Indie Roundup | Three New Videos for Your Thursday Viewing Pleasure
Coilguns unload, Living Hours hit the lake and Old Man Canyon gets set in today's Roundup. You're soaking in it!
1 Don't say Coilguns never gave you anything. And plenty...
Baby, It’s Absurd Outside | A Viable Alternative To Endless, Fruitless Outrage
Do you hear what I hear? That's right, it's time for the annual Christmas music onslaught. Which means it's also time for people to clutch their pearls and get...
Micah P. Hinson | When I Shoot At You With Arrows, I Will Shoot...
Micah P. Hinson clearly knows the value of a good title. And how to write one. The southern gothic singer-songwriter's latest album comes with a real corker: When I...
Back Stories | My 2010 Interview With Andy Kim
Back in 2010, legendary Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Kim was about to release his first new album in nearly 20 years. And I was one of the first journalists to...
Indie Roundup | Five Tunes To Choose This Tuesday
Kalle Mattson is a Christmas card, Cold Collective play with dolls, Ocean Potion have a notion, Murray Lightburn grows up and more in today's Roundup. If you're lookin', it...
Indie Roundup | Seven Songs You Need In Your Life Right Now
Foxwarren take the long view, Confidence Man show their Claus, Cat Power has it covered, Orville Peck takes to the sky, Norvhar troll you and more in today's Roundup....
DIY Discovery | Super 8
Most of the music I hear is sent to me by labels and publicists. But there's nothing like getting it straight from the source. Welcome to today's instalment of...
Next Week in Music | Dec. 3-9, 2018
Here are the major album releases, TV appearances, anniversaries and other events coming up in the next seven days. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t...
Sonic Youth | New York, NY • CBGB • December 13, 1988
I was lucky enough to see Sonic Youth play a bunch of times over the years. And like every punk fan who goes to New York, I made the...
Dolly Parton | Dumplin’
No, Dolly Parton isn't singing the praises of dough balls for a new foodie documentary. Dumplin' the movie is a new Netflix feature based on a YA novel about...
Foxwarren | Foxwarren
You know how it is with old friends. You don't see each other for months — maybe even years — but then when you finally do get together, you...
Daniel Romano | Finally Free
Some artists are all about quantity, churning out album after album like so many musical sausages. Others are all about quality, releasing nothing that feels half-baked or unfinished. Then...
Phish | Kasvot Växt / í rokk
When is a covers album not a covers album? When it's this elaborate prank by the men of Phish. For more than two decades now, the jam-band vets have...
Indie Roundup (Almost Legal Edition) | 17 Songs To Finish Off Friday
Jeff Whalen goes pop, Beast in Black go back, Gotthard go soft, Amerlia White goes there, Marlon Chaplin takes you there, three little elves tune up for Christmas and...
Big Brother & The Holding Co. | Sex, Dope & Cheap Thrills
If anybody deserves a do-over, it's Janis Joplin. And with their entry into this fall's parade of 50th-anniversary reissues, she and her bandmates in Big Brother and The Holding...
