Photo: Heather Saitz
Photo: Heather Saitz

Blessed's Circuitous Is an Unpredictable Art-Rock Odyssey

Slick and streamlined math rock sensibilities come alive on the Abbotsford quartet's latest.

by Leslie Ken Chu

By Melissa Brassard

From avant electronica to orchestral film scores and live reinterpretations of cult classics, VIFF Live is pushing cinema beyond the screen.

By Cam Delisle

The beloved Québec festival’s 58th edition belonged as much to its surprises as its marquee acts.

By Glenn Alderson

To celebrate the release of Nouveaux Langages, we asked the artists who helped shape her new double album to ask the questions.

By Sofia Dawson

Daughter From Hell finds the songstress twisting the knife deeper.

By Prabhjot Bains

Christopher Nolan’s adaptation succeeds less as a self-serious prestige epic and more as an unintentional, gloriously oversized B-movie.

By Sebastian Buzzalino

The Vernon quartet’s new album Rat Bastard is a fiercely alive mix of post-punk, dub, techno and basement-show energy.

By Kenna Clifford

Driven by the centuries-old sound of the shamisen, the Berlin-based quintet is deconstructing Japanese folk music and rebuilding it for new audiences around the world.

By Izzy Petraglia

The decade-spanning pop star held an immersive, phone-free experience for devout listeners to celebrate her new album, Music, Fashion, Film.

By Neil Jefferies

Alone Together finds the New York trio navigating grief, fatherhood and the uneasy distance between trust and suspicion.

By Sebastian Buzzalino

The Vancouver punk band bottle their chaotic live energy into a blistering black-and-white session filmed at Phony! Records.