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The duo perform at Fort York & the Bentway on Sunday afternoon before the final match between Spain and Argentina BY Megan LaPierrePublished Jul 17, 2026 Once again harnessing the alien magic that enables them to defy the laws of physics and be in two places at once (like the night they opened for Jack White at Toronto's RBC Amphitheatre before scooting across town to headline the Mod Club), Angine de Poitrine have now been announced as the headliners for the grand finale of Toronto's FIFA...

"Make me want to die." Rolling over the plodding bass guitar dirge that opens Tricky's 15th studio album like fog off a pond, the first line on Different When It's Silent belongs to a new boy from Bristol — or rather, it's voiced by one. As his stage name suggests, authorship has always been deeply muddied in Tricky's world.

The unthinkable is happening, because the Olivia Tremor Control have announced their first new album in 27 years. The Same Place is set to arrive October 23 via the Elephant 6 Recording Co, and you can find the full tracklist below. According to press materials, the record took nearly 20 years to make, and marks the band's third album after the release of cult favourite Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. 1 in 1999 before they broke up.

After speaking out about how "fucked up" those creepy Ray-Ban Meta AI Glasses are on stage at a festival (fittingly sponsored by Ray-Bans) in Madrid last week, Lorde has now voiced her disproval of Spotify's new AI-generated song descriptions.

BY Dylan BarnabePublished Jul 17, 2026 8 Following the Grammy Award-winning success of 2022'sGemini Rights, which spawned the chart-topping "Bad Habit," Steve Lacy returns with his latest album Oh yeah?— billed by press materials as "a record for guitar kids who love synths and synth kids who love guitars," and his "most personal art to date." Lacy's third album charts the realities of his inner world with the same lyrical candidness and genre-bending soundscapes listeners have come to expect...

Ottawa's inaugural Indie Week festival and conference is running November 12–14, and organizers have now opened the call for artist applications. Successful applicants will have the opportunity to perform live showcases, attend industry panels, network with industry professionals, and attend programming focused on artist development, music export, monetizing music, music promotion and syncs.

The air sucks and it's hotter than the tenth circle of hell out there — never has a summer demanded more that we stay indoors and put our streaming subscriptions to good use. Chow down on the final season of once-beloved dark comedy, and start a journey to New England's wannabe finest with an actually comedic dark comedy. Revel in Hannah Waddingham's assassin badassery, and then be completely won over by a flock of sheep who demand justice.

"This is not the time for requests. We're not a Top 40 band." Looking like a tattooed Mafia boss in a crisp white button‑down, dress slacks and slicked‑back hair, Social Distortion's Mike Ness announced to the crowd that the band's long‑awaited return to Ottawa would go down entirely on his own terms.

This week's new tours coming to Canada this year include an intimate Toronto date from Shania Twain taking place this evening, Charlotte Cornfield and Friendship's co-headlining trek, Thundercat's (pictured above) fall outing and more. As always, don't forget to check out Concert Central for more Canadian tour announcements, show listings, recommendations and live reviews.

BY Exclaim! StaffPublished Jul 17, 2026 They're called shitposts because sometimes they're about a diarrhea outbreak! In this week's roundup of music memes and entertainment shitposts, pop stars are coming for Peppa Pig, people are splitting a cab with Rashida Jones, and we've got definitive proof that Charli xcx is better than Messi.