Jeff MacCallum writes about the Ritchot Textiles show at the Aviary in Edmonton, AB on April 2nd, 2025.

We premiere the first track from the new EP Single Cell Nostalgia by Montreal band The Painters, coming out on April 11th.

We premiere the new LP from Toronto noise-rockers Gloin.

We premiere the debut release from The All Margarines and Spreads Blues Band, a little springtime ditty called “Can I Get Your Number?”.

We premiere “Razzle Dazzle” from Edmonton rockers Tebby & the Heavy, the second single from their just-announced debut album Heavy Afternoon, coming in the summer of 2025.

We premiere the new music video the “Hot Dr. Pibbs”, from Bad Hoo’s May 2024 album A Run-In With Worms.

We premiere the video for the new song from Paige Drobot, "Alien Girl", the A-side to a new 7" record that you can preorder today.

We premiere the song “Same Hands” from Mallory Chipman’s new album Songs To A Wild God, due out tomorrow, September 27th.

We premiere the new music video for "Bad Boy of Redemption Ranch" from Edmonton's own Bobby Tenderloin Universe.

We premiere the new single "Dusty Vinyl" from the upcoming Wolf Willow album Soul of Slippery Butte, due out September 10th.

Ava Glendinning writes about The Burning Hell’s Ghost Palace, a mischievous and defiant celebration of hope and humanity in the face of armageddon.

Julie Maier reviews Because You Love Everything from Marlaena Moore, a dreamlike jangle-pop meditation on self-reflection, vulnerability, and the relentless need for creativity.

Harman Burns reviews Humanhood from The Weather Station, an essential album brimming with the pure force of human spirit in the face of existential threats.

Chris Lammiman reviews Out From Underneath by Montreal band Prism Shores, a breath of cathartic fresh air that simultaneously pulls you both inward and up and out of yourself. 

Ava Glendinning reviews Thunder Perfect Mind from New Brunswick’s Motherhood, an album notable for both its comic-book momentum and its value as a work of fantastical sci-fi poetry.

Chris Lammiman reviews the debut LP from Calgary’s Stucco, the aptly named LP1, “a gem of an album well worth a spin on your way through the streets”.

Artemis Peaslee reviews the appropriately ethereal new album Think of Mist from Dorothea Paas.

Longtime Cups N Cakes writer JD Ormond returns with his first review in years, a negative odyssey on the subject of the new Holy Void record, All Will Be Revealed In Time.

Clay Geddert reviews Yoo Doo Right’s album From the Heights of Our Pastureland, a record that “encapsulates all the fervor and tenacity that defines Yoo Doo Right”.

Cups N Cakes is back from our holiday break with Ava Glendinning’s review of Hildegard’s October 2024 album Jour 1596.

Chris Lammiman writes about the new record Shame from OMBIIGIZI, a record that creates a “sense of expansive welcome that does offer invitation into catharsis and beauty”.

Chris Lammiman writes a review of Ontario songwriter and yes, national treasure, Jennifer Castle’s latest record Camelot.

Find out what we are excited to hear in 2024.