Body Type Find the Magic in the Everyday on Tally

Love, in Body Type‘s world, lives in the small stuff. The unglamorous, easily overlooked gestures that quietly hold a relationship together, or quietly give it away. That is the territory Sophie McCom...

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Nap Eyes, Ribbon Skirt and Packs Land at La Sala Rossa Next Week

Good Shows has lined up one of the summer’s more compelling indie bills for La Sala Rossa on Thursday, July 30. Nap Eyes, Ribbon Skirt and Packs share the stage, with Montreal’s Fireball Kid on DJ dut...

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Poppy + Landmvrks @ MTelus

Poppy is one of those artists I still can’t explain to a stranger without sounding a little unhinged. The doll videos, the hyperpop phase, and now some of the heaviest music you’ll hear on a big stage...

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MINOE Wrote Down the Cruellest Things She Says to Herself. Then She Sang Them Back.

The line arrived before the song did. When MINOE sat down to write Shell, the Nova Scotia-born, now Toronto-based singer-songwriter did not reach for a melody or a metaphor. She reached for the senten...

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Allison Russell on In the Hour of Chaos: “A Mixtape for a Musical I Haven’t Written Yet”

She calls it “the mixtape for musical that I haven’t written yet,” and it is the cleanest description of In the Hour of Chaos you could ask for. A mixtape implies other people. It is made with someone...

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Theo Day Turns a Breakdown Into a Chorus on Leave You Behind

Theo Day talks about Leave You Behind as if it were inevitable, not because he planned it, but because he recognizes the pattern in himself. When life tips into a certain kind of chaos, he writes. Whe...

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Montreal Tech-Death Volubilis Share Full Debut Album Theasterion

Montreal technical death metal band Volubilis are giving listeners an early, full-album stream of their debut LP Theasterion. The band has teamed up with Decibel Magazine to premiere the record ahead ...

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Montreal's Aizysse Baga Sets Debut Album 'Divacore Vol. 1' for Pride Weekend

Montreal drag artist and performer Aizysse Baga will release a debut album, Divacore Vol. 1, on July 31, timed to a hometown release show and the opening of the city’s Pride festivities. Aizysse is a ...

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Album Review: Magi Merlin - POWER HOUSE

I’m writing this from my home in Saint-Lazare, and Magi Merlin is from here too. It’s a family-suburb kind of town, which makes POWER HOUSE feel even more like a deliberate breach. Then the record sta...

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Cailin Russo + MINOE @ Bar le Ritz

Following two performances in Toronto, Cailin Russo brought her Don’t Tour to Montreal for a powerful and emotionally charged debut in the city. San Diego-born Cailin Russo is far from a newcomer to t...

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2026 Polaris Album Short List Revealed

CBC and the Polaris Music Prize have revealed the 10-album short list for the 2026 Polaris Music Prize, with the winner set to be announced at the Polaris Concert & Award Ceremony at Massey Hall in To...

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Basia Bulat Reworks Basia's Palace on New EP 'Bouquet'

Basia Bulat will release a new EP, Bouquet, on August 28 through Secret City Records. The five-song set gathers acoustic reworkings of material from her recent album Basia’s Palace, recorded in Montre...

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Allison Russell on In the Hour of Chaos: “A Mixtape for a Musical I Haven’t Written Yet”

She calls it “the mixtape for musical that I haven’t written yet,” and it is the cleanest description of In the Hour of Chaos you could ask for. A mixtape implies other people. It is made with someone...

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Ada Lea Shares "copycat" and Announces New EP the end is a wave

Ada Lea, the project of Montreal songwriter Alexandra Levy, has shared “copycat,” the first single from a new EP, the end is a wave, due August 12 on Next Door Records. It is her first release since l...

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Lambrini Girls + Big Girl @ Beanfield Theatre

Hailing from Brighton, UK, Lambrini Girls are my absolute favourite musical discovery of last year. In a similar vein to IDLES or Bob Vylan, they’re exactly the type of abrasive, politically fuelled, ...

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ZOKALO Play Their First Live Show in Montreal on Saturday

ZOKALO, a new Montreal band, play their first show on Saturday, July 11 at Cafe La Ligne Verte, the small room at 2531 Rue Ontario Est in the city’s east end. The set starts at 5:30 PM. The band works...

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Ada Lea Shares "copycat" and Announces New EP the end is a wave

Ada Lea, the project of Montreal songwriter Alexandra Levy, has shared “copycat,” the first single from a new EP, the end is a wave, due August 12 on Next Door Records. It is her first release since l...

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Montreal's Julie Neff Releases Debut Album fine. on July 10

Montreal alternative artist Julie Neff releases her debut full-length album, fine., on Friday, July 10, 2026. The twelve-song record follows three EPs and performances across Canada, Brazil, Mexico, I...

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Bodywash Shake Off the Darkness

Bodywash have never been a band in a hurry. The Montreal duo of Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward met in university, earned early attention in the local scene with a self-titled EP, sharpened their ...

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Bodywash Shake Off the Darkness

Bodywash have never been a band in a hurry. The Montreal duo of Rosie Long Decter and Chris Steward met in university, earned early attention in the local scene with a self-titled EP, sharpened their ...

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5 Seconds of Summer @ Bell Centre

Some shows are so important to me that when I submit myself for a photo and review pass, I still buy myself a ticket. On these rare occasions, it’s thrilling when one of my most anticipated concerts o...

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An evening with Cake @ Olympia

Reluctantly crouched as we stand in line, knees pumping and thumping in time… no, seriously, there was a massive lineup, and Cake fans are old now. Open the doors on time! With the crowd finally insid...

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Three Days Grace + Finger Eleven + Royal Tusk - Hamilton

Alienation Tour 2026 did not just stop in Hamilton on May 3, it shook the foundation of the TD Coliseum. Royal Tusk, Finger Eleven, and Three Days Grace tore through the arena with the kind of force t...

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Kurt Vile + The Sadies @ Beanfield Theatre

It has been probably 15 years or so since I first saw Toronto’s The Sadies, and I thought they were pretty cool then. I think they are pretty cool now, too. Their sound is listed as “alternative count...

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Amyl and The Sniffers + L7 + Party Dozen @ Place Bell

Party Dozen It did not take long at all for Party Dozen to win over the early crowd. They impressed me, and everyone else there, with their noise style. Drummer Jonathan Boulet gave an impressive perf...

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Arkells + Ernesto Barahona @ Beanfield Theatre

At the start of June, Arkells rolled through Montreal on a warm, fun-filled wave of good vibes and banging tunes. The Canadian alternative rock mainstays have been touring their new album Between Us a...

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Clay Hazey Releases EP The Things I'm Not

Clay Hazey has released his new EP The Things I’m Not, out today, July 2, with a release party set for tomorrow, July 3, at Bar L’Escogriffe. The Montreal songwriter works in contemporary country and ...

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Prepare The Ground Festival - Toronto

The drive from Montreal to Toronto is not a short one. When I pulled into the Annex on the Friday evening as Prepare the Ground was getting underway, it was only my second time in the city. I had made...

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Spencer Krug's Same Fangs Is the Sound of a Song That Refused to Be Rewritten

In the fall of 2024, Spencer Krug came home from a Sunset Rubdown tour and tried to rewrite a song. The original, “Listening to Music in Cars,” had been a warm piece of reunion nostalgia, written the ...

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