They knew it was stupid. Of course it was stupid. Generally speaking, an adult who draws a cartoon of a human turd — any turd, really — know...
Micah Brown evokes the days of college rock and Midwest emo throughout Swell, the Montreal-based singer-songwriter's debut album as Pillea....
Now that the cult fandom of Origami Angel's breakout debut, Somewhere City, has positioned them as a leading emissary in the fifth wave of e...
Manchester Orchestra began a new era of their career with 2017's A Black Mile to the Surface. It was an atmospheric, cinematic work that rec...
After five years of well-received live gigs and two solid EPs, the debut full-length album by Toronto-based group PONY has everything there...
In the midst of a society-wide reckoning over the insidious dangers of casual misogyny and toxic masculinity, Harmony Woods have released a...
While they haven't actually made a best-of compilation, Tigers Jaw arguably have one of the best "greatest hits" catalogues in their scene....
Here's the type of record that can propel an artist from indie acclaim to widespread recognition. After two critically lauded albums of raw,...
In 10 years, the Dirty Nil have gone from scrappy small-town Ontario upstarts to Juno-winning rockers with a devoted base of riff addicts an...
Bearings' first record, Blue in the Dark, has to rank among the better debuts in the recent history of pop-punk. By 2018, they had spent eno...
A year after the National released their eighth album, I Am Easy to Find, two of their members are back in the spotlight again with high-pro...
In 2016, Touché Amoré took a creative leap forward with their distinctive style of emotive post-hardcore for their fourth album, Stage Four,...
Hell still hath no fury like the band METZ. The Toronto noise rockers are functioning like a well-oiled and lethally dangerous machine on th...
What a year it's been for Bartees Strange. He kicked it off with Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy, an EP of five captivatingly reimagined covers of...
A full 10 years after his first solo album, Go, Icelandic musical ambassador Jónsi sets aside the picturesque post-rock of Sigur Rós and ful...
Like it or not, IDLES may be the face of punk rock in 2020. The sneering British band has exploded in popularity since releasing two critica...
Mr. Hooper was one of the most beloved characters on Sesame Street. Cranky and curmudgeonly but with a heart of gold, he was beautifully por...
How can we do better? It's a question that's often asked, but not often enough. Humans don't tend to like it when a question lingers for too...
In the last few years, the '90s alt-rock revival has been able to flourish not only because several era-defining acts returned two decades l...
In a review of the 2015 album Some Kind of Family, Exclaim! called Winnipeg group Les Jupes "Canada's next great band." A week later, they b...
