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 […]
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.
Two venues, two provinces, four decades of Canadian rock, Les Foufounes Électriques against The Horseshoe Tavern. Who carries more weight, who bled more, and why El Mocambo plays a different game.
From Hanna, Alberta to Burlington, Ontario, the bands that turned Canadian radio into a flannel-and-distortion factory between 1994 and 2007, and what the critics did to them on the way out. By the mid-1990s Canada had a Bryan Adams problem and a Tragically Hip problem, too much success funneled into two national lanes, with little [&he
