Our definitive list returns! Featuring chart-topping albums, some returning veterans, and a few surprise upstarts. Join us as we count down the best albums of the year.

Comparisons to Radiohead are tricky. Sure, the British rock band has received almost universal acclaim, so who wouldn’t want to be like them? But Radiohead [...]

Feist’s voice was gorgeous as always at her stop in Seattle; Suzi Pratt shares photos from the show.

I can’t decide whether I like this album. On one end there’s the notion that Dan Mangan basically re-recorded Andrew Bird’s Noble Beast, but on [...]

One of the beautiful things about NXNE is that one can stick with big-name acts, or get adventurous and go find the lesser-known artists.

Torquil Campbell is back flooding listeners with spacey soundscapes and exuberant pop beats with his side project, Memphis. Partnering with friend Chris Dumont, the hazy [...]

The bastard love child of Vampire Weekend, the Go Team!, garage rock, and Kimya Dawson, Chikita Violenta is certainly all over the popular indie rock [...]

As an avid lover of the Pacific Northwest, I always shed a tear of joy onto my rain-soaked cheek whenever I see another Vancouver artist [...]

Like Lapidus on the “Lost” series finale, Broken Social Scene (under the guidance of founders Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning) wastes no time getting their [...]

The 2010 Sasquatch Music Festival is now in the bag, and now that the last notes of Ween’s epic closing set have floated back into the ether, I am here to fill you in. The weekend, which took place at The Gorge Ampitheatre in George, Washington, in was chock full of good, bad, and some truly ugly moments.

Quiet whispers and schoolyard chants, innocence and simplicity — simply beautiful, that is. This sweet menagerie of inspiring ballads found me at just the right [...]

Jason Collett has one topic he wants to cover on his newest album, Rat A Tat Tat. That topic is love — the good, the [...]

Has it really been almost two months since our last mix? Hey, give us a break. We’ve been busy. All this groundbreaking music coverage doesn’t write itself, you know. Plus, we had the holidays to contend with. Everyone’s busy around the holidays, right? Yeah, that’s a feasible excuse…

Formed in Toronto but, at various times, based in Montreal, London, New York and L.A., Metric boasts the sort of history that requires one of [...]

If she wanted to, Emily Haines of Metric could start an outright riot. I witnessed her come close to inciting a riot in March of 2004 at Nashville’s Exit/In, when Haines had so much command of the frenzied audience that she was able to pull us back from the edge.