Canadian hip hop veteran Shad is set to start a bold new chapter with the announcement of his seventh studio album, Start Anew, and the release of its first single ‘Bars & BBQs’ out now. The album will be available across all platforms and in vinyl format on October 31. The lead single ‘Bars & BBQs’ showcases Shad’s signature wit and lyrical dexterity serving up food for thought with clever pop...
Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist Patrick Watson has released ‘The Wandering’, a new collaboration with Portuguese artist MARO. A ghostly duet of wordless harmonies, eerie orchestration, and a subtle bossa nova groove, the new track is featured on Watson’s forthcoming album Uh Oh, out September 26. An official music video will premiere on Watson’s YouTube Channel this Friday at NOON ET, with an afterparty available for premium users, a conversation between him and director Jacob Jonas....
The Barr Brothers have announced that their new album Let it Hiss will be released October 17. Their long simmering and long-awaited fourth studio album isn’t just a collection of 10 vital new songs, it’s a document of transformation. The result of a pivotal shift: a pause for reflection, a reckoning with vulnerability, and a reconnection between two brothers – Brad and Andrew Barr – who’ve spent their entire lives making music...
Unessential Oils releases The Purest of Oils, an instrumental edition of Warren Spicer’s acclaimed 2024 album, Unessential Oils – available digitally everywhere from May 30. Stripped of the vocals, this instrumental version of Unessential Oils brings the project’s influences to the forefront, blending jazz, folk, Tropicalía, and ambient textures to create a medative soundscape. Conceived entirely whilst bathing, the music flows with easy intimacy – fluid, spacious and deeply personal....
Leif Vollebekk and Angie McMahon, unveil a captivating new cover of The Eagles’ iconic hit ‘Take It To The Limit.’ With emotive vocals and haunting lap steel arrangements from Cindy Cashdollar, Vollebekk and McMahon reimagine ‘Take It To The Limit’, offering a fresh yet reverent interpretation to this timeless anthem. Vollebekk honors a major musical influence, “My good friend Angie McMahon and I spontaneously recorded ‘Take It To The Limit’, my favourite Eagles song, when I...
Jesse Mac Cormack steps into an exciting new chapter with the release of ‘All I Want To Be’. This marks the first in a series of singles set to roll out throughout 2025, each one pushing deeper into his dance-driven, electronic sound. With his ever-evolving sonic identity, Jesse continues to solidify himself as a visionary force in the electronic music landscape. Adding to his momentum, Jesse Mac Cormack is nominated...
Montreal’s Bibi Club announces Feu de garde (les braises), the deluxe edition of their acclaimed 2024 album, out everywhere digitally on May 9th. Celebrating Feu de garde’s 1-year anniversary, the reissue delivers four new tracks mixed by Nicolas Basque and mastered by Valentin Ignat, including a cover of Stereolab’s ‘Orgiastic,’ out now, and a reworked version of ‘you can wear a jacket or a shirt’ that features Calvin Johnson. With...
Patrick Watson and Charlotte Cardin release a new collaborative song ‘Gordon in the Willows.’ Haunting in its beauty and simplicity, the song unfurls over lightly arpeggiating piano and Cardin’s breathtaking voice covering a range of multiple octaves, until it disintegrates with a pulse rattling bass and echoing drums. Watson, Polaris Music Prize recipient and Cardin, JUNO Award winner – wrote the lyrics together, and recorded the song last fall at Lost River Studios, in a rural lake village...
Leif Vollebekk announces his Revelation Australian tour. He will play four headline shows across both coasts as his sweeping guitar tones and arresting vocals journey across the country. This tour comes off the back of his critically acclaimed alternative masterpiece Revelation which was released late last year. A project which settled Leif into the realm of lasting indie-folk influence. The tour kicks off at The Rechabite in Perth on Tuesday...
Montreal-based artist Basia Bulat today released her lush and shimmering new album Basia’s Palace on vinyl and CD. The most searching record of her career was co-produced by Bulat with frequent collaborator Mark Lawson (who worked with her on previous albums Tall Tall Shadow and The Garden), mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National), and features string arrangements by Grammy-nominated Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Metric, Alvvays). The album includes gently sweeping new single ‘Daylight,’ about which Bulat explains: “I wrote so much of this...
Brazilian Canadian singer-songwriter Fernie releases his EP Hopeless Dreams, out now. The title song, which he shared last month, was enthusiastically received by several important R&B shows in the UK, notably Victoria Jane’s Future Soul on BBC Radio 1, Manny Norte on Capital Xtra, and DJ Ace on Kiss FM. Last April Fernie released his vulnerable ballad ‘Pain’, co-produced by fellow Montrealer Patrick Watson. The duo performed the song together...
Fernie shares ‘Hopeless Dreams’, a new R&B song and title-track to the Hopeless Dreams EP, releasing on February 14, premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Future Soul and is accompanied by a video directed by Thomas Fontaine, that reveals a new angle of a brutalist world straight from Fernie’s imagination. Fernie expands on the theme of ‘Hopeless Dreams’: “I had just stepped out of a five-year back-and-forth predicament with someone who didn’t see any value...
Gus Englehorn shares his latest single ‘Metal Detector’, a spellbinding exploration of Englehorn’s singular vision, melding doom-folk intensity with absurdist storytelling. Accompanied by an evocative music video directed by Estée Preda, watch below! Drawing inspiration from a friend’s tipsy late-night conversation with a talking shrub in Portland (yes, you read that right), Englehorn has crafted a hypnotic tale of chaotic beauty. “This one is pretty dada,” Englehorn explains, “but I...
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...
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....
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...
