UK indie's current infatuation with post-punk has led to a proliferation of British men yelling over jagged guitar riffs. So the arrival of...
The 1975 are very seriously not serious about playing the role of a rock band. Since the UK quartet's Tumblr-core early days, they've worn t...
Do you trust NOFX? It's the kind of question we reflexively ask ourselves whenever we encounter new music: "Do I believe what this artis...
Arctic Monkeys have spent most of their career learning how to chill out. After a rise as rapid as the tempos on their first two records...
Over 17 years and a half-dozen albums, Titus Andronicus have been, at various times, raucus, epic, overwhelming, relentless, uncompromising,...
After tentative steps back to normalcy last year, Pop Montreal was back in full force for its 2022 edition. As always, the fest featured a h...
High school sucks, and most folks are happy to put it in the rearview. Sophia Bel was no different, until she started digging through her pa...
On paper, Bleachers and Carly Rae Jepsen occupy different corners of the poptimist landscape. The former is essentially a vehicle for pop st...
New albums from the Beths are not capital "E" events. There are no new eras declared, no wiping of social media accounts, no new visual aest...
Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez have always been iconoclasts. From the antipathy that imploded At the Drive-In, to the apathy...
Luna Li might be the bedroom pop torch singer no one knew we needed. Drawing a straight line between bedroom pop's pillowy intimacy and the...
Canadian music journalist, author and former Exclaim! associate editor Michael Barclay covers a lot of ground in his new book Hearts on Fire...
This night was something of a homecoming for PACKS singer-guitarist Madeline Link. Pushed out of Toronto due to the rising cost of living, t...
Courage My Love ended not with a bang but a whimper. For over a decade, the Kitchener, ON, trio — founded by twin sisters Mercedes and P...
The knock on so many Canadian '90s alt-rock bands was that they couldn't make it in the States. Try as they might, Our Lady Peace, Matthew G...
Dave Gahan was spent. Having travelled the globe for 15 months with Depeche Mode for the English synthpop pioneers' Global Spirit Tour, t...
Indie rock has had a falling out with the guitar riff. Over the last 15 years, what was once the organizing force behind any kind of guitar-...
The OBGMs entered 2020 with a new record and something to prove. It had been three years since the Toronto-based band released new music and...
Change is hard. If there's anything the past few years have proven, it's that even the threat of upheaval can send anyone into an anxious fi...
Ska, if you haven't heard, is having a moment. After two decades as the butt of many, many jokes, the genre unexpectedly found itself on...
