September 2023 Issue

Sweeping Promises Dread the Easy Life on 'Good Living Is Coming for You'
PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2023
When Sweeping Promises' Hunger for a Way Out dropped midway through 2020, it almost seemed as though the post-punk duo's debut had material...
Lucinda Williams's 'Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart' Are Tales to Live By
PUBLISHED Jun 28, 2023
Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, Lucinda Williams's latest, is just that — all heart. In 2020, at the age of 67, the legendary songwriter...
Graf Orlock Burn the Tapes on the Fiery 'End Credits'
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023
Though there are a few cinemagrind bands in existence, it's a rarefied genre ruled by Los Angeles sample forefathers Graf Orlock. Spot weld...
Militarie Gun's Aim Is True on 'Life Under the Gun'
PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2023
Militarie Gun has become one of the more intriguing punk bands in the last couple years, and it shouldn't come as a surprise. Frontperson a...
8 Emerging Canadian Artists You Need to Hear in June 2023
PUBLISHED Jun 16, 2023
This month's gaggle of New Faves are thrashers, crooners, party starters and quiet observers — they do it all, and they do it well. With a...
The Tragically Hip's Paul Langlois Announces New Album 'Guess What'
PUBLISHED May 16, 2023
The Paul Langlois Band, led by the Tragically Hip guitarist Paul Langlois, will release a new album, Guess What, via Pheromone Recordings /...
Canadian Guitarists Pick Their Favourite Riff of All Time
PUBLISHED Mar 14, 2023
"The very idea of the riff is the electric guitar's greatest contribution to humanity," says PUP guitarist Steve Sladkowski. Perhaps even...