   It's a career that comes with a highly social lifestyle. M...

Ratboys Printer's Devil

Published Feb 26, 2020

For the first time in their lives as a band, singer-songwriter Julia Steiner and multi-instrumentalist Dave Sagan have some stability. The d...

Empty Country Empty Country

Published Feb 11, 2020

Over the course of ten years, New York-based band Cymbals Eat Guitars evolved from a Wrens-worshipping group into a crowd-rousing rock band...

Spanish Love Songs Brave Faces Everyone

Published Feb 06, 2020

Los Angeles punk band Spanish Love Songs started making a bit of a stir in 2018 with their second album, Schmaltz, a viscerally candid recor...