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Can't Get No

Lo-fi evocation of vintage garage-era stomp

Better

Just as it says: better

Birthmarks

As good as straightforward modern pop-rock gets

Mac DeMarco goes for Baroque in goofy new music video

Rock us, Amadeus.

'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Scorching post-rock maximalism.

The Week In Culture, September 15- September 22

Oh, the humanity

A.C. Newman's new single is one of the greatest of the summer

Moving into synth territory.

The Underwater Welder

Fatherhood brings its share of torments.

Gnarly Feistodon collaboration album goes digital

Feist goes metal...wait what?

2012 best music noms from the Great White North announced

No Canadian Katy Perrys here.

Germany Germany shows off Midas touch with dreamy cover

“A Real Hero” turned into a whimsical digital epic.

Total Dust

Ghostly lo-fi minimalism.

Richard Ford discusses new novel on The Colbert Report

Canada gets the American treatment.

Canada

You can’t go home again.

The Week in Culture, June 10-June 16

On your knees, knave

Shrines

Childlike imagery and skittery electrified beats.

Slings and Arrows may return!

So tweets one of its creators.

Destroyer prep for summer tour

Back on the road for one of CM's 2011 faves

Video of the Day: Cold Specks

Canadian doom-soul singer previews debut LP

Track of the Day: Purity Ring, “Obedear”

Early summertime jam for any mood

Critical Questions: Destroyer

Dan Bejar opens up.

Provincial

Weakerthans leader takes a break.

Memory Motel: Looking Back at Lightfoot Live

The Canadian troubadour captured live.

Take This Waltz

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl unravels.

Keyhole

A beguiling, beautiful film about ghosts, gangsters, and love.

UK’s Orange Prize nominees announced

The best in women's fiction.

Caribou announces tour dates with Radiohead

Dan Snaith hits the road

A Sleep and A Forgetting

A handful of heartbreak

Video of the Day: Grimes, “Oblivion”

What it’s like for a girl.

Destroyer announce tour dates

Bringing back one of CM's top 2011 albums.

Visions

Canadian experimentalist flirts with song structure.

Perspectives on women at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal

3 solo artists explore women’s identity.

Van Gogh in a new light

Zooming in on Van Gogh.

Slings and Arrows

A madcap and macabre comedy about life, death, and the… >>

Feel It Break

Elegantly-constructed electronic indie pop.

Metals

Frustratingly aimless follow-up to her unexpected hit.

Sound Kapital

Jetsetting couple remembers to pack the synthesizer.

George Sprott: (1894-1975)

A playful examination of an enigmatic man.

House of Balloons

A skillfully experimental underground debut.

It's All True

Elegant dance pop for the smart set.

Excerpts

It shouldn't all fit together, but it does.

The Weight’s On The Wheels

Lo-fi Canadian goes big, with inconsistent results.

Archer on the Beach

Dan Bejar explores ambient electronica.

Le Noise

Young at his most intimate and emotionally direct.

Wilderness Heart

Vancouver stoners put it all together.

The Suburbs

Canadian collective retreat from epic grandeur.

On the Floor of Heaven

Lost alt-country classic returns.

Expo 86

Montreal supergroup reconvenes, shifts direction.

The New Pornographers: Friends and Relations

Over the course of five albums including the new Together,… >>

Crystal Castles (II)

Surprisingly fun, tuneful follow-up to an abrasive debut.

No Singles

All bands should be having this much fun.

Together

Immediately engaging, richly varied pop songcraft.

Neko Case and her Canadian Friends

Neko Case was born in Virginia and raised in Tacoma,… >>

Critical Owen Pallett

Formerly known as the one-man-band Final Fantasy, Owen Pallett has… >>

Forgiveness Rock Record

This is more like it.

Swim

One foot on the dancefloor, one in the chill-out room.

Hunter, Hunter

Poetic flourishes, black humor and masterful, poker-faced irony

Heartland

Canadian wunderkind further expands his ambition.

Owen Pallett

Wunderkind behind some of indie rock’s best orchestrations.

I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day

Canadian singer-songwriter turns heartbreak into optimism

Mama Tevatron

Cult Canadian changes musical directions for the better.

Neko Case

A force of nature flowing effortlessly across genres.

Challengers

Power pop overachievers get serious.

The New Pornographers

Clever, tuneful pop masterminds.

David Cronenberg

A visionary director with a uniquely visceral approach to filmmaking.

John Southworth

Lyrically cinematic songs informed by a sincere love of old-fashioned… >>

Paul Quarrington

Canadian novelist and musician.

Destroyer

Dan Bejar's ever-shifting musical vision.

Leonard Cohen

Folk-rock's Canadian Poet Laureate.

Neil Young Archives Volume 1: 1963-1972

Neil Young

Willing to fail interestingly.