Junior Boys

The Polaris Music Prize, Canada’s annual award for a great album, has announced its 2016 longlist.

Variance Festival also includes DJ sets from Awesome Tapes From Africa and Occupy the Disco, and live music from Oberhofer, Conrad Clifton and Yaeji.

This is the first installment of the new “Five Notable Releases of the Week” feature, where, as the title implies, I’ll be picking five releases that come out each week that I think are worth hearing…

The third episode of BrooklynVegan’s “In Residence” show on Spotify is now live. For this one, BV editors Bill Pearis, Andrew Sacher and site founder Dave play some singles off 2016 records they’re excited for, some Wolf Parade and LCD Soundsystem in anticipation their return, plus music and memories about David Bowie …

Junior Boys will release their new album Big Black Coat next week (2/5) via City Slang, and now they’re streaming the whole thing. Like the early singles (and past releases), it’s synth pop but with “synth” meaning heady dance music rather than the melodrama of the ’80s era or the bombast of the genre’s current popu…

Jessy Lanza is following her 2013 debut, Pull My Hair Back, with Oh No on May 13 via Hyperdub. Like that album, she recorded it with Jeremy Greenspan of Junio…

We already heard the title track off Junior Boys‘ fifth album Big Black Coat (due 2/5 via City Slang) and now they released another song from it, “Over…

Junior Boys are back with their fifth album, Big Black Coat which is the Canadian duo’s first in five years. It’s out February 5 via City Slang…

Jessy Lanza at Pop Montreal 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Ontario singer/producer Jessy Lanza released her debut album Pull My Hair Back via Hyperdub (Burial, Laurel Halo) earlier this year…

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