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  • Alt-Country Outfit Gregory Childs and Heart Lung Make a Powerful Musical Plea “From the Chest” 

    They take you back to the good old days of the grunge/alt rock movements though they have a distinct identity.” – Lazy Indie Magazine “Country outlaw with an alternative tinge.” – Drop Out Entertainment Indie Quintet Releases Emotionally Raw New Single Following Debut EP “From The Chest” YouTube and Spotify Website Traditional-leaning country and folk music often dances…

  • Cuban Music Innovator Umbe B Captivates Listeners With Chilling Storytelling In Cut-Throat “Confiesale” 

    Cuban Music Innovator Umbe B Captivates Listeners With Chilling Storytelling In Cut-Throat “Confiesale”  “Confiesale” YouTube and Spotify Instagram and TikTok An all too familiar tale, Umbe B delivers a fiery retelling of a toxic love triangle, battling with internal impulses while trying to act with self-preservation. Dramatic storytelling is paired perfectly with hard-hitting string swells and perfectly timed breakdowns to…

  • CHRIS ANTONIK Caps 2022 With “Learning To Love You” From #1 Roots Music Report’s MORNINGSTAR Album

    “Learning To Love You” YouTube and Spotify Website On his newest single, “Learning to Love You,” Canadian blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and 3x-Maple Blues Award-nominee Chris Antonik. Known as the Canadian Gary Clark Jr., Antonik wrote the song as a love letter to his partner, Juno award-nominated jazz musician Alison Young, with a nod to Derek and the Dominos’…

  • Dark-Folk Luminaries Broken Wolves Mourn Lost Dreams On “The Summons”

    “The Summons” YouTube and Spotify Bandcamp Every generation has had to deal with their share of existential threats, and the members of Broken Wolves are no different. With his Toronto-based dark-folk act Broken Wolves, lead singer and guitarist Lennox Campbell-Berzins grapples with the looming threat of climate change and channels his anxieties onto their Medieval-inspired new single “The Summons.”…

  • THE OTHERNESS SAYS “WE CAN BE ONE” WITH DREAMY NEW SINGLE

    “We Can Be One” YouTube and Spotify Website The Otherness, a 4-piece Argentine band now based in Berlin, provides the listener with a cool, catchy mix of joy and provocation. The group, which has a new video out for their single “We Can Be One,” consists of Martin Cativa (guitar, vocals), Gonzalo Cativa (bass, vocals) Pablo Gaggioni (drums)…

  • Fat Mike of NOFX Launches New Fat Wreck Chords Label ImprintBOTTLES TO THE GROUND 

    Announces First Three Signings CODEFENDANTS, THE MEFFS and MELVINATOR Right on the heels of the exoneration of his new band Codefendants, notorious punk rock legend Fat Mike announces the launch of a new record label, Bottles To The Ground. This label will be a halfway house for Codefendants, and a home for British punk duo The Meffs, NOFX’s Eric Melvin’s EDM project Melvinator, and others.Fat…

  • The Tenors @ Roy Thompson Hall-Fri., Dec. 23rd, 2022

    By Steph C. Toronto turned into a winter wonderland after a huge snowstorm and it also set a beautiful backdrop to a dreamy white Christmas. What better way to bring in the holidays than a magnificent performance, A Season of Miracles, by The Tenors at the Roy Thomson Hall. These four incredible vocalists; Victor Micallef,…

  • Country Artist Lynne Taylor Donovan Offers Special Holiday Wishes with “Dear Santa”

    “Dear Santa” YouTube and Spotify Website More toys? More tech? Not so fast, sings a voice of reason. Lynne Taylor Donovan’s stirring old-school alto delivers a potent—and perennial—holiday message in “Dear Santa.” Adult contemporary- as well as country-friendly, the ultra-listenable track lends itself to multiple playlists and diverse formats. The timely lyrics by Tony Koenen offer both an…

  • PUNK ROCK FACTORY Drop Video For Cover of ‘Rewrite The Stars’; Announce New Album ‘It’s Just A Stage We’re Going Through’

    Punk Rock Factory Announce New Album ‘IT’S JUST A STAGE WE’RE GOING THROUGH’Set For Release on March 31st. Pre-Order HEREDrop Brand New Single/Video For Cover Of The Greatest Showman’s‘REWRITE THE STARS’ Watch HEREAnnounce New UK Headline Tour For Oct/Nov 2023Following An AcrossThe Board Sell Out Of Feb/Mar Dates High octane, pop punk powerhouses PUNK ROCK FACTORY are the kings of turning any song…

  • Moore Ave’s Cover Of Sublime’s “Santeria” Out Now

    “Santeria” YouTube and Spotify Website It’s difficult to make a cover sound like a unique production that does justice to its origins, but Moore Ave have done just that with “Santeria.” The 1997 Sublime hit has transcended generations and continued as a valuable tune in the cultural zeitgeist. Aylmer, Ontario’s Moore Ave put their own indie punk spin…

