Music

Red Bull Sound Select’s 3 Days in Toronto delivered 3 nights of impressive line-ups, including Tory Lanez, Majid Jordan, Badbadnotgood, and A l l i e.  Musically, the city has been pulsating for years -- building on its unique sounds, growing a roster of extraordinary talent, and carving out its place on the global stage.  If you were in Toronto over the weekend and got a chance to experience any of the three nights, you would have seen diverse local talent deliver performances worthy of all the buzz, but if you missed it, check out some photos in our gallery!

Vancouver’s latest pop sensations The Charm Offensive have been revving up the promotion of their debut EP Polite Mouth/Honest Hands and today dropped the video for the single “Eventualities”.  Directed by Ash Middleton, the clip features a couple of handsome greasers as they make their way into the forest for a surreal and nightmarish adventure that, spoiler alert, doesn’t end well for our chiseled stars.

Seaborne are getting better and better with their rapid fire release of singles over the past year. Jumping between Vancouver and Montreal during that period, the group has released their first French language single, "Hypnotise". 

It’s unheard of for a band to break up and then twenty-two years after their last album, record a follow up that is worthy of the long wait in between. Reading UK based Slowdive did just that this year when they released their long overdue fourth, self-titled album. Now with the band preparing to launch their North American tour, starting in Vancouver, they have also graced us with a Grant Singer directed video for the single, “Don’t Know Why”.

On January 19th, 2018, Brighton, UK based The Go Team is set to release Semicircle, their first record in three years. To get you ready for this we have just been treated to that albums first single, an absolutely sunny, exuberant shot of pure joy called “Semicircle Song”. Recorded with the Detroit Youth Choir, “Semicircle Song”, is something completely unique and uniquely The Go Team.

Belle and Sebastian seem to be in the middle of a renaissance. The Glaswegian band just announced that they are releasing a series of EPs, under the name How To Solve Our Human Problems, on December 8th, January 18th and February 16th.

The world’s been on a real downward slide the last few years. Now, at what seems to be peak terrible, LA’s No Age have returned from a long absence to share a little bit of light. On January 26th the two-piece release their brand new album, Snares Like A Haircut, and today have dropped the first taste of the record with the single, “Soft Collar Fad”.

Roger Waters can’t seem to roll out of bed without it becoming a concept album. The former Pink Floyd frontman certainly has a knack for transforming his pie in the sky fantasies into cold, hard slabs of rock reality designed to challenge his audience, even when the music itself leaves something to be desired.

The Atlanta, Georgia music scene seems to foster the type of bands that have the ability to blend a punk rock and garage aesthetic with a southern twang. Cow punk this is not, but something more real, more exciting, something that has the potential to eclipse genre with each album these acts produce. No one represents this more than The Coathangers. The band has been putting out records for nearly a decade now, all the while spending that much time on the road honing their skills.