12 Faces of Canadian Music

Jill Barber smiles, folding her arms on the table tucked in the back corner of Aleph Eatery, a Middle Eastern café not far from where she lives in …

You want to go homeYou want to know the wayYou want to know the when and the whySomehowIt’s in your heart nowIt’s in your heartDan Bejar does a big …

As the cold recedes and the cherry blossoms perform their annual bloom, springtime in Vancouver will also be signalled by a resounding return to live …

At about four o’clock every morning, while her household is still asleep, Bif Naked watches the sunrise. She absorbs the rays slowly as they beam …

In the winter of 2019, Simon Ward was returning home from a European tour with The Strumbellas. The indie rock band’s front man was feeling uneasy …

Frazey Ford stands in a garden bed holding a shovel, enveloped in a cloud of puffed sleeves, ruffles, and skin-tight sequined pants. “This is …

“The prophecy heralds an epoch of eternal peace when Indigenous peoples and settler communities together build the eighth and final fire of justice …

The morning has been, Tegan and Sara Quin tell me, total chaos. Sara is in the midst of moving. She sold her house on the North Shore to relocate to …

Chin Injeti has always been a Stevie Wonder fan. When the Grammy and Juno Award-winning artist was growing up in Toronto, Wonder’s 1978 album Songs in …

It’s hard to write about celebrity death in the age of instant everything. Usually (or, at least, hopefully), we love celebrities for punching …

On radios around the world in that whimsical pop music year of 1964, one song sounded like no other.It opened with a sad, slow horn. After a few …

When Vancouver musician Dan Mangan wrote this essay for our Winter issue five years ago, he lamented that popular music was no longer political. …