Amy Millan & Martha Wainwright • Calling All Angels • 2026

 

“When I moved to Montreal as a young student with my first guitar, being in the orbit of the loft parties and folk houses is where I first heard Martha and her distinct, powerful and now iconic voice,” says Amy. “Grateful to call her a dear friend, I always wanted to find a way for us to sing together. This Canadian gem of a song by the great Jane Siberry (originally sung with k.d lang) was the perfect beginning for us to get this gentle chance to convene with angels.” EyoQBlfpYeJ

sundayclub • Sad Summer • 2026

Winnipeg dream-pop outfit sundayclub unpack the emotions tied to the warmer months on "Sad Summer", a wistful anthem about the struggle to live in the moment. bestfit

“...dramatically twinkling” - Exclaim!  “Camera Shy”

 

“With its swirl of warm synths and guitars, Camera Shy gently reminds us to just put down our devices and bask in the glow of the moment instead” - CBC MUSIC

 

“[‘Camera Shy’ is] bringing in the shoegaze vibes…with a ‘90s rock sparkle”  

- Guitar World (Editor's Picks) 

“Courtney Carmichael and Nikki St. Pierre’s forthcoming self-titled debut revels in the chaos of youth” - FLOOD 

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ifitbeyourwill Podcast #180 • Charlotte Cornfield

For Canadians who came of age somewhere along the Montréal–Toronto corridor, Charlotte Cornfield’s music carries a particular resonance. On this episode of ifitbeyourwill, the Toronto songwriter reflects on the cities that shaped her, the Plateau music scene that made a life in music feel possible, and the long road from jazz drums at Concordia to releasing Hurts Like Hell on the legendary Merge Records.

What unfolds is a conversation about creative practice, parenthood, community, and the strange act of looking back at your younger self with equal parts tenderness and humour. Charlotte discusses recording the album live off the floor with a hand-picked band, collaborating with artists she deeply admires, and finding new freedom in songwriting by letting go of the need to always be the narrator of her own stories.

Part music conversation, part Canadian cultural geography, this is a thoughtful look at how places, people, and time shape the songs we carry with us long after they've been written.

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The title track leans into that looseness. Mid-tempo, nothing pushed, guitars sitting just above a whisper. Then the vocal climbs, not dramatically, just enough to tighten everything around it. It changes the weight of the song without changing the volume. The harmonies follow, brushing up against the lead rather than stacking neatly behind it, like they’re part of the same thought instead of decoration. montreal rocks

Kiwi Jr. • "Blowin' Up” • 2026

 

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Canadian four-piece Kiwi Jr. have announced a new album, Blowin’ Up, and shared its title track via a music video. The album is due out August 14 on K Records / Perennial / Kiwi Club. Watch the Ben Rayner-directed “Blowin’ Up” video below, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover artwork.

Kiwi Jr. is Brohan Moore, Jeremy Gaudet, Brian Murphy, and Mike Walker. They recorded the album at High Bias studios in Detroit Michigan with Graham Walsh. Guests on the album include Joe Casey and Greg Ahee of Protomartyr, Margaux Bouchaudon of En Attendant Ana, and Kerri Maclellan of Alvvays. underTRMag

Darren Hayman • January Songs • 2011

My name is Darren Hayman. During January 2011 I wrote and recorded and released a video for every day of the month. I also kept a video diary and made a video for each song. Collaborators included The Wave Pictures, Allo Darlin, Terry Edwards and many more.

There are plans to make a deluxe physical release at some point too. 

GVTH DVDDY • Who Knows How It Ends ? • 2026

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Jaco Jaco • Wager • 2026

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I bet the world and kept the wager

Don’t like to see you so sad

No column in the hall of fame

I only played the game

I wonder if we’ll find each other

Through those wings with eyes

Trapped in a phosphor almond glow

Where grass don’t grow

Its okay if what is right for me is wrong for you

Did it ever occur to you to try out something new?

DOUBLE CURVE • Shame • 2026

Double Curve was formed in Montreal in 2024, when three friends and longtime collaborators from various underground projects finally decided to start a band together. With a straightforward, minimalist lineup — guitar, bass, and drums—the trio has developed a sound shaped by repetition, dynamic contrasts, noise, and melody.

Drawing inspiration from bands such as Sonic Youth, Fugazi, The Wedding Present, the Pixies, and Sebadoh, Double Curve navigates between feverish energy and hypnotic momentum, balancing abrasive textures with underlying melodies. Their songs are built around intertwining guitars, driving bass lines, and rhythms that oscillate between restraint and intensity.

 

“Shame” was the first song Double Curve played together. It began with a simple guitar intro built around harmonics. It was an old idea that felt mysterious and atmospheric, but it gradually evolved into something more urgent, melodic, and catchy.

