No longer a young man with a banjo trying to pass as old, Old Man (Chris) Luedecke is back with another collection of songs on subjects he f...

"I thought it was kind of a joke song or a novelty song," Doug Paisley tells Exclaim! of "Starter Home," the title track from his fourth alb...

Like the Weather Station's Loyalty, Doug Paisley's Starter Home was recorded after an entire album's worth of music was set aside in order t...

"Keep Calm and Decolonize" may as well be the motto for Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography, an intimate and conversational history...

Before there was bragging in hip-hop, there was boasting in rock'n'roll, and Wild! Wild! Wild!, Robbie Fulks and Linda Gail Lewis's collabor...

There are only three musicians on British songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Olivia Chaney's second solo album, Shelter: producer Thomas B...

It sounds like metaphorical fodder for one of her darker songs, yet Neko Case's house really did burn down last fall after she'd written the...

Neko Case was in Sweden, putting the finishing touches on her glistening, anthemic tenth album with co-producer Björn Yttling (of Peter Björ...

Jennifer Castle was already grappling with ideas about grief, writing and legacy on the songs that would become her new album Angels of Deat...

Jennifer Castle recorded the first half of Angels of Death — her fifth album and followup to her Polaris Music Prize-shortlisted Pink City —...

Jeremy Dutcher is a composer, anthropological researcher, pianist, activist, classically trained operatic tenor and time traveller. If that...

Over the course of ten albums and nearly two decades, Portland OR-based Laura Veirs has quietly and independently become one of the most wel...

The "We Are All In This Together" backdrop illuminated behind the stage was presumably meant to empower the crowd, or perhaps it was a refer...

On his innovative debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, Jeremy Dutcher combines his classical music background — he's a trained operatic...

The Lookout is Laura Veirs' tenth album, and first to follow her 2016 collaboration with Neko Case and k.d. lang, case/lang/veirs. It finds...

They say you have your whole lifetime to make your debut album, but Toronto-based composer and classically trained operatic tenor Jeremy Dut...

Haley Heynderickx likens being interviewed to being cornered by a bunch of people with flashlights; she's still getting used to having to ex...

It took Portland, OR songwriter Haley Heynderickx three attempts to record her debut album, I Need To Start A Garden: the first, on a freezi...

H.C. McEntire's solo debut, Lionheart, is a rousing and soothing album of contemporary gospel country-rock, a genre reimagined and sung out...

For Andy Shauf and his band (a sprawling 10-piece last night, November 23) Massey Hall marked a safe and triumphant return home from practic...