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Forrest and Nevada Eaglespeaker have spent years writing songs about addiction and the work of recovery.
RaytheNihilist has decided to give his critics their flowers. The Saskatoon-based Kainai/Blackfoot hip-hop artist, whose name is Raistlin MorningOwl, is preparing to release FLWRS//4DaCritics on October 21, following two wins at this year's Saskatchewan Indigenous Music Awards.
“Getting people to actually listen.”
That's Bryce Fabian's answer when asked about the hardest part of building an independent music career in northern Alberta.
Boy Golden will release Best of Our Possible Lives (Deluxe) on Oct. 16 through Six Shooter Records, adding five recordings to the album released in February. T
Toronto-based baritone saxophonist and composer Shirantha Beddage will release his fourth album as a bandleader, Departures, on October 16 through Rhea Records, following a Toronto CD-release concert at Jazz Bistro on October 15.
Canadian singer-songwriter Loreena McKennitt returns to The Mask and Mirror this week with a four-disc Definitive Edition that combines a remaster of her 1994 album with unreleased concert material, archival interviews and new surround mixes.
SOCAN has named the Special Achievement Award recipients who will be honoured at the 2026 SOCAN Awards on Oct. 26 at REBEL in Toronto, with this year’s list spanning pop, hip-hop, songwriting and screen composition.
Ottawa’s Capital Music Awards will be held in Southam Hall at the National Arts Centre on Friday, Oct 9, 2026, with a 6 p.m. red carpet and an 8 p.m. ceremony.
Preston Pablo has released a new single, “Anything,” while setting Nov. 27 for the arrival of his next EP, All At Once. The Canadian pop singer released “Anything” on Oct. 2 through 31 East and Universal Music Canada, accompanied by a lyric video.
Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats released Peacemaker on Oct. 2 through Ishkōdé Records, with the 10-track album recorded and mixed at Jukasa Media Group in Ohsweken, Ont., and mastered in Toronto.
Canadian rock singer-songwriter Sass Jordan, the Juno-winning performer behind Tell Somebody and Racine and a longtime Canadian Idol judge, died Oct. 2, 2026, at 65.
Charlottetown rock band Gizmo released its debut full-length, All Your Worships, on Oct 2, 2026 through Victory Pool Records, moving into the record’s first week with an Atlantic Canadian tour beginning this week.
Angine de Poitrine are Khn de Poitrine and Klek de Poitrine, a two-person instrumental rock project from Saguenay, Quebec.
BreakOut West 2026 wraps in Victoria on Oct. 4 after several days of conference programming and three nights of artist showcases.
Toronto band Zeus is returning to the recordings that surrounded its first album for Lost & Found (The Say Us Archives), a 13-track collection arriving Oct 9, 2026 through Arts & Crafts.
Saint-Jérôme, Que., producer Roko Beats brings nine artists together on LEVELUP 4, the fourth project in a collaborative series he has used to track changes in his production and the artists he works with.
Angine de Poitrine left Toronto’s Massey Hall on Sept. 22 with both of Polaris’s major 2026 awards.
Music Day in Canada returns Saturday, Sept. 26, with more than 60 Canadian artists appearing at more than 20 events in 20 cities, but three years into the project, the national event is becoming increasingly local.
When David Suzuki was asked to choose music for an Australian radio program in the 1990s, he started with Beethoven.
Long before Colin James had eight JUNO Awards and multi-platinum record sales, he was a Saskatchewan teenager playing clubs he wasn't legally old enough to enter.
Cameron Whitcomb went into the 2026 Canadian Country Music Awards tied for the most nominations in the country. By the end of Saturday night, the Nanaimo-raised singer had won three of the ceremony’s biggest awards.
There was a moment when “Call Me Maybe” was simply a new song by a Canadian singer-songwriter.
The Banff International String Quartet Festival is expanding the traditional four-player chamber ensemble this September, pairing string music with dance, accordion, larger ensembles and orchestral arrangements.
Canadian country singer Robyn Ottolini has released her debut album, A Safe Place to Land, six years after “F-150” turned the Uxbridge, Ont., songwriter into a breakout country artist.
Ten years after The Tragically Hip crossed Canada on a tour that became a national goodbye, the music from those final weeks is being heard again.
Carly Rae Jepsen is returning to Broadway, this time as a songwriter.
Shania Twain is looking back to northern Ontario and the years before stadium tours, Diamond albums and international fame in a new cover story released Monday by ELLE Canada.
Calgary pop star Tate McRae is back in creative mode after back-to-back festival headlining sets in Montreal and Chicago sent listeners back to her catalogue.
Alberta-raised country singer-songwriter MacKenzie Porter is heading home later this month, bringing Thelma & James to Edmonton for what festival organizers are calling the duo’s first Alberta homecoming performance.
Ontario alternative pop-rock duo Little White Lies released “String Me Along” on October 2, a song that Katie Rose Campbell says grew out of a difficult U.S. tour and a change in how the band approaches its career