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The theme of the week may well be unexpected returns, with The Radio Dept. back in action and now Shojoskip – the self-proclaimed “Happy Band From Tokyo” – returning at the end of this month for their first show and recordings in over a decade, and doing it all casual-like as if it’s no big […]
While it’s not the “new album and world tour”-level announcement we’ve been waiting for, the news yesterday that The Radio Dept. would be making their return to the stage with an appearance at Pitchfork London this November was unexpected and welcome. They haven’t performed live since the Summer of 2018 to close out support of […]
Long-time followers of Minneapolis’ She’s Green – that’d include me – probably noticed that their recent sets supporting Chapterhouse between Slide Away appearances – including Toronto a couple weeks back – opened with a new song. That song – “Close Your Eyes” was just released as their new official single with accompanying video, as an […]
When RAY dropped a new standalone single in “Sagittarius” in the last days of 2025 I was quite excited, not just because it was another release in a busy year from the alt-idol group, but because it was an unexpected songwriting collaboration with Kurayamisaka, who themselves were capping a great and busy year, and it […]
You would think Skyless is a pretty distinctive name and also rather on the nose for a band with shoegazey/dreampoppy inclination but in fact there exist artists with that same name in both dance and hard rock genres and of course streaming services don’t disambiguate them so if you go looking, you’ll find some confusingly […]
I spent most of 2025 pretty high on Tokyo’s The Floatings and their debut album Flowering so it was kind of bittersweet when they pre-empted the big news of making my year-end list by announcing that singer re:caco was leaving the band. What I missed in that announcement was their promise of one more song […]
Vini Reilly’s 2023 interview with The Guardian has stayed with me in a way that not a lot of the entertainment media that I consume has. While it’s not unusual for artists to quietly withdraw from releasing new material as they get older, the details of The Durutti Column’s silence – specifically the stroke he […]
When we last checked in with Winnipeg’s sundayclub, they were gearing up for not one but two Toronto shows to build on the interest around their debut single “Bannatyne” and I was working out how to fit at least one of them in my schedule. As it turned out, both shows were canceled due to […]
I did my deep dive into the many vocalists of Tokyo Shoegazer last month because, as of the day of the release of their latest album Remains, they hadn’t released so much as an advance track, never mind a promotional video, for me to hang a lazy post on. Turns out that clip was running […]
The second Chapterhouse reunion officially kicked off last month in the UK and is currently on its North American leg, with the band set to perform their 1991 debut Whirlpool in its entirety tomorrow night in Toronto. I was there the last time they came around in October 2010 and while it was not formally […]
