Zoon Transcends His Shoegaze Origins on Remarkable Debut 'Bleached Wavves'

Published Jun 16, 2020

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

Kenny Mason Chooses Experimentation over Hit-Chasing on 'Angelic Hoodrat'

Published Apr 17, 2020

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 Forever

Published Apr 09, 2020

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...

Addy Eclipse

Published Mar 05, 2020

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 The Exchange, Regina SK, March 3

Published Mar 04, 2020

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

Charles Rumback & Ryley Walker Little Common Twist

Published Nov 05, 2019

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

Mappe Of The Isle of Ailynn

Published Oct 31, 2019

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

Common Holly Wants to Be Sincere Without Being Open-Hearted on 'When I Say to You Black Lightning'

Published Oct 10, 2019

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 When I Say to You Black Lightning

Published Oct 09, 2019

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...

Bill Frisell Harmony

Published Oct 02, 2019

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

Red River Dialect Abundance Welcoming Ghosts

Published Sep 25, 2019

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

Paper Beat Scissors Parallel Line

Published Sep 11, 2019

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

Megan Nash Mae Wilson Theatre, Moose Jaw SK, September 7

Published Sep 09, 2019

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 Absinthe & Smoke

Published Aug 14, 2019

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

Half Moon Run The Exchange, Regina SK, July 16

Published Jul 17, 2019

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

Foxwarren The Exchange, Regina SK, May 29

Published May 30, 2019

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...