Dylan Konrad Obront likely shouldn’t be picking up a phone to do an interview. About 12 hours beforehand, the producer/songwriter of Montreal’s Sorry Girls was pedalling his bike to a friend’s house when something got stuck in his tire. He was thrown from his ride, but lived to tell the tale. “I got a concussion, […]

Located in the Nordic island country’s capital of Reykjavík, Iceland Airwaves is a hot bed for local and international talent who gather once a year for the ultimate music festival experience. While they import a lot of international buzz bands for their annual celebration, there are more than 100 Icelandic acts who are also part […]

Despite the unknown cold snaps, seasonal affective disorders, and other come-what-mays that usher in the first dark days of winter, City and Colour’s sixth LP, A Pill for Loneliness, is a dose of insight for our changing times. From the opening Fruit-Rollup licks and spacey riffs of “Living with Lightning” and the apocalyptic parade into […]

Elliot C Way is a living, breathing, boot-stompin’, guitar-strummin’ relic of the 1970s. Standing amongst vintage velvet paintings and wood-beaded curtains in his East Vancouver apartment, the frontman of The Wild North is ready to roll. In the parking lot out back is the third most important thing in his life (after his wife, Stephanie, […]

Take a listen to the singles “Mopstick” and “Run It Up” and you’d never guess these are Juice’s first singles—ever. While the young Toronto rapper might be fresh in the game, he’s proving early on that he’s got, well, the juice. The Remix Project alum cut his creative teeth with slam poetry before pursuing rap, […]

When celebrated UK art-rockers Wild Beasts called it a day in February 2018, it didn’t signal an end to the music, but instead a new beginning. After 16 years, five acclaimed full-lengths (including 2009’s Mercury Prize-nominated Two Dancers), and a farewell live album, the four members of Wild Beasts parted on good terms and went […]

Brandon Williams has an ambivalent relationship to his hometown in southern Ontario. It serves as both the inspiration behind his music, and place that’s a subject to criticism. “The finance minister under Stephen Harper, Jim Flaherty, lived 300 metres away from me,” Williams says from an airy loft in Toronto’s Junction, where he’s been working […]

Vulnerability through artistic practice is largely about opening up spaces: within the artist to explore difficult or repressed emotions, and within the audience to move through the work with empathy and openness. The best works that arise from opening up have the capacity to challange the type of harmful narratives that have historically made sensitivity […]