Daily Newsletter, November 3, 2023

JERRY LEGER DONLANDS LATENT RECORDINGS They say that the Americana/roots genre is getting crowded. Quite possibly so, but that just gives the opportunity to those artists that should stand out with the quality of their music do exactly that. Toronto singer/songwriter Jerry Leger has been around for a while and has already shown that he […]

With ‘Are You There, Boy?’ Beharie has come up with one of the best debut albums of 2023.

ART BERGMANN SHADOWWALK WEEWERK Maybe Art Bergmann is not catching the headlines outside of Canada, but he should certainly be, particularly after his latest album ShadowWalk. While he describes himself as “anti-hero-iconoclast of Canadian music” he is — and should be — recognized as one of Canada’s greatest living singer/songwriters. It is due to his off the […]

An album of strings, songs and electronics by a quartet of Mexican women pulls you in with the sweetness of its arrangements before leading you into darker waters, finds Amanda Farah

Featuring Katie Von Schleicher, Kirin J Callinan, American Analog Set, OMD, Emma Anderson (Lush), Kurt Vile, Guided by Voices, and more of October's best stuff.

The deeper complexity and nuance that had lurked under the surface came to the forefront in the L.A. band's classic 1967 third album.

According to The Beatles biographer Mark Lewisohn, the 1960s really arrived on one day, October 5th, 1962, and it's a remarkable story.

Pere Ubu's 1978 esoteric art rock masterpiece The Modern Dance cleared the ground for much of the more adventurous music that's been recorded since

Get ready for shorter days and colder nights with new releases from Martha Wells, Patrick Rothfuss, Jim Butcher, Nnedi Okorafor, and more.

There are plenty of bigger things to be depressed about these days, but for a certain stripe of music fan, the recent Bandcamp news was a particular bummer. If you haven’t heard, the platform was sold to Songtradr, a B2B music licensing service, who promptly laid off a healthy chunk of the workforce. While the ultimate fate of Bandcamp remains unclear, the future looks bleak. What’s next? We’re not sure. But for the moment, we’ll continue sharing music via our Bandcamping column — especially as Bandcamp Fridays stay in place, offering artists a more-than-decent lifeline.

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