Alcohol, women, and drugs. You don’t have to look hard to find out what these songs are about, just look at the titles. We’ve got three songs by this Vancouver band by the name of Bute Street, each...
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Polarizing and provocative: The 1975 return with ‘Notes On A Conditional Form’
Polarizing and provocative pop-rock outfit The 1975 have only striven harder and harder to make the kind of experimental and mind-opening music to match what often comes across as delusions of gran...
Dear Father’s new EP is sad, and for a good cause
Ted Kim was supposed to go on tour this spring, but those plans fell apart in the wake of the pandemic. The Chilliwack artist performs under the name Dear Father and he’s been making the most of th...
Melo makes a powerful solo debut with ‘Old Master’
Chinese rap mogul Melo of 88rising has returned with a grunge-inspired, powerfully chaotic album titled Old Master. Following successful solo albums from fellow Higher Brothers members KnowKnow and...
Introducing Tambino and his debut EP
Peruvian artist Kam Tambini is the man behind this project. Originally from Lima, Tambini now resides in New York where he is one-third of the experimental trio Glass Gang. He’s ventured into solo ...
Fake Shark create new video despite social isolation
How do you go about creating a music video in a world where people have to social distance? That’s the challenge for video directors and musicians today. As much as our new isolated way of living h...
Local duo Fionn keep busy from home
For the young alt-folk duo Fionn the hardest part about adapting to the new way of life in the wake of COVID-19 is not being able to play shows. The duo, consisting of twin sisters Alanna and Brian...
Vancouver’s Ludic release new single “Love Me Like”
In French, “ludic” is an adjective that means “showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness.” It is also the name of one of Vancouver’s most promising and unique bands making waves during these s...
Vancouver’s Hollow Twin share new single “Before I Leave”
Hollow Twin has only been recording music for eight years but listening to their haunting, cerebral music, the dark folk-rock duo sounds like they’ve been doing this for eighteen years, particularl...
No World for Tomorrow: Looking back and looking ahead with Coheed’s Claudio Sanchez
When Coheed and Cambria recorded their fourth album, Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume II: No World For Tomorrow, lead singer and guitarist Claudio Sanchez remembers it as a time when ...
Everything certainly is possible with Enter Shikari
“Is this a new beginning?/Or are we close to the end?” The question opens Enter Shikari’s sixth album, Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible. While the world is in the most uncertain positio...
Algiers cooks up a revolution-ready album in There is No Year
The best bands are the ones that have a style and sound a bit difficult to describe. Algiers do not just fall into this category, they have nuzzled their way in, settled there, and produced a strin...
