Canada

Last December Montreal indie rock outfit Stars treated the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection to a seasonal spectacular at World Café Live as part of their annual North American holiday shows.  The 24-song set included covers of Christmas classics by the likes of The Pretenders and The...

Canadian indie poppers Alvvays have described their latest single, “After The Earthquake” – inspired by Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake – as, “a rapid fire recital of drive-thru breakdown, tectonic breakup and boyfriend in a coma brake failure.”  The track is off of the band’s third LP, Blue Rev, released...

Canadian country singer/songwriter Tenille Townes’ upcoming show at the Music Hall at World Café Live this Friday, November 4th, is at least the third scheduled date for the emerging star’s headlining show at the legendary venue.  This January’s date was rescheduled for June, due to the latest strand of...

A year ago, to the day, Canadian indie folk trio Wild Rivers graced the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection with a sold-out show at The Foundry, shortly after recording their sophomore LP, Sidelines.  The album, which dropped this February on Nettwerk, was characterized by Wonderland as, “sure...

This May Toronto indie rock collective Broken Social Scene announced their tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their breakthrough album, You Forgot It in People, their sophomore LP, which Pitchfork called, “endlessly replayable, perfect pop.”  The album features contributions from longtime friends and collaborators from Do Make Say...

“When I was younger, I listened to a lot of country music, a lot of hair metal, and I was in a shoegaze band in the early 2010s, so I love Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, and Cocteau Twins.  We joke that Honey Harper is ‘bootgaze,’” says Will Fussell, frontman...

Yesterday Ryan Guldemond, frontman of “Canada’s biggest alternative-rock band,” Mother Mother, premiered the debut single from GLDMTH, a solo art project that combines Guldemond’s music, photography, videography, and poetry, and whose self-titled debut LP is set to drop September 24th on Warner Records.  The song, “The People,” is somewhere...

Having released their third LP, WOMB, in April of 2020, “future pop” connoisseurs Purity Ring never got a chance to properly tour the album’s songs, which each serve as a coming-of-age tale of a female protagonist as they are forced to face the deepest-cutting traumas of modernism, which Pitchfork...

Wednesday, April 6th, Canadian indie folk singer/songwriter Leif Vollebekk will be returning to The Music Hall at World Café Live, and tickets are selling fast.  However, opening the evening is equally noteworthy Canadian artist La Force, AKA Ariel Engle, best known as a recent-ish addition (2017) to Canadian indie...