Katie Stelmanis was in a rut.  In May 2020, the Toronto musician also known by her middle name, Austra, delivered her fourth studio album...

"I offer Beyond the Uncanny Valley as a working anthology of Black electronic music across generational, geographical and genre lines," Toro...

In a 2017 interview with gal-dem, aja monet said, "I don't share things for you to understand or feel me, I'm sharing something so that we c...

Homecoming isn't for everyone. A heavily ritualized institutional ceremony loaded with the bombast and myth-building of parades and faux-mil...

Harrison's third full length introduces itself with a cloud of vinyl crackle and hiss — a language anyone who's dropped the needle on the ou...

Shoulders back and head straight, Caroline Polachek strode across the volcanic stage set at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre like it was a runway...

"We hope you enjoy your stay / It's good to have you with us / Even if it's just for the day." Standing preacher-like at a keyboard console...

Warming up the room and establishing the material conditions of the occasion, Courtney Barnett opened her Massey Hall performance with the l...

It's the July long weekend and Lance Sampson is working. A union plumber by trade and still a few weeks away from releasing his latest album...

It's the beginning of the end of Kazoo! Fest, and shn shn is seated cross-legged on the floor of the stage at Royal City Mission, an assortm...

Late capitalism permeates all: work days stretching into unnecessary commutes; the market invading private moments and commodifying attentio...

What's Damon Albarn to do with a pandemic? Blur hasn't performed since a one-off gig for one of Albarn's Africa Express events in London in...

Over the past two decades, Liz Harris has embarked on a series of northward moves up the Pacific — Los Angeles, Portland and then further no...

How do you touch the present? That might have been the single question guiding Brandon Valdivia's newest Mas Aya record, Máscaras ("Masks")...

Only Up starts with a statement of disbelief and ends with a sense of direction. Rallying a score of local friends and collaborators, Jos...

Formalizing the declaration of A Tribe Called Red's 2016 album We Are the Halluci Nation by adopting it as their new name, the Halluci Natio...

Stepping out from their main gigs with Last Ex, FET.NAT and VICTIME on the self-titled debut from their new project Album, Olivier Fairfield...

On My Molecules, I M U R singer Jenny Lea often sound like she's given up. The songs are full of Lea's stories of co-dependency and self-med...

Cycles and decay are everywhere in ambient music. As characteristic properties, they effectively speak to the minimalist, generative nature...

Following the breakthrough success of her sophomore classic Ingénue and her subsequent coming out, k.d. lang occupied a curious corner of mu...