Canada

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...

This Thursday, November 16th, Montreal indie pop outfit Men I Trust will be playing their biggest show yet in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection, when they headline the 2,500-capacity Franklin Music Hall.  However, we’re just as excited about fellow Montreal indie poppers TOPS, best known for...

You may have caught Canadian singer/songwriter and guitarist Billy Raffoul earlier this year at World Café Live, when he opened The Music Hall for pop rockers American Authors on their Best Night of My Life Tour (This August Raffoul and American Authors even followed-up the tour with a collaborative...

Next Friday, July 14th, TD Pavilion at the Mann will be hosting Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Garbage for the local stop of their double-headlining tour.  However, opening the show is nearly as renowned (and longstanding) indie rockers Metric, who have been kicking out synth-heavy new wave jams...

“It’s so important to me that people listen to the album, fall in love with it, and then come see the live show and fall in love for completely different reasons.  I want them to get something different out of the live show than just what’s on the album,”...

“We’re adapting to a sort of different energy just because we’re older , and things that we’ve had to do because of the pandemic.  We’re trying to be a little less crazy and a little more musical,” says Mike Haliechuk, guitarist, songwriter, and producer for Canadian hardcore punk legends...

“I just love playing shows anywhere…  With every tour it’s a combination of, ‘Oh, wow!  We haven’t been here in a long time,’ or, ‘Hey!  This city has always been so great to us!’” says Nils Edenloff, lead vocalist and guitarist of folky indie rockers The Rural Alberta Advantage,...