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Canadian music continued to make huge waves this year. In the wake of the world’s love affair with Arcade Fire, North American critics are still agog over Canuck product. Drake, Feist, The Weekend and tUnE-yArDs have all been dominating top ten lists, even if most of the time American writers … Read More
Even with the abundance of piracy, music blogs and award shows, keeping up with the latest and greatest Canadian bands is no easy task. Sometimes a few manage to scratch the surface — recent explosions of Drake, Justin Bieber and Arcade Fire surely, but nonetheless surprisingly, put Canada on the … Read More
The richness of the Toronto music scene has long been undervalued, at home and abroad. Perhaps size and stylistic diversity work against our metropolis, seeing critics latch upon more homogenous communities like Seattle, Athens (in the ’80s), Manchester, and, more recently, Montreal, appointing them musical hotbeds for a few short … Read More
Summer looms, gents. Patios and back porches. Cottages and campfires. Barbeques and back nines. In short, this is not the season for soaking up the heat — it’s the season for chilling out. With that in mind, we’ve rounded up a mix of mellow May releases guaranteed to stick with … Read More
Often misunderstood as a place merely for rodeos and oil barons, Calgary proper is a multi-cultural hotbed of astonishing tastes, sights and sounds — you just have to know where to look. Or, listen: On any given night, venues like Broken City, The Distillery or the Hifi Club pack in top local … Read More
