The opener on Zoon's debut album, Bleached Wavves, sounds like a familiar shoegaze prologue. Titled "Cloud Formations," it sounds like somet...

Although Kenny Mason has been making music for over a decade, his late-2019 single, "Hit," seemed to formally establish him as a name to wat...

Midwife's sophomore album, Forever, carries with it a sense of dark, elegiac mystery. Its album art shows what appears to be a ghostly set o...

Since he started recording as Addy in 2017, Adam Watkins has defied categorization. His two EPs, re call and Rose Eyes, placed gliding, alt-...

Andy Shauf's homecoming was a little paradoxical. The last time he performed at the Exchange — fronting Foxwarren — he played alongside old...

After two improvisational sessions together, free jazz drummer Charles Rumback and proficient folk artist Ryley Walker released an instrumen...

On Mappe Of's sophomore record, The Isle of Ailynn, Tom Meikle's predilection for the experimental comingles with his robust imagination, re...

Brigitte Naggar, who performs as Common Holly, doesn't want to give too much of herself away. Even her debut album, Playing House, a wheezin...

Common Holly's second album, When I Say to You Black Lightning, feels like a worthy successor to her debut, Playing House. There are clear c...

Legendary composer and guitarist Bill Frisell couldn't have found a more appropriate title for his official Blue Note debut; Harmony deftly...

Shortly after recording Red River Dialect's fifth album, Abundance Welcoming Ghosts, the band's singer and songwriter David Morris left Wale...

On their third album, Parallel Line, Montreal-based orchestral-pop project Paper Beat Scissors explore the tender fragility of human connect...

With its high ceilings, brass railings and cream walls, on which complex golden patterns lay, and in which over a century of history lives,...

Corey Isenor's latest album, Absinthe & Smoke, feels delicate and gentle, especially when compared to his backlog of alt-country records. Hi...

Over the course of their Regina set, Half Moon Run demonstrated why they have a reputation for technical prowess. Conner Molander moved from...

Foxwarren appeared as one, animated by blue and red lights, but the crowd's eyes went to Andy Shauf, who hadn't played in his hometown since...