Celebrating a 25 year long career and an 11 album discography, indie band Low are no strangers to progression and reinvention. With the release of 2018’s Double Negative they have crafted an album that is equal parts beautiful and brutal, a stark, noisy experimental work that manages to be both moving and of the moment. […]

Vancouver has escaped the clutches of a viciously dreary winter as streaks of unadulterated sunlight and warm springtime breeze titillate residents with the promise of life, clear horizons and freedom from gore tex. Emily Rowed sits in Turks coffee shop on Commercial Drive, perched on a wooden chair, clad in pastels, ‘Budapest’ printed on a […]

“I carry masks, we all do. We all carry masks with us for different situations. We use them as shields and protect ourselves from the outside. I think, for the most part, we need to get rid of those masks and get down to what is real.” In Flames is undoubtedly one of Sweden’s most […]

A terrifying chorus of drones swarm like wasps over a desolate landscape. Gnawing and building and growing in strength, crushing you like the weight of ice, expanding and stretching over a fast expanse. You feel trapped until the sweet release of melancholy pulls you under — the calm after the squall. This is Side A […]

“This album is about letting go of any lingering traces of internalized homophobia inside of me and finally embracing who I am.” Vancouver avant-garde pop artist Devours has been pushing boundaries since the release of his last record Late Bloomer, when he achieved the feat of making a massive-sounding album with studio quality in his […]

Upon the first full listen of Hexed, the forthcoming record from Finland’s extreme metal outfit Children of Bodom, scheduled for a March 8 release, it’s hard to argue that this may be the band’s heaviest and most thought-out record in recent memory. Hexed feels like 2000’s Follow the Reaper meets 2009’s Blooddrunk mixed with flavours […]

Cass McCombs isn’t in pursuit. Making music and playing music is what it’s about for the veteran songwriter and his approach is refreshing. He doesn’t pretend to have the answers, responding with awareness of everything he doesn’t know. “I don’t have Spotify, I don’t use that. I don’t even really know what it is,” he […]

On “Some Mutts (Can’t Be Muzzled),” Amyl and the Sniffers cut right to the quick, declaring what could be their thesis in one gleeful, defiant snarl. Inside two-and-a-half-minutes of Raw Power-esque proto-punk boogie, you get the message: rock ‘n’ roll ain’t done with you yet. And although comparisons to the Stooges spring to mind, these […]

In an age where relationships are measured in milliseconds with swipes right and digitized hearts littering our notifications, 36?’s newest album, Milk Mountain, comes across as the soundtrack for figuring yourself out amidst all the noise and chaos. It’s a complex record, one that takes frontman-songwriter Taylor Cochrane’s precocious talent for putting together (and pulling […]