#Canada

PREMIEREFOONYAP Finds Sweet Epiphany with "Free and Easy Wandering"

The themes discussed in those poems directly influenced her latest single "Free and Easy Wandering," a song built around the exploration of self. The music is as fast-fast paced and beautiful...

Ashley Prillaman

Tenille Townes Builds a Sanctuary With 'The Lemonade Stand'

On it, Townes asks big questions and expresses even bigger emotions, her compassionate worldview on full display as her childhood dream of making it big in country music...

Cillea Houghton

REVIEWSara-Danielle Finds Strength and Vulnerability on "Healing"

Last month, Sara-Danielle released her sophomore album, Healing. The 6-track project finds the Canadian artist excelling in her personally-carved out genre - a niche that she's coined "Ginger-ale-pop" - atop smooth instrumentals. The project seeks to personify duality, as Sara-Danielle's lyrics...

Victoria Moorwood

INTERVIEWThe Blue Stones Confirm An Album Is On The Way

Hailing from Windsor, Ontario, alt-rock duo The Blue Stones performed at Bunbury Music Festival earlier this month after wrapping up their headlining North American tour. This year, vocalist / guitarist Tarek Jafar and drummer Justin Tessier have followed up their 2018 debut album, Black Holes,...

Victoria Moorwood

INTERVIEWTaylor Janzen Talks "Shouting Matches," Dennis Quaid and Mental Health

At just 19 years old, soft-spoken Canadian singer Taylor Janzen tackles big emotions in her songwriting, including navigating her own experiences with anxiety and depression. Through her lyrics, Janzen hopes listeners can see their own feelings reflected and reduce the stigma toward mental health....

Victoria Moorwood

PREMIEREMontreal Hip Hop Artist Shades Lawrence Debuts "Turn My Head"

Shades Lawrence / Photo by Stacey Lee. We spoke to Montreal-based hip hop artist Shades Lawrence about her new single, "Turn My Head." The queer love track rocks '90s hip hop vibes and flips the heteronormative love song narrative. Shades channels her spoken word roots as she describes the...

Victoria Moorwood

ONLY NOISECat Power Was My Surrogate Community in the Canadian Wild

Steph Wong Ken at fifteen, on the cusp of discovering Cat Power's What Would the Community Think. ONLY NOISE explores music fandom with poignant personal essays that examine the ways we’re shaped by our chosen soundtrack. This week, Steph Wong Ken forges her own community in a frozen Canadian...

Steph Wong Ken

PREMIEREBilly Moon "Tangerine Dream"

Punk is a loaded word. It's been ascribed to popular artists as diverse as New Found Glory, Green Day, and Patti Smith. Graham Caldwell makes music as Billy Moon that expands beyond the label, gifting listeners with a tonally diverse album made for a record player's full turns. Punk Songs,...

Ashley Prillaman

PREMIEREAce of Wands "Float The Flood"

On the minor arcana tarot card from which the Toronto-based band Ace of Wands take their name, a hand reaches out from a cloud to present a flowering branch, signifying inspiration, power, creation, beginnings, and potential. It is with this offering in mind that Lee Rose, the woman behind both the...

Ashley Prillaman

INTERVIEWPetra Glynt On Making Music That Matters

k.a. Alexandra Mackenzie) isn't interested in writing love songs. The world is on fire, she has a microphone in her hand, and she wants to you listen to what to she's laying down. This Trip is a journey through modern life: government...

Ashley Prillaman

TRACK REVIEWLié "Failed Visions"

This trio of Vancouver badasses are cooking up some deliciously grungy post-punk music.

Nicole Ortiz