  • Folk Artist Carla Muller Crystallizes The Meditative Beauty Of A Snowstorm In “Snow Came Falling” 

    “Snow Came Falling” YouTube and Spotify Website Canadian folk artist Carla Muller captures the peaceful beauty of gently falling snow with the soothing, hypnotic holiday single “Snow Came Falling” – available now. Inspired by a snow storm the night of her daughter’s birth, it’s a meditative song of gratitude that reminds us to count our blessings this holiday…

  • Artist Jaylen Bradley Captures the Acute Pain of Being Burned Twice In Love with Introspective “Games”

    “Games” YouTube and Spotify Instagram and TikTok The absolute worst in matters of the heart is when you tell someone about relationship pain you’ve experienced, and they end up doing the exactsame thing to you. That’s what Jaylen Bradley’s new single “Games” – available now – is all about, and it’s bound to resonate deeply with anyone who’s been burned twice.…

  • Moore Ave’s Cover Of Sublime’s “Santeria” Out Now

    “Santeria” YouTube and Spotify Website It’s difficult to make a cover sound like a unique production that does justice to its origins, but Moore Ave have done just that with “Santeria.” The 1997 Sublime hit has transcended generations and continued as a valuable tune in the cultural zeitgeist. Aylmer, Ontario’s Moore Ave put their own indie punk spin…

  • Jazz Flutist Marie-Véronique Bourque Captures Endless Winter Snow with Holiday Song “The Shovel Shuffle” 

    MP3, WAV, Photos, Bio and All Assets Here “The Shovel Shuffle” YouTube and Spotify Website There’s a satisfaction in shoveling snow, a certain athleticism, a nuanced choreography to it all. Who are we kidding – shoveling snow is the worst! But if you live in Canada, it’s a necessity, and jazz flutist Marie-Véronique Bourque and her band are here…

  • JUNO Award Winner / Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame Inductee Shirley Eikhard Passes Away At Age 67

    Shirley Eikhard, writer of the Grammy-Award winning “Something To Talk About” as well as a two-time JUNO and multi-BMI Award winner and inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame, had died. She passed away at the Orangeville Hospital surrounded by wonderfully caring staff and dear friends at age 67. Born in Sackville, New Brunswick,…

  • Blue Mountain, ON-Based Pianist and Singer Heather Hill Releases Inspirational “I Rise”

    MP3, WAV, Photos, Bio and All Assets Here “I Rise” YouTube and Spotify Website Sometimes we can feel the inspiration of an artist through their music. Singer-songwriter Heather Hill takes listeners on a journey through her inspirations of the naturally beautiful Blue Mountains in her latest single “I Rise.”  Hill’s new single is a stirring piano melody mixed with…

  • Lemmon Entertainment Releases Holiday Mixtape To Benefit School Music Programs via MusiCounts Band Aid Program

    Support the future of music this holiday season!  Own Holiday Tracks from Jessica Moskaluke,  Myles Goodwyn,  Chris Hadfield, Olivia Penalva, And More  Lemmon Entertainment is releasing the Lemmon Holiday Mixtape – available now – featuring a wide variety of Canadian artists spreading Holiday cheer for an excellent cause. 100 percent of the mixtape’s proceeds will go…

  • Singer-Songwriter Sharron Katz Releases “Santa Soulmate” Just In Time For The Holidays

    “Santa Soulmate” YouTube and Spotify Website Canadian through and through, Sharron Katz’s gentle soulful storytelling gives us an original special holiday song ‘Santa Soulmate.’ Arriving now, the single shows Katz’s ability to deliver truthful emotion straight from the heart without any frills. Throughout the track, there is Alanis Morrisette style-storytelling present with a foundation of roots, blues, and…

  • Ottawa Group Of The Year EVIL CREEK Releases “Lovely” From New ‘Away From The Sun’ EP

    “Lovely” YouTube and Spotify Website Evil Creek, winner of Music Group of the Year Award at this year’s Ottawa Awards, have blasted onto your rock radar with their new EP, Away from the Sun, with the indignant single, “Lovely,” characterizing the wistful longing, plaguing doubts, profound loneliness, and tender reminiscence we all experienced during the pandemic.  “As we all got…

  • MDMP’s “I Can’t Hold You Closer” Grapples Relationship Status in a Pop-Punk Dreamland

    MDMP’s “I Can’t Hold You Closer” Grapples Relationship Status in a Pop-Punk Dreamland “I Can’t Hold You Closer” YouTube and Spotify Website MDMP’s, new single, “I Can’t Hold You Closer,” fuses hyper pop, dark pop, alternative rock and pop punk in a three-and-a-half-minute commentary on a relationship with unclear status. This single release comes a year after MDMP’s…