Jennifer Castle

Dressed in a rumpled, Colombo-style raincoat, Dan Bejar celebrated his birthday at Webster Hall on Sunday night (10/4) -- the NYC stop on their fall tour -- with some of the crowd singing "Happy Birthday" to him...

UPDATE: And the winner is... Buffy Sainte-Marie's Power in the Blood. Canada's Polaris Music Prize, which is celebrating it's 10th anniversary, and is being given out tonight at the Carlu in Toronto right now (September 21)...

Canada's Polaris Prize has just announced it's 2015 Shortlist and these are the 10 records vying for it this year: Viet Cong - S/T Buffy Sainte-Marie - Power in the Blood The New Pornographers - Brill Bruisers Tobias Jesso Jr...

The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Patrick Watson, Absolutely Free, Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Braids, Tobias Jesso Jr an...

Destroyer hasn't released a full length since 2011's excellent Kaputt, but he's finally ready to do that this year. He'll release Poison Season, a double album, on August 28 via Merge in the US and Dead Oceans in the UK...

Kevin Morby put out his second solo album, Still Life, this year which is another fine showcase for his songwriting talent and his appealingly weathered voice...

Canadian folk singer Jennifer Castle released Pink City, the followup to her 2011 debut Castlemusic, this week (9/2) via No Quarter Records...

Lower Dens @ Chicago's the Riv, 10/1/2012 (more by Grant McAllister) Baltimore's Lower Dens went into new, motorik directions on their second album, Nootropics so it makes sense that tracks from the record might work well in the remix world...

Jennifer Castle at BV-SXSW 2012 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Last year, we profiled Canadian folk singer Jennifer Castle, who records music for Chad Vangalaaen's Flemish Eye label and contributed guest vocals to Fucked Up's David Comes To Life...

most , some shots In addition to hosting almost 100 bands on three stages for four days straight, BrooklynVegan's Hotel Vegan, located at Austin venues Hotel Vegas & Volstead Lounge, was a place where you could sip some complimentary HobNob Wines from noon-7pm each day...