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Choir! Choir! Choir! maps out holiday charity blitz
Choir! Choir! Choir! will be spreading some major cheer this winter. After paying tribute to the late great Leonard Cohen in Christie Pits with hundreds... -
HMV at the Eaton Centre to close
Now’s the time to stock up on all your Bob Marley posters, Sopranos DVD box sets and goofy Avengers action figures. hmv Canada recently announced... -
>>> Winter Wheat reminds us that John K. Samson is a singular voice in Canadian music
John K. Samson’s work is dense with descriptions of an oft-overlooked Canada. He’s built a catalogue of songs about Indigenous hockey players, legendary Prairie punk... -
Conor Oberst’s Ruminations is packed with depression and despair
The main story behind Ruminations is that following a “tough winter” that included the discovery of a cyst on his brain, Conor Oberst wasn’t sure... -
>>> Toronto musician L Con gets inspired by outer space on Moon Milk
The world of science fiction provides great opportunities for exploring the human condition. Setting your characters against the cold unknown of space throws their dramas,... -
>>> Album of the week: Drive-By Truckers’ American Band
Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood wrote What It Means, one of American Band's most powerful songs, while gripped by the senseless murders of Michael Brown and... -
>>> Vince Staples’s Prima Donna bristles with paranoia, anxiety and anger
Vince Staples's second EP opens with the Long Beach rapper lethargically singing a snippet from gospel tune This Little Light Of Mine (titled Let It... -
>>> July Talk’s second record, Touch, is full of swaggering radio rock
July Talk's sophomore record bristles with the electricity of connection - between singers Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis and the characters inside the songs. What... -
James Vincent McMorrow
Repetition is essential to pop music. Catchy vocal hooks and irresistible samples are the genre's currency: in some ways, you're only as good as how... -
Twist puts a refreshing spin on Creation Records-style fuzz pop
Like those by Buzz Records labelmates Dilly Dally, the tunes on local fuzz-pop project Twist's full-length debut are full of nods to the 90s, but... -
Dolly Parton’s Pure & Simple album is an injection of sunshine
We need Dolly Parton now more than ever. The easiest response to the flood of bad news washing over us every day is hopelessness, but... -
>>> Album of the week: Lydia Loveless’s Real
Since Lydia Loveless's solo debut, 2010's The Only Man, she's been lumped into the increasingly lazy "saviours of country music" genre, along with acts like... -
Toronto musicians weigh in on the Hip’s mighty influence
Charlotte Cornfield "The Hip's music has always been on the wind for me. It's a fading melody from a passing motorboat, a pulsing chorus on... -
>>> Album of the week: Blowout
In the past few years, fans of thrashy, punk-indebted rock ’n’ roll have been blessed with a slew of fantastic bandleaders: Hop Along’s Frances Quinlan,... -
Now PUP have their own beer, too
Music history has shown us that many surprising pairings go well together: Elvis’s peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwich Run-DMC and Aerosmith. And then there's punk rock and cheap swill,...
