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Arkells

9X JUNO Award winners Arkells release their surprise single “Handshake Thugs”. The track marks their first new music since their latest album, Between Us, arrived earlier this spring. Featuring the No. 1 singles “Next Summer” and “Money,” Between Us asks blunt questions about the noise of modern life and where

CON THE ARTIST

Following a cross-Canada tour with LØLØ and being named the iHeartRadio Future Star earlier this summer, alt-pop upstart CON THE ARTIST makes his full-length debut with THIS IS A BREAKUP ALBUM, a candid, colourful look at love coming undone and life carrying on. Out now via Wax

Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk

GRAMMY and JUNO Award-winning artist and internationally acclaimed songwriter Chantal Kreviazuk has released Rockstar Joy via Wax Records, an emotionally charged collection of ten new original songs that captures the passion, complexity and contradictions of love and life in the spotlight. With her unmistakable voice and expressive piano at

Tia McGraff's Brand New Adventure Book

Not long ago, Jake was waiting in an animal shelter in Nashville, Tennessee. Today the Husky rides shotgun on tour with two of Canada’s most celebrated folk musicians, and now he’s the star of his own book series. ‘In Your Dreams, Jake: The Trail Goes On,’ the second

LD Christina Rupp

LD Christina Rupp

Earlier in life, Lighting Designer and Production Electrician Christina Rupp was on a path to a career in the medical industry when a visit to a music festival in college changed her life. Mesmerized by the creativity and impact of live production, she recognized its healing potential and found her

The Sheepdogs

Multi-platinum and four-time JUNO Award-winning The Sheepdogs have announced 2027 tour dates bringing their signature rock-and-roll swagger to delighted fans in Western Canada. Kicking off in Victoria, BC on January 21, 2027, the tour includes two back-to-back nights at The Commodore in Vancouver

The Barra MacNeils

The Barra MacNeils

The Barra MacNeils are celebrating four decades of music and family tradition with An East Coast Christmas: 40th Anniversary Tour, bringing their signature blend of Celtic music, Christmas classics and East Coast traditions to stages across Canada this winter. With several dates already sold out, the tour is shaping up

Finger Eleven

Scott Anderson (vocals), James Black (lead guitar, backing vocals), Rick Jackett (rhythm guitar), Sean Anderson (bass), and Steve Molella (drums) Finger Eleven is looking for a Singer! (Not to replace Scott Anderson) Check this out: Finger Eleven wants to make a DUET version of the new single “Last Night on

Ethiopia Habtemariam

Ethiopia Habtemariam

On October 6th in Toronto, the Honey Jam artist development program welcomed HYBE America’s Ethiopia Habtemariam for an executive talk to an audience of emerging artists, creatives and music industry professionals. The former Chairwoman and CEO of Motown Records discussed a wide range of topics including artist development, leadership,

Simple Plan

Simple Plan are extending their global ‘Bigger Than You Think!’ tour, announcing new 2027 dates that mark their first Canadian headlining tour in 10 years. Produced by Live Nation Canada, the 14-date run will bring the band’s high-energy, career-spanning live show to fans across the country,

Junkhouse

Crank the amps, roll down the windows and point the car straight toward the horizon. Junkhouse, the Hamilton, Ontario roots rockers whose ferocious blend of blues, folk and rock 'n' roll helped shape a golden era of Canadian music, are back with "Hot Hot Sun," the

Jason McCoy Brings Canadian Voices Together

Jason McCoy Brings Canadian Voices Together

Photo Credit: Travis Nesbitt It started with a song about what connects us. It became something bigger when Jason McCoy and Michelle Wright travelled to Zimbabwe with World Vision Canada and saw that message firsthand. Today, McCoy brings that experience to life with “We Are One,” a new single that

Jon Mullane

The Canadian singer/songwriter Jon Mullane has won an award for Music Video of the Year - Performance Focused, Male. The 12th Annual Josie Music Awards were presented at the legendary Grand Ole Opry in Nashville TN. With over 100,000 submissions this year, the JMA's are considered the

Roch Voisine

On the eve of his induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame at Toronto’s Massey Hall, Roch Voisine releases his stunning rendition of Gordon Lightfoot’s “If You Could Read My Mind.” Twenty-three years after Lightfoot received the inaugural induction into the CSHF, Voisine joins his legacy

Damhnait Doyle

Acclaimed singer-songwriter Damhnait Doyle (Dav-net Doyle) is set to release her brand new EP, Bird in Flames, this Friday, September 25, her first collection of new music since 2019's Liquor Store Flowers. Before that exciting day arrives, she's dropping the new video for the

TRIBZ

Hamilton and Toronto's TRIBZ release "Young Love" out now, a pop-rock ballad that trades the band's usual social urgency for something quieter and deeply personal, a trip back to first love, sweet sixteen and the memories time can never fully take away. For

Chris McKhool

Chris McKhool, one of Canada's most beloved musicians for children and families, is inviting young listeners to clap, prowl, soar, and splash with his new single "Animal Samba," out now and the first taste of his forthcoming album 'Global Dance Party!' arriving November 6.

Irish Millie

Irish Millie has spent her entire life turning the way her mind works into music, and on her most ambitious project to date, the Peterborough, Ontario singer, songwriter, and fiddler steps fully into that instinct. Her new album, 'Can You See Me?,' is out now, and with it

Susan Aglukark

Inuk singer, songwriter, and Officer of the Order of Canada Susan Aglukark releases "For You," known in Inuktitut as "Igvit" (ᐃᒡᕕᑦ), on Tuesday, September 8, the lead single from her upcoming EP 'Disco Ball.' The song began as a poem Aglukark wrote in 2022

Alex Henry Foster

Alex Henry Foster

Montreal-based experimental rock artist, writer, social worker and human rights advocate Alex Henry Foster revealed “Calling Out!” from his upcoming albumThe Fragile Beauty (Of New Morning Hopes) out October 23. An industrial-sounding, frenetic sea of distortion and desperation, the song paints a sonic canvas of chaotic surroundings and

Noah Kosta

At just 22, Noah Kosta has already spent seven years building the kind of stage command that usually takes decades to earn, and his debut album 'Right Here,' out now, marks the arrival of a jazz pop vocalist with the tone, phrasing, and instincts to carry that tradition

Bruce Cockburn Honours the Songs That Shaped Him

Bruce Cockburn Honours the Songs That Shaped Him

Bruce Cockburn has spent more than five decades writing some of the most enduring songs in Canadian music, and on his new album, 'The Blood of Others,' released October 16th through Sunset Boulevard Records, he turns his attention to the songs that shaped him long before he wrote

The Phil Collins Story

The Phil Collins Story

The Phil Collins Story is currently out on a 50-city North American run It’s a live show. It’s a film. It’s all of the above and then some. The Phil Collins Story, a docu-concert celebrating the life, career, and music of Academy Award, Grammy, and

Emily Mac

Toronto rocker Emily Mac releases her new single "Animal," the closing statement on her debut EP ‘ROCK N ROLL ANIMAL,' out now. Where the earlier songs on the EP dig through heartbreak and hard truths, "Animal" arrives as something looser and more playful, a song

Dee Hernandez

One of the most exciting and magnetic voices emerging from Canada's Latin Jazz music scene, Cuban-Canadian artist, Dee Hernandez, creates music that seamlessly blends Afro-Cuban rhythms, jazz textures, soul, funk, and contemporary songwriting into a sound that is uniquely her own. Based in Atlantic Canada, Hernandez