Practicing and perfecting their sound in bar after bar down the Montreal to Waterloo corridor, Urban Preacher recorded this self-titled EP in a Toronto studio and did so while managing...

The Magic Couple, by Amadou and Mariam, is a collection of the Malian duo’s greatest hits, but more than that, it’s a beautiful, upbeat, dance-meets-rock synergy of tribal rhythms and...

Genius: the one and only word to describe Five Star Trailer Park’s most recent release, The Fight That Broke Your Heart. This group of Canadian musical masters is slowly but...

Greg Wood has the right voice for the genre. He’s coarse and throaty with just the slightest hint of a carnal growl. The enthusiasm is there. The influence of all...

Theo Tams’ Give it All Away is a seemingly perfect pop album. It mixes the vital pop album ingredients: the love ballad, the “Cry Me a River” tearjerker and the...

IV is a great collection of classic beats with a twist of fusion. The undertone of the tracks is so effortlessly reggae, it’s as if The Aggrolites are channelling their...

Invaders Must Die is 11 tracks of pumping electronica that would please the crowd at any rave club. Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality, the eccentric frontmen of The...

It's hard to put my finger on what it is about Dave Borins that captures me. The Lucky Ones, a five-song EP, fuses the warmth of late 60's Island Record...

You know how sometimes English musicians when they sing, don’t sound like they’re English. Yeah, that’s not an issue with Koogaphone’s Julie Gravell; she’s British, you know it. It’s similar...

Thank god for a rock 'n' roll band that wasn't discovered by Pete Wentz on MySpace. Their launch into greater-known-territory, however, was still somewhat caused by MTV (they won a...