Hayman, Watkins, Trout And Lee • 2008/2026

Darren's bluegrass project with David Tattersall (The Wave Pictures), David Watkins and Dan Mayfield (Owl & Mouse / Field Glass) reissued with two extra songs!

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"From the first jangle of banjo, its sentimental heart beats strongly and beautifully. Whimsy only rears its head on Jam-Eater Blues, but elsewhere a soft melancholy prevails, cut from the same sentimental cloth as the songs of the Proclaimers and the Beautiful South. Mesmerising observations emerge, too - 4/5." - THE GUARDIAN

Hefner • The Fidelity Wars • 2008

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Girls, they permeate Hefner’s songs like cheap perfume. Girls with cigarettes, lounging in unmade beds. Girls who drink whiskey. Girls who never, ever love the way that they are loved. Like Arab Strap, Hefner reside in the realm of the disastrous relationship, exhuming the sweaty, thoughtless bodies of past lovers, recounting tales of fumbled courtships with a draughtsman’s eye for detail. NME

Westside Cowboy • Kick Stones (The Boys) | Later... with Jools Holland • 2026

Kick stones and the cars shoot past

You know you got a face like a bullet when you talk like that

Pull my shirt and the cheap stitch cracks

How do you like that? How do you like that?

And the rain sounds like bells, the plastic covered cars swim totally fine

Have you heard that thе boys are gone this time?

Kick stonеs and the cars shoot past

You know you got a face like a bullet when you talk like that

Pull my shirt and the cheap stitch cracks

How do you like that? How do you like that?

And the rain sounds like bells, the plastic covered cars swim totally fine

Have you heard that the boys are gone this time?

ifitbeyourwill Podcast #179 • Evan Redsky

Evan Redsky grew up on Mississaugi First Nation, on the north shore of Lake Huron, between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury — a small community of maybe 500 people, and a history much larger than that. Four generations of his family attended the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School. His great-grandfather James was the last elder to hold their community's birch bark scrolls before they were dispossessed by the Glenbow Museum. Redsky carries that lineage into everything: the punk fury of Indian Giver, and the quieter, harder work of his solo music — Canadiana-rooted folk that sits closer to Neil Young than Nashville, and closer to truth than either. His 2024 album The Language of Fishermen and the recent single "Red Dress," drawn from losses he witnessed working at a Toronto First Nations youth centre, are artifacts in the fullest sense — stories left behind for the next generation to find.

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"...an unfeigned country ballad about his indigenous bloodline and life on the reserve...an allusion to the residential-school system and its effects on his kin. Warm acoustic tones are cut with Redsky’s sandy drawl...a record showcasing a rugged sound that’s interspersed with whining lap steel and palatable twang.” - The Globe & Mail

“Though the songs' content is rooted in Redsky's Indigenous heritage, the sound is pure Americana, equal parts Springsteen and Petty…” - CBC

Widemouth • Gasoline • 2026

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Widemouth - No Gasoline (Urban Scandal)

The debut album from this Chicago band co-fronted by Mak Carnahan and Jamie Eder is an impressive set of evocative, intimate, dynamic indie rock that burrows into a tender intersection of slowcore, alt-country, and indie folk. With close friends Mak and Jamie delicately duetting throughout No Gasoline, there’s an emotional fragility and trusted closeness that poignantly pervades the record’s raw, heart-on-sleeve, coming-of-age sound. –AR

Knife In The Water • Plays More Than One And Others • 2026

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Bedhead, American Analog Set, and other Texans set into motion a Lone Star branch of a national movement led by Galaxie 500, Codeine, and Low that utilized negative space in sound and songwriting. AC

Mallory Hawk • Chinook • 2026

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Friendly Faces • Your Total is 666 / It's Your Lucky Day • 2026

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Rae Spoon • Assigned Country Singer At Birth • 2026

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Assigned Country Singer At Birth is Rae Spoon’s thirteenth solo album and marks twenty-five years since they came out as trans and their return to country music. It’s arguably not any safer than it was in the early 2000’s to be a transgender country singer, but there's no room for doubting their connection to it when you hear them sing.

Johanna Samuels • Sorry, Kid • 2026

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“Before making this record, I was feeling the furthest from myself that I ever had.” Reflecting on her forthcoming album Excelsior!, Johanna Samuels continues, “There was a lot of cognitive dissonance—wanting to pursue my music while also being able to feel good about who I am as a person. This record is a lot of me identifying what I don’t want to be.”

ifitbeyourwill Podcast #178 • Second Body

Montreal’s Second Body returns with up and coming release Gift Horse, a record born from curiosity, confidence, and the willingness to let songs become something unexpected. In this conversation, songwriter and former drummer Yann explores the leap from the back of the stage to the front, the creative freedom found in surrendering control, and the balancing act of music, family, and everyday life. We dive into songwriting as discovery, the vibrant Montreal music community, and why some of the best songs arrive when you simply keep showing up and listening.

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