The concept behind Muskox‘s latest full-length release came to composer Mike Smith when he was 14 years old and dreamed of creating music to complement the fantasy novels he liked. Clocking in at just under 50 minutes, Invocations/Transformations is indisputably fantastical, featuring 10 distinct tracks that subvert traditions of progressive rock and jazz music through [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The quick crush you’re going to develop on the Skeletones Four might surprise you. Hailing from Guelph but based in Toronto, the band’s proper [...]

Graham Wright is better (un?)known as the keyboardist for local indie-rock wunderkinds Tokyo Police Club, but on Shirts Vs. Skins he makes a strong bid for an official solo guy position. In 2008 he released the free-download The Lakes of Alberta EP, but its brevity and folksy singer/songwriter-y lean made it feel a little less of an certified side project than an easy uptake for anyone in a band with an acoustic guitar and Garageband.

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. On their new album Departing, the Rural Alberta Advantage haven’t actually done much of that at all. Instead, the sophomore full length sounds like [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Guitar-pop outfits may be a dime a dozen around these parts, but even still, when Ruby Coast released their new full length, Whatever This [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. The homemade nature of Matthew Adam Hart’s music might make one assume that he could or should be cranking albums out a lot faster [...]

Courtesy of Feist. It’s been easy, as it often is in these cases, to lose touch with Feist as she ascended from beloved, quirky Canadian crooner into an international star over the past few years. At Sunday night’s screening of her excellent new documentary, Look at What the Light Did Now, the room (eagerly addressed [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. After the success of last summer’s “All Yr Songs” video, one-man bedroom-popsmith Diamond Rings kept churning out singles, and it seemed to be a [...]

Toronto’s Diamond Rings threw himself a triumphant little CD release party at the Garrison on Tuesday night. What started as a seeming alter-ego side project to his frontman duties with his once–main squeeze, the (long overdue for a second album) post-punk quartet D’Urbervilles, has transformed into a full-fledged force, and it’s been nothing short of [...]

Believe it or not, music videos still exist. Sound Tracks trolls the internet to find the best and the worst of local artists’ new singles and the good, bad, or otherwise noteworthy visuals that accompany them. It’s been four years since the Meligrove Band lit up our indie pop lives with their underrated album Planets [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. After last year’s well-received debut, the Hymns of Love and Spirit EP, The Wilderness of Manitoba made their way back to their home basement [...]

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. For those who were taken with Forest City Lovers‘ folk-pop complexity on the 2008 attention-earning sophomore album Haunting Moon Sinking, it’s felt like a [...]