The last few years have seen an explosive wave of indie rock hit the mainstream, thanks to a select number of influential music curators crafting dreamy playlists that lead to a rapid growth of bedroom pop performers. Amongst these is NYC-based psychedelic indie group Crumb. A fusion of 2000s indie, jazz and pop, each of […]

Carl Newman is sitting on a chic couch in a vacant corner of Toronto’s Chelsea Hotel, basking in confident tranquility. He’s calm, cool, collected, and sipping on a latte as he meets with the press. The musician is mentally preparing to lead his band, The New Pornographers, on yet another tour — this time in […]

International funnyman Tom Green first started messing around with music when he was a kid, growing up in Ottawa. With a secondhand drum machine and an Akai sampler, he’d loop 70s funk, R&B, and jazz cuts on his Atari computer, making beats and rapping over them. Of course, Green was also slowly carving out a […]

Elisabeth Maurus was in high school, growing up in Rock City, Illinois, the first time she heard “Cowboy Take Me Away” by the Dixie Chicks. Maurus, best known as singer-songwriter Lissie, came across a 10-second clip of the country ballad on the internet. She thought it was beautiful and listened to the preview over and […]

Old Soul Rebel stand out in Vancouver’s music scene in more ways than one. In a city crowded with folk-singer/songwriters, indie rockers and metal heads, the dynamic duo that is Chelsea D.E. Johnson (vocalist/guitarist ) and Lola Whyte (vocalist/banjo) stand out as a powerhouse soul rock act known for high-energy live shows and larger-than-life personalities. […]

In response to a lack of diversity in Vancouver’s electronic music scene, Betty Mulat and Samira Warsame (also known as Zam Zam) decided to take matters into their own hands. So, in 2017, the friends created NuZi Collective to ensure their community was both seen and heard. “Things were pretty unwelcoming a few years back […]

It was Michael Mann’s 1995 crime thriller Heat that Waingro guitarist Brain Sepanzyk heralds as one of the few masterpieces in a mostly diluted decade of 90s cinema. He even named his Vancouver-based stoner metal trio after one of the film’s most menacing characters. “I watched it relentlessly and fell in love with the character, […]

Every now and then, the trajectory of a solo recording project unexpectedly changes direction after a chance encounter, like placing a small rock in a new stream to divert the course of a future river. For songwriter Evan Resnik, that was meeting up with drummer Mathieu Blanchard in early 2017. Resnik was writing complex, mathy […]

Calgary rapper Sinzere has channeled the resiliency of her family into her music, and subsequently into a burgeoning career that’s landed her on the same stage as artists like Elephant Man, Obie Trice, and Mavado. The young artist originally began as a dancer, then naturally drifted into DJing and MCing. It’s a process that started […]