Montreal Rocks

Palehound has announced a fifth album, You Sing Like You’re Joking, out 5 February 2027 on Polyvinyl Record Co. The project of New York songwriter and guitarist El Kempner has also shared the first single, Natural Disasters, with a video directed by Rachel Brown of Water From Your Eyes. It follows Eye on the Bat...

Toronto heavy music and arts festival Prepare the Ground has added 11 artists to its 2027 lineup, including Zola Jesus, Deadguy, Author & Punisher and Today Is the Day. The fourth edition runs from 4 to 6 June 2027. The festival says three-day passes are more than half gone, and the

The stage was square, with VIP sections on two opposite sides and the crowd packed in front, and the curtains were drawn all the way around it. 2120 stood behind them in their suits and could not see a thing. They could hear plenty. “They were loud,” the band says of its first full house in Paris. “Some people chanting ‘2120’, we couldn’t believe it. Cyri...

Montreal progressive extreme metal band Meridian Veil have announced their debut album, Forgotten Sun, out 22 January 2027 on Season of Mist. The band is

Rody Walker has a lot of jobs. By my count there are at least five: Juno-winning singer of Protest the Hero, Instagram fitness influencer, delinquent Twitch streamer, long-suffering Toronto Maple Leafs fan and Little League baseball coach. So which one is he here to promote? “My Little League baseball coach career,” he says. “Rangers went undefeated last ...