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(November 6) – Rich Aucoin releases new album Classical Tonto. Following up his twice Juno-nominated quadruple album Synthetic, Aucoin returned to Calgary and its National Music Centre where he recorded more than 160 synthesizers for that effort, which he debuted at Montreal’s Mutek Conference and which was covered in Exclaim!’s Staff Picks, Bandcamp Daily, Juno …

RICH AUCOIN RELEASES NEW ALBUM – CLASSICAL TONTO; SEVERAL WORLD-RENOWNED PIECES RECORDED ON ONE OF THE MOST HISTORIC SYNTHESIZERSRead More

Share first single, Criminal Against Nature (September 8) – Toronto’s Lammping is a project built on the idea that music can exist across timelines. Founded by Mikhail Galkin and Jay Anderson, the band’s sound draws equally from heavy psych rock, hip-hop, classic songwriting, and experimental collage, creating records that feel both familiar and impossible to …

Lammping return with So What, What?Read More

Originally released in 2000, Iron grew out of Pavlov’s teenage fascination with heavy metal and the underground record-exchanging community of the late Soviet era. At fourteen, inspired by Iron Maiden’s “Running Free,” he picked up a six-string guitar brought to him by his grandmother and decided that he and his friends could also play that …

COH to reissue ‘IRON’ via We Are Busy Bodies – Out on vinyl for the very first timeRead More

There is a particular quality to winter light in Northern Europe, fleeting, subdued, and transformative. On Winterglare, pianist and composer Volodja Brodsky captures that elusive atmosphere in a collection of intimate instrumental works that blur the line between composition, environment, and memory. Recorded entirely in his home, Winterglare marks the first album Brodsky shepherded from …

Volodja Brodsky finds solace in the everyday on Winterglare; shares Glare PreludeRead More

13-Part EP Series features an artist from each province and territory that when overlaid forms a map of the country Two years ago, We Are Busy Bodies began exploring the feasibility of developing and designing an intricate 13-part EP series. The idea was that when overlaid, it would form a map of Canada and allow …

We Are Busy Bodies Shares Map of Canada Puzzle Series including Joel Plaskett, PIQSIQ, and fanclubwalletRead More

Vancouver-based ambient artist and sonic wanderer Michael Scott Dawson will release two new full-length albums, Long Slow Distance and Kitsune No Yomeiri, on September 4, 2026 via We Are Busy Bodies. Existing as distinct points on a shared axis, the records arrive simultaneously yet inhabit entirely different emotional and sonic worlds. Kitsune No Yomeiri finds …

Michael Scott Dawson returns with two new albums; Long Slow Distance and kitsune no yomeiriRead More

There are more systems than ever dedicated to figuring out exactly what you want. Every click, scroll, pause, and impulse is harvested, refined, and fed back to you in an endless cycle of hyper-targeted desire fulfillment. On their third album, 3, Ann Arbor’s fling ii asks a simple question: what if you made something for …

fling ii return with new album, share first single, lauRead More

Husha Husha’s debut album, Here Come The Waterworks, is a heartfelt collection of cosmic lullabies, carefully crafted to soundtrack slow mornings, calm afternoons, restorative naps, and the sweetest of dreams. The album unfolds through gentle repetition and wandering melodies, woven together with curious, ethereal sounds. This is music by humans for humans, rich with delicate …

Husha Husha announces debut, shares two songs from Here Comes The WaterworksRead More

Jin Sonic is a collaboration between acclaimed Japanese ambient jazz guitarist Yutaka Hirasaka and Michael Scott Dawson. The two met up in Tokyo and over a gin discussed their teenage punk bands and a shared love of Jeff Parker. Upon returning home Dawson revisited their incomplete track that had been omitted from his The Tinnitus …

Michael Scott Dawson and Yutaka Hirasaka share Jin SonicRead More