Gonzales Facebook Chilly Gonzales' ego is pretty satisfied nowadays. Having spent over a decade pounding away at the piano and collaborating with everyone from Feist to Drake to Jane Birkin, the Canadian-born entertainer used to always feel the need to over-perform and sell his music. "The first few years was pretty much Chilly Gonzales ...

Dan Mangan Facebook It might feel a little early in Vancouver singer-songwriter Dan Mangan's nine-year career to release a confessional documentary, but he assures us that he never went into the process expecting to make a film. "We took all this footage from it and just though that maybe we could put it into something," Mangan tells ...

Sweet Valley Facebook Sweet Valley is as much a musical project for Wavves frontman Nathan Williams and his younger brother Kynan as it is a living arrangement. Having spent the past four years crunching out punk-pop earworms in his main act, Nathan was looking to expand his musical horizons and after attending a show his brother put on, ...

Universal Republic Gotye's Wally De Backer admittedly has written no new songs since releasing last year's Making Mirrors. This isn't the singer-songwriter coasting on the success of his hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know," though. De Backer is, simply, not a very prolific writer. "I just don't write very much," De Backer tells ...

Chilly Gonzales Facebook Unlike that other noted ivory tickler Billy Joel, nobody's asking Chilly Gonzales to sing them a song. For this piano man, all they need him to do is play. And if you're the right person -- he'll wait forever to play for you. The self-proclaimed all-round "entertainist" is not only hot off the heels of a new album, ...

Dustin Rabin, Polaris Music Prize Leslie Feist won the $30,000 Polaris Music Prize last night for her fourth album, Metals, and no one was more stunned by the news than the artist herself. Upon hearing the announcement that she had won, Feist crawled under the table at the gala event, which took place at Toronto's Masonic Temple, almost ...

Purity Ring Facebook The last night of Pop Montreal saw its fair share of big shows, from indie stars Grizzly Bear to Patrick Wolf's special stripped-down performance. But the night marked the end of the festival and the end of a tour for Canadian duo, Purity Ring. Having toured extensively for the past month to support their debut album ...