Arbutus When Montreal's Majical Cloudz recently signed with indie heavyweights Matador Records, frontman Devon Welsh found a distinct perk to sharing a label with some of his favourite artists. "I got to go through their warehouse and I got to take a bunch of records," Welsh tells Spinner. "It was cool because it was a lot of things that I ...

Haley Jane Samuelson Last October guitarist Amy Klein left New Jersey rock band Titus Andronicus not because of any blowout or disagreements, but simply because it was time for Klein to move on. Klein now plays in two bands, Leda and Hilly Eye, but for the past year, her new priority has clearly been the latter. "I left Titus in October ...

Cherry Tree Jessie Ware's debut album Devotion made a big splash in the U.K. last year, garnering her a number of Brit Award nominations as well as a Mercury Prize nod. Across the pond, though, America is still catching on to her infectious soul pop. Having just wrapped up a small, yet successful warm-up tour in North America, Ware is ...

Simone Cecchetti, Getty, AP, Metric Carly Rae Jepsen may be leading the Juno Awards pack with five nominations thanks to her hit single "Call Me Maybe," but fellow Juno nominee Louis-Jean Cormier from Karkwa definitely has no clue who she is. "I've never heard of Carly Rae Jepsen," Cormier tells Spinner. His band of Quebecois rockers -- ...

Teganandsara.com Tegan and Sara have written their fair share of love songs. Currently promoting their upcoming seventh full-length, Heartthrob, the Canadian twin sister duo have collectively penned a number of songs about the trials and tribulations when it comes to matters of the heart. But, as Tegan Quin admits, there was one kind of love ...

Alexisonfire Facebook Last August, Canadian post-hardcore darlings Alexisonfire called it quits. After two years of touring behind their fourth and final album, 2009's Old Crows/Young Cardinals, the band revealed in a blog post on their website that singer Dallas Green had left the band to continue his solo career as City and Colour and that ...

Tegan and Sara Facebook The word "heartthrob" immediately conjures up images of nostalgic boy bands from decades past and adolescent obsessions over the latest rising star actors sporting mushroom haircuts. Rarely do we think of female stars when that word gets thrown around. This was just one of the myriad reasons why Tegan Quin of ...