Brendan Canning

"I haven't played a strip club in 20 years," admitted Brendan Canning as he took the stage at Cafe Cleopatra which on most nights hosts burlesque but on Thursday (11/17) was home to one of two shows at the 2016 M for Montreal festival...

Jeen is the solo project of Jeen O'Brien of Cookie Duster, whose lineup also includes Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning. She's releasing a new album in December...

The 2016 edition of M for Montreal is coming up later this month (November 16 - 19) and the full lineup has been released and includes Spencer Krug’s Moonface, Baauer, Martha Wainwright, Elephant Stone, Nobunny, The Appleseed Cast, Leif Vollebekk, Tasseomancy and more.

A band with members of The National and Menomena, a solo album from a Broken Social Scene co-founder, a one-man doom project and more.

Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning is releasing his new solo album Home Wrecking Years next week (8/12) via Arts & Crafts. We already posted the lead single "Book It To Fresno" (which BSS have been playing live), and we're now premiering another song from the album, &q…

He recorded it with his help from his BSS bandmates Sam Goldberg and Justin Peroff, and Liam O'Neil of The Stills.

S. Carey at Highline Ballroom in 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield)

Bon Iver hasn't been too active lately, but Justin Vernon isn't the only one taking the time to focus on side projects...

Brendan Canning at Pop Montreal 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

As you may know, Broken Social Scene co-founder Brendan Canning was supposed to play a few US dates with Holly Miranda last week, and those unfortunately had to be cancelled due to visa iss...

Brendan Canning @ Pop Montreal 2013 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo)

The government's gears are grinding again, but there's still some fallout, apparently, in the Visa & Immigration department. Th...

Back before Montreal was in NYC for CMJ, NYC was in Montreal for the annual Pop Montreal festival which we began by seeing DIANA and Empress Of followed started a bit slower as the late nights started bleeding into early mornings and getting out of bed became harder and harder...