Vancouver has always punched above its weight in rock, and in 2026 the city’s new guard is keeping the tradition alive. Beyond the festival stages of Khatsahlano and Music Waste, a fresh crop of guitar bands is doing the unglamorous work of building a following one club show at a time. Two of them are […]
Ask where new guitar rock is coming from in 2026 and the honest answer keeps pointing north. Norway and Sweden are quietly turning out a wave of young bands that pull from blues, stoner, classic and psych rock without sounding like a tribute act. None of them are arena names yet, but together they make […]
From SummerStage and Celebrate Brooklyn to Pier 17 and Hudson Yards, the 2026 summer rock and indie festival calendar across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
From Verboden in May to Khatsahlano in July, the Vancouver festival calendar for rock and indie in 2026.
Boston Calling is on hiatus in 2026, so ten other festivals stepped up. From BCMFest in January to Boston GreenFest in August, here are the dates, venues and TNR reads.
From the Francos in June to M for Montreal in November, ten festivals that define the city's 2026 music season, with dates, venues and headliners.
From Hotel2Tango to Studio PM, Montreal's producers, engineers and string arrangers quietly shaped some of alt rock's most influential albums, from Arcade Fire and The National to Sarah McLachlan and Frank Ocean.
After Sunday's race at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, the question that earlier in the week sounded rhetorical has its answer. The F1 after-parties in Montreal are real, sponsored, and built around music, not cars. We map the venues, the headliners, and the math that proves it.
Drive to Survive cracked the door open. The Brad Pitt F1 film kicked it off the hinges. By Monaco 2026, the paddock is a celebrity hub with a race attached and a booking platform for music.
The 2026 Canadian Grand Prix is one race, seventy laps, about two hours of motors. Around it Montreal opens four full days of live music across Crescent Street, the Port of Montreal, Jean-Drapeau and Square Phillips. We tally the stages and ask what is really the headline.
