Author Joanna Jiang

“Drum machine way up,” local favourite Xiu Xiu requested of The Chapel’s sound technician last Sunday, two songs into their set. With or without cranked monitors, they were predictably noisy. But the s...

Sometime in the last couple of years, British Columbia’s Teen Daze (Jamison) disclosed his last name (Isaak) and relocated to Abbotsford, a quieter part of the Fraser Valley he’s called home the entire time...

“I love you more than you love yourself,” croons Katie Stelmanis on a lead single of the same title from Austra’s recent album, Future Politics, out January 20 via Domino. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

After a quick live equipment check, Brooklyn songstress VÉRITÉ (real name Kelsey Byrne) hit the Fillmore stage before an impressively energized post-Folsom Street Fair crowd. The second opener for fellow Eas...

After a relatively quiet year, Robert Alfons (main mastermind behind Canadian, dark electronic act TR/ST) posted on Facebook a video last month hinting at a third release. The surprise followed his June announc...

By coincidence, we are perhaps starting to associate Savoir Adore with the end of (holi)days. The last time lead song architect Paul Hammer and company were in town, we were trying to make the most of the final...

Commonly compared to a young Madonna, Aleksandra Denton (as Shura) is, in personality, much more inconspicuous. With a sweet demeanor and dyed ends, Denton blends in with today’s alternative crowd. And her br...

“WHO THE HELL IS RIVER TIBER AND WHY IS HE SUDDENLY EVERYWHERE?” asked Noisey’s Tania Peralta early last year. Ahead of last Friday’s release of debut album INDIGO, Toronto’s Tommy Paxton-Beesley m...

On May 6, the New York Philharmonic performed two serious seventh symphonies: Beethoven’s boisterous A (op. 92) and Sibelius’ programmatic C (op. 105). The evening was capped with shorter-length works from ...

Three years later, more than 100 critiques penned, and more edited, a founding B-Sider reflects on what compels her to write what she does. Critics -- especially art critics -- get a bad rap. They dabble (or...

In February, dream pop machine M83 put out a public call for a new touring keyboardist in light of Morgan Kibby’s departure from the group. A month later, a news release announced seventh LP Junk and the addi...

Since 2010’s success with sophomore record Odd Blood, Yeasayer have been denounced as consistently underwhelming. Even then, between the trio’s first two albums, there stood a path of thorny critics calling...

Sometime between Our Nature (2013) and "Lovers Wake," dream pop outfit Savoir Adore were put on hiatus by the media. Though we were unaware of the news then, it was shortly after their critically-acclaimed soph...

Hip hop producer RJD2 (real name Ramble Jon Krohn) attributes Philadelphia with the “context for a lot of soul music that had liked” and having “the same musical vocabulary” for deeper connections ...

Months after the release of Progress (2015), Maya Postepski releases a trio of outtakes from her sophomore album in EP form. Rendezvous, out May 25 via Paper Bag Records, is "comprised of tracks that are a ...