
Coming nearly five years after Volume 1, which anthologized the formative years of the Go-Betweens, G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 2, 1985...
Coming nearly five years after Volume 1, which anthologized the formative years of the Go-Betweens, G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 2, 1985...
It has been quite the year for Brandi Carlile. Of course, there was that show-stopping performance of "The Joke" at the Grammy Awards back i...
If the striking image of a shimmering, ghostly Amanda Shires on the cover of To the Sunset hints at the fact that fans of the excellent My P...
After The Blade garnered Ashley Monroe her first Grammy nomination, the singer could have stuck with a proven sound and approach to songwrit...
Where previous Bear Family box sets found new ways to anthologize familiar pop culture subjects, like the Vietnam War (Next Stop Is Vietnam:...
Windy City, Alison Krauss's first album since 2011's Paper Airplane and first to be credited to Krauss alone since 1999's Forget About It, i...
There aren't many bands like NRBQ out there. For half a century, NRBQ (which stands for "New Rhythm and Blues Quartet") have been delighting...
If the purpose of Lisa LeBlanc's first English-language EP — 2014's excellent Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted — was to buy herself...
At an age where many of his contemporaries have long retired from the studio or the stage, faded into musical irrelevance, or worse, Paul Si...
Forty-five years into an illustrious career, Bonnie Raitt's place in music history is well assured. The young hotshot guitarist who idolized...
Best known as one third of acclaimed New Brunswick folk trio Les Hay Babies, Vivianne Roy doesn't entirely shed that group's emphasis on cou...
For everyone but her most ardent fans, Carole King's career can be split neatly into two separate periods: first, there was Carole King, hit...
Patty Griffin took six years to follow up Children Running Through with an album of entirely new original material, but the relatively brief...
Héloïse Letissier, who records under the Christine and the Queens moniker, is already firmly established as a star in her native France: the...
Every few years, a new album, film or unearthed set of recordings seems to generate a resurgence of interest in the Beach Boys and the group...
Summer was still officially a couple of days away when Michael Rault took to the makeshift stage of the Captain Matthew Flinders as part of...
When it was announced that Montréal's Dead Obies were planning to record the follow-up to debut LP Montréal $ud during three concerts later...
M for Montreal's annual NXNE Bruise Cruise has become one of the festival's most popular events and it's easy to see why: you get to leave t...
Riding high on the crest of a series of dates opening for 2015 breakout star Courtney Barnett, Chastity Belt's NXNE showcase was one of the...
Lia Ices decided to reinvent herself following her sophomore LP, trading Grown Unknown's Cat Power inflections and baroque, mournful balladr...