Ducks Unlimited Get Bleak

Published Dec 04, 2019

Jangle pop — that loose, chiming style of indie rock — is one of those genres that's easy to make, but deceptively hard to do well. Ducks Un...

Ralph Flashbacks & Fantasies

Published Dec 04, 2019

If you caught Raffaela Weyman on one of her recent opening gigs for Carly Rae Jepsen, you know that the Toronto pop singer, who performs as...

Beabadoobee Space Cadet

Published Nov 04, 2019

Bea Kristi loves the '90s. She's said as much in interviews, and embodies the decade's gives-no-fucks slacker aesthetic in a way that's less...

Saves the Day Through Being Cool: TBC20

Published Oct 30, 2019

By the time Saves the Day were recording their sophomore album, they were almost a completely different band, literally. Foreshadowing what...

King Princess Cheap Queen

Published Oct 30, 2019

Mikaela Straus exudes confidence. You can see it in her interviews (like our recent cover story), music videos and now, on her debut album a...

King Princess Finds Her Zhuzh on Debut 'Cheap Queen'

Published Oct 29, 2019

It takes 30 minutes, and several call apps to properly connect with Mikaela Straus. Sound is an issue, and she bristles at the choppy audio...

Taking Back Sunday Tell All Your Friends

Published Oct 11, 2019

Taking Back Sunday arrived at a particularly fortuitous moment. The early oughts were a heady time for bands spilling their guts over hooky...

Massive Attack Meridian Hall, Toronto ON, September 18

Published Sep 19, 2019

Massive Attack have never seemed particularly interested in nostalgia. Their music tends to speak to a particular moment or, in the case of...

Charli XCX Charli

Published Sep 13, 2019

It's taken Charli XCX five years to follow up her last proper studio album, 2014's Sucker. But the Charli that made that album is not the Ch...

Charli XCX Is at the Centre of Her Own Pop Universe on New Album 'Charli'

Published Sep 09, 2019

"Does your back hurt from carrying all of pop music?"   It was a throwaway question offered during an impromptu AMA session that Charli XC...

G Flip About Us

Published Sep 03, 2019

Georgia Flipo's heart was broken, so she wrote some songs about it. That's the short version of About Us, the Australian musician's debut...

Sum 41 Order in Decline

Published Jul 22, 2019

Few would have predicted that Sum 41 would survive the early aughts pop punk boom. As perhaps the most cartoony and immature iteration, ther...

Sum 41 Survive Teen Stardom, Substance Abuse and Changing Tastes to Rise Again on 'Out for Blood'

Published Jul 12, 2019

The early oughts were awash in bouncy pop punk bands. Yet Sum 41, a young and bratty quartet from the Toronto suburb of Ajax, ON, somehow ma...

Blood Orange Angel's Pulse

Published Jul 11, 2019

Creative restlessness has been a hallmark of Dev Hynes' career since day one. From his days in Test Icicles through his time as Lightspeed C...

Black Midi Schlagenheim

Published Jul 10, 2019

What are Black Midi? Post-punk, noise rock, funk? Another over-hyped UK buzz band? A mirror for our collective anxiety?   They are all thi...

Five Noteworthy Facts You May Not Know About Sum 41

Published Jul 05, 2019

Amidst the pop-punk boom of the early aughts, Ajax, ON outfit Sum 41 stood out for their huge hooks, hair metal homages and bratty antics —...

Rising UK Rockers Black Midi Bring the Noise on Debut 'Schlagenheim'

Published Jul 03, 2019

"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens.'"   Thes...

An Artist-First Mentality Is Key to Taurus Recording

Published Jun 26, 2019

"Not even joking," Thomas D'Arcy says, looking at all the knobs and dials on his mixing board, "I would say five percent of why I became a m...

Black Midi's Debut LP 'Schlagenheim' Is Part Talking Heads, Part Noise, All Consuming

Published Jun 17, 2019

"All he said before the gig was, 'I'm going to jump up in the air and when I land, just go into noise and we'll see what happens."   These...

The 1975 Budweiser Stage, Toronto ON, June 3

Published Jun 04, 2019

Calling the 1975 "an internet band" is so common it's become a cliché. But what that not-untrue characterization of the UK quartet misses is...