Mike Tod is an Alberta musician, folk music scholar and ethnomusicologist. His self-titled three-track EP (released on November 26, 2021) includes a handful of traditional songs that showcase the enduring, remedial power of folk tunes […]
Steel & Timber started with a banjo, an acoustic guitar, and a summer evening jam in Calgary, Alberta. Founding members Nathan Harris-Thompson and Benjamin Rogalsky expected to play some covers, share some ideas, and enjoy […]
Starpainter exists in the neatly carved out spaces between rock and country and pop. They are distantly familiar, like a newly met cousin, but distinctly shiny and new. They wear their influences on their sleeves, […]
Carter Felker’s songwriting is the embodiment of simplicity. Like the hammer and the nail, the tongue and groove or the wheel and its roll, his stringent and punchy use of words alongside his outstanding fingerpicking […]
Doubling down on grit and authenticity, Mariel Buckley has planted her flag firmly as a songwriter who’s in it for the long haul. The polished glow of mainstream music holds no appeal for this emerging […]
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