Courtesy of Hooded Fang Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the notable acts at Guelph, Ontario's annual Hillside Festival (July 22-24). Few brand new bands manage the kind of instant connection with both fans and critics alike as Toronto indie collective ...

Courtney Lee Yip Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the notable acts at Guelph, Ontario's annual Hillside Festival (July 22-24). Though barely out of her teens, Montreal (by way of Toronto) singer-songwriter Charlotte Cornfield has already managed more ...

Lindsey Baker Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the finest acts at Toronto's North by Northeast festival (June 13-19). Either Samantha Savage Smith's parents bestowed the ideal handle upon the Calgary singer-songwriter at birth, or she's come up with a rather ...

Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the finest acts at Toronto's North by Northeast festival (June 13-19). Sometimes it seems like Toronto is so crammed with hardworking indie rock bands that it's hard for many of them to rise above the fray and get their music ...

M Ford Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the finest acts at Toronto's North by Northeast festival (June 13-19). After you've signed to Madonna's record label at age 15, where on earth do you go from there? For Vancouver singer-songwriter Louise Burns, it's ...

Yasmin Siddiqui Things have been quiet on the Stars front since the Canadian swoon-popsters released their fifth album, 'The Five Ghosts' (just long-listed yesterday for the Polaris Prize) last summer. But the quintet has been anything but idle in that time: singer-guitarist Amy Millan and bassist Evan Cranley welcomed their first child this ...

Courtesy of the Details Northern Exposure is Spinner's MP3 column highlighting the best in new Canadian music. This week we feature some of the finest acts at Toronto's North by Northeast festival (June 13-19). Most indie bands would kill for the kind of eyebrow-raising backstory Winnipeg quartet the Details boast in their bio -- turns ...