Canada

“You are gonna see an all-girl two-piece band up there .  I usually have a guitarist with me, but for this I will be playing electric for the whole set… but you’ll experience all of the ups and downs of a normal set,” says pop artist Laur Elle of...

“What’s important to us is touring and playing live.  We put these albums out so we can keep playing and touring…  I thought if we could go to Europe once it would be great, but it’s been like 10 times over,” laughs Mathieu Ball, guitarist and co-founder of Montreal...

“We would play the smaller venue for like a decade, and rolling our amps through the bigger venue, it was kind of like stinging.  So, when our fate changed, it was such a milestone,” says Mother Mother vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter Ryan Guldemond (with whom I last spoke...

Darkroom has the distinction of being our favorite album of the year by an artist that we’ve never actually met.  The LP, which dropped May 17th, is the sophomore full-length from French-Canadian duo Ghostly Kisses (comprised of Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais), the follow-up to 2022’s Heaven, Wait, both...

We last caught up with Land of Talk – Montreal-based indie rock outfit of Lizzie Powell, who have been signed to Saddle Creek since 2008 – in April of 2022, when they were touring behind their four-song Calming Night Partner EP, released in 2021, between 2020 LP Indistinct Conversations...

Since the return of live music, we’ve gotten to know La Force – the solo project of Montreal-based singer/songwriter Ariel Engle, best known as a vocalist for Broken Social Scene (Her husband, Andrew Whiteman, has been with the Canadian indie rock collective since 2001.) – quite well.  La Force’s...

Last week Canadian indie folk rockers released “Hold Me (Diamond Remix),” a remix of the lead single of their fifth studio album, Part Time Believer, which dropped this February on Underneath a Mountain Records/The Orchard/Glassnote Records.  The rootsy anthem was remixed in collaboration with Canadian Billboard top 10 artist...

“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be.  We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...

“You can expect that it is going to be joyful circle work, where the audience is as much a part of the show as we are,” says Canadian-born/Nashville-based singer/songwriter and activist Allison Russell of her band’s current live show.  “I came up in roots music/Americana music, and it’s always...