Folk singer-songwriter Dan Pallotta has a delicate and hopeful new single to share entitled “Kendra’s Pictures.” The Kendra in question was a neighbour of Pallotta’s who “took the most beautiful landscape and nature photographs that were filled with light.” The song features a gently rolling melody which seeks to transmit a feeling of light and […]

Victoria Staff is an indie pop songwriter who uses the written word to communicate the complex themes of love, loss, and her struggle with mental health to her audience. Her comedic personality is exhibited on her song, “Niagara,” about a trip to Niagara Falls with a relationship that didn’t work out. Thus began her “smear […]

On their fifth studio album, From Nowhere – out September 6th – Mo Kenney (they/them) embraces the textures of ambiguity and the rich blur of being, failing, and becoming. As they shift through lush arrangements that touch on dreamy folk, sparse alt-country, and warm, hazed-out lo-fi pop, everything is up for interpretation and nothing is […]

Toronto artist Just Graham is a songwriter at heart. Since picking up a box violin at the age of five he has always played by ear and listened for the melody. Graham’s latest release is the slow groove, trance-inspired synthpop of “Blood Gutter,” which was inspired by the trauma of Graham and his partner witnessing […]

Brayden Bell is an indie-folk producer/songwriter with ballroom gravitas and campfire-folk relatability. His considerate songwriting pulls truth in detail from the luminosity of everyday emotional directives, like dandelions growing through the sidewalk. The Calgarian’s soaring falsetto brings a sensitivity to a contemporary midwest-emo phrasebook, a Hozier filmstock captured through a Julien Baker lens. Bell has […]

Nok Novum is an instrumental band that has developed a textured sound that cleverly fuses 70’s progressive rock, jazz-fusion, and heavy metal, creating a sound that is chaotic yet mesmerizing. All of the production choices were purely instinctual on Nok Novum’s new song, “Funky Shins.” The great thing about this band is that there are […]

Golden Feather of Hamilton, Ontario, are following up their recent yacht rock tune, “Awakenings,” with a bright and melodic new pop rock exploration of a long term relationship’s growing divide. Written a few months before band member Bradley Germain separated from his wife of fifteen years, “Anything, Anymore” explores complex feelings of “confusion and disorientation […]