Joseph Shabason has spent much of his career in service to others. Whether it's through his work as a member of synthpop group DIANA, sidema...
Back in the '90s, it was de rigueur for alt-rock Neanderthals to howl about some sort of undefined pain. Though the meaning of their words w...
Getting older sucks. You're slower, you feel out of touch, hangovers hurt more and linger longer. Doors also start closing. Those things you...
How do you take your music to the next level without losing what made it special in the first place? This is the dilemma faced by any artist...
Bob Wiseman has been many things in his long career — founding member of Blue Rodeo, solo artist, experimental musician, sideman and teacher...
Though he's most often considered an electronic artist, indie rock and pop-punk have been regular influences in Ryan Hemsworth's music for y...
Partner's debut, 2017's In Search of Lost Time, filtered classic rock riffs through a Weezer-esque alt-rock lens, but it was the band's penc...
Between 2008 and 2011, Salem burned bright. During these three years, the Michigan-based trio released a handful of EPs and their lone album...
Forty years is a long life for any band, let alone one who've had as many ups and downs as Bad Religion. Through break-ups, addiction, major...
Mark Palm has been around the musical block. He's done time in Vancouver punks Reserve 34, Seattle metal outfit Black Breath and San Francis...
Rock history has little love for promoters. Over the genre's 65 years, promoters, the folks who book artists into venues, tend to be portray...
What do you do when all your dreams have come true? This is the question that haunts A Hero's Death, the sophomore album from Dublin post-pu...
Few artists have managed to bottle the feeling of being a young, modern English urbanite quite like Mike Skinner. An everyman MC straddling...
100 gecs tend to elicit a lot of strong opinions, as well as a lot of questions: Are they for real? Did they just call someone a "piss baby?...
There's always been an incongruity between HAIM in the studio and HAIM on stage. Whereas the trio's first two albums were polished and smoot...
Japandroids seem tailored for the live experience – made up of shredding guitar, pounding drums and gang-vocal "whoa-oh" choruses, their mus...
Sleepless Nights' star burned bright in the late aughts, before the band's 2009 disillusion. Yet the band's legend – at least on Canada's Ea...
The 1975 have built a career taking familiar sounds and pushing them into unfamiliar places. It's a thread that winds throughout their disco...
In a world lurching from tragedy to crisis and back again on a weekly basis, the title of Wares' new album, Survival, is uncannily prescient...
There are plenty of city-specific music books and plenty of books about DIY music, but Any Night of the Week might be the first about a city...
