Natalie Zina Walschots

Considering and reconsidering Feist's Polaris Prize win

While critics have often stated that French ambient metal/romancecore band Alcest's music is based on an internal or introspective journey, singer/founding member Neige recently shed some lig...

Les Voyages De L'Âme, the third full-length, studio album from French dream-spinners Alcest, is a beautiful journey, but a strange one. It leads the listener through a surreal, romantic landscape. Alcest is difficult to pin down via genre conv...

Throughout their long and storied career, Alice in Chains have consistently straddled the border between multiple genres, appealing to multiple disparate fan bases while never wholly settling within rigid musical boundaries. Their sound's deep, groov...

Throughout their long and storied career, Alice in Chains have consistently straddled the border between multiple genres, appealing to multiple disparate fan bases while never wholly settling within rigid musical boundaries. Their sound's deep, groov...

The second record that Alice in Chains have released since their return to activity in 2005, The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is an evolution in concept and politics, if not a dramatic departure from their distinct style and execution. It is also ...

David Dacks explores Funkadelic's transformative time in Toronto

Why whittling down a Polaris Prize shortlist is

This death-tinted black metal band from Louisville, KY chose to name their band after the Greek theatrical concept of Anagnorisis, a critical moment of self-discovery when a character suddenly understands both themselves and their context. This is us...