BY Dave Morris

The Balconies drive the kids to distraction while The Beauties whip them into a devilish frenzy at The Horseshoe; Nightmare Air somewhat live up to their name at the Velvet Underground; The Hoa Hoa's...

BY Chris Bilton

Baptized In Blood deliver grade A metal at the Hideout; Montreal indie kids Parlovr make their influences work together at the El Mocambo; Gobble Gobble channel the Muppets in a sweaty Bread and...

BY Alex Nino Gheciu

Saskatchewan's Black Book Value keep Theory of a Creedleback mook-rock alive at The Central; Brit MC Speech Debelle delights at Lee's Palace; Harvey Milk take it slow at the Annex Wreckroom; reformed...

BY Liisa Ladouceur

1980s glam-rock icons Platinum Blonde age gracefully at Mod Club; Hellsongs transform heavy-metal classics into soft pop; Fucked Up collect A&R business cards at the El Mocambo. 

BY Chris Bilton

CNN anchors John Roberts and Kyra Phillips served as tag-team interviewers for this morning's super-popular Canadian Music Week keynote address, adding a certain level of prestige to the presence of...

BY Chris Bilton

Fans of math-metal O.G.s The Dillinger Escape Plan are notoriously loyal and long-suffering — almost as much as the band members themselves.

BY Dave Morris

“There are probably better technical rappers, and certainly more technically accomplished singers, but it would be hard to find artists engaged in the lit-hop angle I’m working.”

BY Stuart Berman

The indie-rock trio talk Say It, their new album; also, we preview CMF shows by artists who, like Born Ruffians, have already been on our cover

BY Jason Anderson

In my humble view, there are only two true varieties of rock hero: mouthy Liverpudlians and shaggy Welshmen. Both are represented in Canadian Music Week’s increasingly hearty film component.

BY Denise Benson

Clubs columnist Denise Benson selects CMF's best dance-party bets, including Star Eyes and The Captain, Samiyam, M.A.N.D.Y., Classixx and Aries.

BY Chandler Levack

Where Halifax indie-rock five-piece Wintersleep stomps and shudders, frontman Paul Murphy’s side project, Postdata, is soft and whispered.

BY Stuart Berman

Vancouver trio deal in the sort of familiar throwback-rock that’s made Joel Plaskett and Zeus CBC Radio 3 favourites, but cast in a moonlit, dreamy glow.

BY Chandler Levack

Belgian singer-songwriter Milow's third album is his magnum opus — 18 tracks of placid piano ballads and acoustic love songs.

BY Chandler Levack

The coolest indie-rock two-piece in Canada isn’t from Vancouver, Montreal or even Parkdale. They reside in the university town of Kingston, Ontario and shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. We speak to PS I...

BY Dave Morris

Not many of us have the good fortune of having the music we grow up loving becoming more popular as it gets older. Dimitri From Paris is one such lucky guy, whether it’s the spacey mid-’80s nuggets...