Montreal’s own Jesse Mac Cormack unveils GRIP, his latest EP, blending indie electronic exploration with rich, emotional landscapes. This project captures the highs and lows of growth, vulnerability, and the thrill of reinvention. Jesse teased the EP with ‘La Vérité’ in October, a collaborative single featuring Toronto’s Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ. With its infectious, up-tempo energy, setting the stage for GRIP’s complex themes of memory, nostalgia, and the...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals an acoustic version of ‘Peace of Mind’ off his critically acclaimed new record Revelation. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ is a captivating acoustic take. “‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ felt like it wanted its own space, separate from the album version,” says Vollebekk. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ arrives alongside an official visualiser directed by Andy Mann, offering fans a sensory journey that pairs perfectly with the song’s immersive tones....
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Basia Bulat shares ‘My Angel’, the opening track from her forthcoming album Basia’s Palace, out 21 February 2025. The new single arrives with a Nora Rosenthal-directed video, watch below! “This is a song about love at first sight–a rush of overwhelming emotion that feels definite, unmistakeable, and mysterious all at the same time. I wanted my singing on this song to reflect the way that I wrote the music: sneaking...
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After releasing her debut album earlier this year, Fabiana Palladino returns with new single ‘Drunk’. Self-written and produced, ‘Drunk’ was recorded at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios in August of this year alongside Ellis Dupuy (Drums) and Joe Newman (Guitar), with her father and the legendary Pino Palladino later adding his signature bass to complete the track. The new single sees Palladino shift from the silky, polished production on her debut album to a more raw, immediate sound. It captures the energy of live performance...
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Fontaines D.C. announce their ROMANCE Australian tour. They will play five headline shows and two festivals across the country in February and March 2025. They begin their Australian romance at Perth Festival on February 27th, before moving onto Brisbane where they will play at Riverstage on March 1st. The band will join the stacked lineup at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong on March 2nd before playing Sydney Opera House...
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Jesse Mac Cormack announces a brand-new EP GRIP, to be released November 25th. He also shares a new single from the EP, ‘La Vérité’ featuring both Toronto’s singer-songwriter Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ. ‘La Vérité’ is of a virtual quality, it asks you to feel it all for a last time with an invasive and up-tempo melody. The project is entrenched with memory while always stringing you forward into...
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Patrick Watson – the singer/songwriter, film composer and pianist based in Montreal, Canada – returns with new single ‘Silencio’, featuring the rising French singer-songwriter November Ultra. Inspired by an experience where Watson couldn’t speak or sing for nearly three months, ‘Silencio’ explores some of the impressions that came to him during this time: does he talk too much?; the anxiety that comes with reliving a conversation, learning to be a...
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Klô Pelgag has released long awaited record Abracadabra, out now. As a final teaser for the album, Klô Pelgag debuted ‘Le goût des mangues’ which premiered via the magazine Elle Québec, having just returned from Paris, where she launched her new album during an exclusive event for her fans. About her latest song, Klô whispers enigmatically that “the season is a weapon we must know how to fear.” The song...
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Toronto rapper Shad and Michigan based producer 14KT have surprised everyone by dropping a brand-new EP showcasing their recent collaboration. Reel Speakers, a four-track EP stemming from freestyles Shad did on socials, is a compact, high-energy listening with beat, grit, soul, and hope. It is out now on all streaming platforms. The pair, having met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic Playlist Retreat years prior, connected over freestyles Shad was doing...
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If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and...
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Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, releases the latest single ‘Off Season Blues’ off her debut solo album Dial-Up, out 8 November. ‘Off Season Blues’ takes us to a vibrant oasis watered by Frew’s intimacy. A stirring, nostalgia-fuelled story of loneliness and lost love, this is four-minutes of Frew as her most personal and most fragile self. “I wrote this song on an Eavestaff mini piano in the dusty...
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Basia Bulat announces her new album Basia’s Palace – co-produced by frequent collaborator Mark Lawson, and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine – will be released on February 21, 2025. As well as sharing the glistening lead single ‘Baby’, an elegant dance-inflected track augmented by strings courtesy of GRAMMY-nominated arranger Drew Jurecka. The track showcases the stunning, silvery voice of three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee...
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Fernie announces brand-new EP Hopeless Dreams, available on February 14. Fernie also unveils ‘Bones & All’, a hauntingly introspective new single. This track captures the EP’s exploration of navigating heartbreak and emotional struggle with both elegance and intensity, reflecting the signature grace and grit that define Fernie’s music. “The song generalises the horrors of being in an abusive environment.” Fernie explains, “Do we truly know the deep psychological impact we place upon younger generations? If I...
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The Hard Quartet release brand new single ‘Our Hometown Boy’, alongside a video by Jared Sherbert. Watch below! Their self-titled debut album, The Hard Quartet, is out on October 4th. The new group features Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White. “In ‘Our Hometown Boy,’ The Hard Quartet mythologises the fierce inhabitants of our shared hovels and shangri-las from the vantage point of a beach famous for the undertow. A conversation about what paradise looks...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’, a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron. His new album Revelation is out September 27th. “This is the ‘evening version’ of ‘Peace of Mind’,” says Leif. “This version isn’t even on the record. It just wanted to be its own thing… I suppose I wanted it to remind me of the bliss I feel when a great song come on the radio on...
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Two years after the release of his record Dungeon Master, former pro snowboarder reborn nomadic psych-pop prophet Gus Englehorn announces brand new album The Hornbook, due for release January 31st. Today he shares a first glimpse of the new record with the nervy post-punk propulsion of a track that is ‘Thyme’. “This song is about someone who travels back in time to Scarborough fair,” Gus says. “A song about yearning...
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