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The last time we caught up with Toronto duo Babygirl – comprised of Kiki Frances and Cameron Bright – was in November of 2021, when they were on the road supporting Jeremy Zucker, which included a stop at TLA where Babygirl stole the show. During our chat I discovered...
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“This next body of work is, I think, the strongest body of work of my career. I created it in the wake of enormous change, and I was set free in a lot of ways, and untethered myself from a lot of expectations,” says multi-platinum, two-time GRAMMY-nominated artist K....
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Last week Ruston Kelly kicked off The Weakness Tour, following the April 7th release of his third full-length, The Weakness, on Rounder Records. The LP had No Depression saying, “Ruston Kelly created an album that turns his own experiences and the layers of his own existence into a universal message...
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This past week, in an interview for Paste, singer/songwriter Laura Stevenson – who you may have most recently seen performing Neil Young covers at the First Unitarian Church, alongside fellow former Bomb the Music Industry! member Jeff Rosenstock – admitted to being a big fan of local celeb. M....
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“We’re never really home for more than four days, so the line between home and road is really blurry,” Sammy Rae tells me during a recent phone chat. Sammy Rae is the frontwoman of Sammy Rae & The Friends, a NYC group who blends classic rock, folk, jazz, musical...
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The Killers are, both literally and figuratively, likely the most Vegas band in the world… and that’s not a bad thing… The Las Vegas group shimmied onto pop music’s radar in 2004 with their ineffably infectious anthem of androgyny, “Somebody Told Me,” a smash single that fully embraced the...
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“We felt like we wanted to make a record that felt like the antidote to the last few years that we went through,” says St. Lucia mainman Jean-Philip Grobler of the band’s fourth LP, Utopia, which drops this Friday, October 7th, courtesy of Nettwerk. The synth-pop band, led by...
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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...
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“I think my favorite reactions are the ones that tend to be slightly confused, like, ‘This is pop punk,’ then, ‘This is totally not pop punk,’ or ‘Oh, shit, they’re heavy! I didn’t know they were that heavy,” says Ashrita Kumar, vocalist of Pinkshift, regarding the way their music...