The Music Room: Summer 2016
New music from Wolf Parade, Chance the Rapper, Jessy Lanza and more.
New music from Wolf Parade, Chance the Rapper, Jessy Lanza and more.
Chandler Levack documents the life and death of Videofag, the tiny living room theatre that became Toronto’s newest art institution.
New music from Junior Boys, Kanye West, Rihanna and more!
New music from Grimes, The Beverleys, Joanna Newsom and more.
New albums from Carly Rae Jepsen, Destroyer, FKA Twigs and more.
New summer music from Jazz Cartier, Metz, Sasha Chapin and more.
Spring listens from BadBadNotGood and Ghostface Killah; Two Gallants; Cancer Bats; THEESatisfaction; Dan Deacon; Of Montreal; Young Guv; Drake and Harrison.
Winter Listens: Death from Above 1979, TV On The Radio, Neil Young, Taylor Swift, Azealia Banks, Stars, Meligrove Band, Parkay Quarts and Absolutely Free.
Fall Listens: The Rural Alberta Advantage, Valery Gore, TOPS, Lowell, Sloan, Alvvays, Spoon, Bahamas, PS I Love You.
Summer releases from Owen Pallett, Chromeo, Fucked Up, Reuben and the Dark, The Black Keys, tUnE-yArDs, White Lung and Babe Rainbow.
Actors turn the human instinct for performance into art. Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project explores this unique psychology.
New releases from Tokyo Police Club, the Hidden Cameras, the Pack A.D., Kelis, Kevin Drew, Each Other, Sam Roberts Band and St. Vincent.
Fall Listens: Braids, Drake, CFCF, Sarah Neufeld, Superchunk, the Sadies, the Darcys, Arctic Monkeys, and Gay.
Summer listens: Majical Cloudz, Hooded Fang, Austra, Gold & Youth, Daft Punk and more.
Spring listens: Reversing Falls, Born Ruffians, Blue Hawaii and more.
Winter listens: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Tegan & Sara, Julie Doiron and more.
A twenty-four-year-old singer called Grimes is the world’s hottest independent pop star, and her fame has cast Montreal into the spotlight yet again.
Fall listens: Diamond Rings, Moon King, Metz and more
Summer listens: Cadence Weapon, Japandroids, Usher, Beach House and more.
The author of Contrivances discusses Fleetwood Mac, sublimation and writing from a woman's perspective.
Spring listens: PS I Love You, Grimes, Nicki Minaj, RatTail and more.
From Rich Aucoin to Rihanna, Young Jeezy to Yuck, here are the finest singles of the year.
Winter listens: Islands, Rich Aucoin, Rae Spoon, Rihanna and more.
“You came to Montreal for what? Your own pleasure?” asks the nurse in strangled English.
Fall listens: Feist, St. Vincent, Drake, Extra Happy Ghost!!! and more.
Summer listens: tUnE-yArDs, Austra, Timber Timbre and more.
The season’s best albums: Destroyer, Braids, PJ Harvey and more.
"There is more to Toronto’s music than a mediocre band with one good album."