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There are more than 140 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at...

I couldn't read music if you put a gun to my head. But I have no trouble reading about music. Here are the biographies and books due this week: Classic...

I know you like to watch. So here's a list of the musicians who will be singing for their supper next week on the boob tube. Of course, everything...

I wouldn't want to live in the past. But I still like to visit every now and then. Here are the musical birthdays we'll be celebrating and the anniversaries...

Move over, Weezer. There's another classic-rock covers album in town. And this one takes things even more seriously. For his latest user-friendly release, singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton — who has...

Something wicked this way comes. Finally. It's been more than a decade since eclectic and eccentric Boston singer-songwriter Brian Carpenter and his cabaret-rock Beat Circus kicked off their Weird...

You can't spell punk without pun. Not this time, anyway. Full Vol., the title of Hamilton hardcore punk hooligans Dead Tired’s latest full-length, not only nods to their balls-out...

Yeah, that's right: Three Gs. You got something to say about that, spelling police? Take it up with this Montreal electro-doom blues duo — if you've got the stones....

Soul power. As Mr. James Brown informed us way back in the day, it's what you need. What you want. What you got to have. Unfortunately, it's also what...

Slow and steady win the race. Until they don't. Beloved Midwestern emo stalwarts American Football have long been poster boys for the former concept — after breaking up following the...

Collaboration has always been the creative swizzle stick that stirs Luther Dickinson’s musical drink. Over the decades, the singer-guitarist and frontman of North Mississippi Allstars has lent his time...

Music publicists are just working stiffs like anybody else. They have a stack of work piling up on their desk all week long — but come Friday afternoon, it's all...

This is not your mom's Masked Singer. Unless your mom is way cooler than I think she is. For those who haven't been paying attention, newcomer Orville Peck has...

The news is fake but the drugs are real. Watching surfers while sitting in a Mexican restaurant bar can be amazing. And Michael Jackson would like to inform you...

"I gotta get my shit together before I'm 40," Timothy Showalter sings partway through his latest Strand of Oaks album. He needn't worry. Based on this monumental and magnificent...

Animal Collective have never really been my musical drug of choice. And I've sampled more than enough to acquire the habit — I've reviewed most of their major releases...

Let's be honest: That new Netflix biopic of Mötley Crüe looks like it's going to be hilariously and spectacularly shitty. Which is precisely why I'm going to be watching...

No matter how hard they try, Pavement co-founders Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg just can't get away from each other. Last week, the former released his latest solo set,...

Jenny Lewis is in good company. For her fourth solo album On The Line, the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman is backed by a VIP roster of talent that includes...

Seeing double? You were if you paid attention to the musical acts on Thursday's late-night talk shows. One live song was not enough for Jenny Lewis, who performed both...

Lenny Bull talks tough, Charlotte Cornfield slows her roll, Frank Iero faces his doom, Tom Wilson sees the light and more in today's Roundup. How many roads must a...

What do Calexico & Iron & Wine, The Last Poets, Steel Pulse and The Roots’ Captain Kirk Douglas have in common? They all announced today that they're releasing new...

Marc Jordan has it covered on his upcoming album Both Sides. The award-winning and prolific Canadian singer/songwriter will unleash a newly minted collection of chilled out romantic contemporary jazz arrangements...

You know what they say: Every dog has his day. For Pup, that day was Wednesday night, when the scrappy Canadian mutts made their late-night debut with a typically...

Fat White Family serve salad, Orville Peck masks the hate, Dressy Bessy speak the truth, Dub Trio and Troy Sanders fight it out and more in today's Roundup. I...