Charlottetown’s Boxer the Horse are releasing their second full-length album, French Residency, on March 13. Yesterday, they let rip the first single from the album, “Rattle Your Cage,” on Read More

I recently signed up for Netflix, and I’ve been loving the music documentaries on there. Recently I’ve watched great stuff like I Need That Record, about indie record stores and the music industry, as well as Until the Light Takes Us, about those wacky Norwegians and how they love to listen to metal and burn down churches. I was at a little...Read More

Lurking in Toronto's shadows for a number of years, Deloro have finally stepped into the light. Along with visual artist Tony Romano, the five-piece is comprised of some of the biggest talents in Canadian independent music: Jennifer Castle (aka Castlemusic), David Clarke (One Hundred Dollars), Paul Mortimer (One Hundred Dollars), and Dallas Wehrle (Constantines). Their...Read More

It seems like so long ago now that Feral Children -- which had up until late 2009 been the solo project of Saskatoon musician Ryan Davidson -- developed into a fully-formed four-piece band. Initially featuring Davidson on guitars, loops and vocals, Will Kaufold on Guitar, Sarah Charters on Bass and Nathan Youngs on drums, the band immediately exploded, adapting Davidson’s...Read More

A fantastically crafted album that’s been on repeat in every musical appliance I own lately is Summer of Lust by Library Voices [LV]. The Regina supergroup’s sophomore full-length collection came out on August 23rd, which helped kicked off their tour across Canada. I saw these guys in concert last year, and soon after purchased Denim on Denim. That disc also got some...Read More

CFCR Music Department QUICK PICK Fourth album from this Leicestershire, UK quintet shows a band truly on the top of their game. Chock full of anthems (“Days Are Forgotten”) and minimal offerings best suited for late night sessions (“I Hear Voices”), Kasabian are proving that a...Read More

It wasn’t until I fully began to understand and enjoy Kraftwerk’s emotionless robotic idealisms in electronic music that I desired to find more artists whose musical oscillations provided background for the same distant near-human vocal drones I had grown to crave. Leave it up to The Modern Men to fill that void in my life! Laced with hypnotic grooves, the...Read More

As long as humans have had feelings, there have been heartbreak songs.  While they might forever be relevant in some context, it is obvious that the quality of love songs in pop music have plummeted in recent years.  Thank Aphrodite there are still musical saviors out in the world harkening back to the days when rock ‘n roll was young and love songs were...Read More

There has always been a duality to the music of Shuyler Jansen. On the surface, Jansen deftly writes poignant and melodic songs, but there has always been more to his approach than that. Perhaps best described by the title his first solo album, Hobotron, Jansen’s music treads on the line between tradition and progression, where the dusty road meets the information...Read More

Parodying The Smiths right out of the gate with the title of their brand new EP Safeways Here We Come is exactly what one hopes for and expects from Calgary’s Chixdiggit – snotty playfulness. After spending the last six years constantly touring in Europe as well as misusing studio time to re-record their first album, the quartet has recently released a...Read More