Music

The Go! Team is known for their hyperactive collage-esque arrangements. The band has a way with filtering their organized chaos into some of the most highly addictive pop songs of the last decade. With their highly anticipated new album, Semicircle, now out on record store shelves around the world, the team has decided to change things up a bit with the debut of their brand new single “The Only Thing New Is U Finding Out About It.” Driven by the catchiest little kalimba line, the track is almost chill compared to their past releases.

After years of blocky pixels and rudimentary graphics, the promise of full motion video on home gaming consoles was nothing short of revolutionary. Throw a few of your favourite tunes into the mix and you’ve got yourself the makings of a fantastic time, right? Not exactly, I’m afraid. The 1992 release of the Sega CD in North America offered gamers the exciting chance to enjoy CD-ROM-based titles from the comfort of their living rooms, but a lack of imagination and the limitations of a technology still in its infancy sabotaged this much-maligned accessory from the outset.

The Internet is practically synonymous with cats at this point. Countless memes, Instagram accounts and Facebook posts are devoted to those lovable little buddies. Yesterday, Calgary based artist Astral Swans announced the release of his new album Strange Prison with a delightful little video starring one of the cutest little kittens you ever saw. The track, “What Are You Gonna Do With Yourself”, is a lightly introverted psychedelic number featuring a rollicking drumbeat and Swan’s soft and alluring vocals.

After leaking a few of the artists performing this past weekend, Osheaga's festival team has just released the official line-up for the 2018 edition, taking place August 3-5 at Montreal's Parc Jean-Drapeau. Highlights include Travis Scott, St. Vincent, Blondie, Arctic Monkeys, Tyler the Creator, Franz Ferdinand and Florence & The Machine.

Brad Paisley’s got a real hate on for Hollywood. His beef with Lipstick City goes all the way back to “Celebrity”, Paisley’s 2003 single that trashes how the famous can say “adios, reality” and behave like animals yet escape scot-free. Released in 2007 as the second single from 5th Gear, “Online” is Paisley’s attempt to make sense of the confusing cultural monolith that is the internet. You see, Brad’s just a simple country boy from West Virginia. He doesn’t understand fame, technology, or pretty much any paradigm shift since the Dust Bowl.

Best known for his smooth 1980 hits “Steal Away” and “Hot Rod Hearts”, famed dad rocker Robbie Dupree probably didn’t seem like a natural fit for the midnight world of “sports entertainment,” yet by 1987 his rapidly fading star prompted him to release “Girls in Cars” on the WWF compilation Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II. “Girls in Cars” is the deluded saga of one man’s love-hate relationship with, well, girls in cars.

It’s really nice when great things happen to great people. Today it was announced that the wonderful Jo Passed are not only releasing a new album, Their Prime, but that it’s coming out on May 25^th via Hollerado's Royal Mountain Records in Canada and the mighty Sub Pop Records in the US/Worldwide. As if that wasn’t news enough, today we were also treated to the new video for the album’s first single “MDM”. Directed by Eleanor Petry the clip explores the band’s relationship with their phones.

It’s been eight years since Martine Groulx has made any new music. As the leader of Montreal’s Camaromance, the singer songwriter released three records between 2004 and 2010 then fell off the map. Recently Groulx found herself mourning a series of losses and was inspired to get her feelings out in the best way that she could, through music. Her new album Chasing Clouds will be dropping April 6th on Simone Records and features some of Groulx’s most personal songwriting to date. Today she releases “Audrey” the first single from that album.