Author Joanna Jiang

There are nights when the openers steal the show, but Saturday was not one of them. A loose pack at The Chapel transformed into a rowdy dance floor when LA-based husband-wife electro-psycho-"ACID" duo Pe...

TORONTO, ON* -- She speaks low and softly into the lipstick-stained mic, cherry red from her own makeup, "This song is about decapitating your lover in their city." A burst of awkward chuckles resonate arou...

Preceded by an eerie teaser trailer and its two lead singles, “All White Everything” and “Dean & Me,” V is classic JJ with a few surprises in tow. The fifth numerical release and third studio al...

On August 5th via Tricycle Records, Nathan and Zach Blaustone offer their debut work as BLAUS, a self-proclaimed “Booty House” duo. The brothers, based in San Francisco, “merge live instrumentation wi...

“Immunity (2013) is a masterpiece,” my friend and TIME Festival companion told me. We’re standing in a heavy rain waiting for Jon Hopkins; the unfortunate weather didn't deter the growing crowd gather...

PS I Love You’s third album, For Those Who Stay, out July 22nd via Paper Bag Records, will certainly warrant the Canadian indie rock duo yet another Polaris Prize nomination. Fronted by multi-instrume...

UK-based, DJ-turned-songwriter Fin Greenall’s orchestral folk trio, Fink, is the Django Unchained of their genre, rooted in a Southwest image of covered wagons and rolling tumbleweed but still progress...

Under the moniker Young & Sick, LA’s beloved album artist and fashion designer Nick Van Hofwegen’s own musical career has had a smooth liftoff. Three years in the making, Young & Sick boasts a spa...

TORONTO, ON*--If you ever wondered what your favorite pop punk band would sound grown up, look no further. Royal Tusk are two parts members of the (now-defunct) band Ten Second Epic, supplemented by a weathe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS9bjj5-gxY&feature=youtu.be Punk rock shows and disco parties are a blast, but, if you’re anything like us, it’s everything else that keeps you from losing yourself in ...

TORONTO, ON* -- The audience was primarily European, or so a girl from Berlin said to me Thursday evening at The Drake Underground. She laughed knowingly. “It’s the Klingande crowd.” And she was right. ...

Arriving two years after their 2012 EP, Undersea, The Antlers’ nine-track Familiars washes open with lead single “Palace,” a soft piano ballad. With its subdued tones and relaxed hi-hat beat, this in...

TORONTO, ON* – Thursday night, we swung down to Adelaide Hall, one of Toronto’s newer music venues, for a Red Bull Sound Select night. Situated cozily between a more established bar and a newer country sa...

Had Echo and the Bunnymen not split for six years in the 90s, they might today possess the same immortal status as Irish greats U2. With their psychedelic, New Wave tint, the prog-rock veterans have more or l...

photo by Joanna Chattman; courtesy of Sacks & Co. Having grown up among the lo-fi-est of the lo-fi, Brooklyn-native Kris Delmhorst ventured away from the great big city for more pastoral Massachusetts and...