The Prairie Joggers — ‘The Prairie Joggers,’ 4/5
The Prairie Joggers make simple songs with complicated hearts. The Winnipeg duo’s chipper, dust-blown sound is reliant on dense lyricism and memorable melodies rather than…
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Ada Lea — ‘Woman, Here,’ 3.5/5
Ada Lea’s debut record, 2019’s What We Say in Private, was a prickly and elastic rock composition, built from bent folk guitars and an itching…
Music in the age of coronavirus
Cody Goertzen and Adam Hill are keeping busy while the world burns outside, attempting to make the most of this collective isolation. “We’re doing okay,”…
Sarah Harmer — ‘Are You Gone,’ 4/5
The world looks much different than it did the last time Sarah Harmer released a record. Ten years on from Oh Little Fire, Harmer returns…
Juniper Bush — ‘Healing Through a Sonic Figure,’ 4/5
The corrosive pink that colours Juniper Bush’s press photo is an accurate foretelling of the music the band creates. The acidic shade has a deep…
Basia Bulat — ‘Are You in Love?,’ 4.5/5
To hear Basia Bulat sing is to be reassured — each note feels like a friend’s hand on your knee, understanding and encouraging. Her music…
Cantor Dust — ‘Too Many Stars,’ 3.5/5
As life on Earth grows endlessly louder and hotter, it’s hardly a surprise that the vast quietude of the cosmos seems to beckon. There’s a…
SubCity Dwellers are getting back together for one weekend only
Johannes Lodewyks always knew SubCity Dwellers would find themselves back together — it was simply a question of when. “When we broke up eight years…
Ralph returns to the ’Peg as headliner
Raffaela Weyman, better known as the independent pop machine Ralph, described the scenery as she drove from Austin to Houston en route to the final…
Prairie singer-songwriter sets sights on horizon
Though he shares a name with his hometown, Siegs Corner, Cohen Sieg’s sights are set far beyond the fields of rural Manitoba. Sieg described himself…