JUNO, UK MVA, and Prism Prize-nominated Toronto producer and musical polymath Harrison has teamed up with saxophonist Jaleel Shaw (best known for performing with the likes of Robert Glasper, Nate Smith, etc.) for his new, whimsical single, “You hate Jazz?”.  This single is the follow-up to Harrison’s last collaboration with Shaw, “Feels Like Yesterday.”  Harrison’s last album, Birds, Bees, The Clouds & The Trees, was his second JUNO-nominated album. “I knew I wanted to just make what I thought was cool, regardless of it being cheesy,” he says of the piano-centred compositions, which he worked on in his Toronto studio....

Amy Millan’s anticipated new solo album I Went To Find You–her first in over 15 years–arrived today via Last Gang Records. Co-written and produced by Jay McCarrol (award-winning musician/composer known for the critically acclaimed 2023 film BlackBerry and 2025 SXSW standout Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie), engineered by Jace Lasek (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wolf Parade), mixed in part by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), recorded at Lost River (an idyllic studio deep in the Laurentian forest), the album has been earning praise and support from NPR Music, Paste, Bandcamp Daily (‘New & Notable’), Brooklyn Vegan (‘Influences’ feature),...

Today, Yeasayer co-founder Anand Wilder releases new single “Appointment in Samarra”, his first solo release since a 2023 ambient album and the followup to his 2022 solo debut I Don’t Know My Words. Opening with the sounds of a harmonium and a flute, the track uses an inevitable confrontation with death as a metaphor for music industry dynamics – “hanging on for dear life” amidst the trials and tribulations of being an artist in today’s landscape. The song also arrives with a kaleidoscopic music video directed by Jordan Fish (MGMT, Chairlift) that was featured at BrooklynVegan who called it “as...

Today, New York-based musician Maia Friedman releases her new album Goodbye Long Winter Shadow via Last Gang Records.  Goodbye Long Winter Shadow is immaculately balanced. From the first moments of the album, layers of strings, woodwinds, acoustic guitar and Friedman’s warm anchoring voice blossom as if to say “you are here.” Its lush arrangements and sage lyricism are an enveloping statement of intent. They carry the devotion to nature Friedman fostered growing up in California’s Sierra Nevada with a new mother’s exploration of time and transformation.  Order "Goodbye Long Winter Shadow" on Vinyl To begin writing Goodbye Long Winter Shadow,...

Amy Millan today shared her graceful, reflective new single “The overpass,” the third and final early preview of her forthcoming solo album I Went To Find You. “When I was 22, my first boyfriend’s mom died. It was a shock, it happened fast. The night of her funeral, a group of us went over the Bloor viaduct in Toronto and a couple of us got on the ledge and walked across what could have been a deathly end. There was no protection from falling off and below is a hundred feet directly onto the highway. It was famous for suicides...