Toronto

Thanks to Kieran Adams of DIANA for the heads up on Psychic Materials, the beautifully warm and poignant (and occasionally heartbreaking) new album from Toronto's Casey Mecija (formerly of Ohbijou). You can stream the whole record below — I'd start with the dreamily wistful "Palms Lose" or the goosebump-inducing "The Otherside of Concrete" — but you should really hit up her web

Thanks to Prince Innocence for the heads up on their Toronto homie Elliott Vincent Jones, and his shadowy, very hypnotic new synth-pop jam "Acapulco", taken from his debut record due in January 2016. Listen below, and catch Elliott opening for U.S. Girls (who put out one of the best albums of 2015) tonight in Toronto at Sneaky Dee's. Video by Deadfounded:

Toronto duo Prince Innocence drops the video for one our favorite tracks of 2015, taken from the group's forthcoming Easy Life EP. Directed by/starring Prince Innocence's own Talvi Faustmann in a possibly very haunted house:

Thanks to Silent Shout for the heads up on this wistful (but eminently danceable) new jam from Toronto's Maylee Todd. Watch the lovely video — directed by Fred Yurichuk, Jason Lutz, and Maylee herself + starring dancer Minae Omi — below, and download the track for free here.

Check out this amazing track off a split Toronto hardcore band Skingraft put out with Erebos. Their side of the split was recorded at Scatter Brain Sound, the studio owned and run by Matt Tomasi, drummer of Acid†Priest (and also my drummer and guitarist...

Toronto duo Josh McIntyre + Talvi Faustmann — aka Prince Innocence — is running things today over on our siriusXM show, starting at noon EST on channel 35 sirius XMU, and airing again tonight at midnight. Tune in and zone out to tracks from Vince Staples, Bicep, Jessy Lanza, and a whole lot more, including a few cool exclusive/unreleased things that you need to hear...

Coming off two absolutely mesmerizing performances here in TX a few weeks back, Toronto duo Prince Innocence officially drop their brooding, darkly sensual new single / come-down "Manic" (a song we already loved), taken from the group's forthcoming Easy Life EP ...

We're not typically into the concept of the "song teaser" as a general rule, but the masterfully executed "xamples" that Toronto pop star/enigma Allie X has been rolling out as a preview of her forthcoming debut record CollXtion are a decided, unequivocal exception...

Our introduction to the dark mysticism of twin sisters/former Austra members Sari + Romy Lightman -- aka Tasseomancy -- came from Montreal band TOPS' recommendation of the group's creepy retro-futuristic video for "Reality", a vaguely ominous, beautifully minimal new-age hymn...

Allie X's debut LP COLLXTION I is out this spring, and today the future pop star unveils the intense, dreamlike, Jérémie Saindon-directed video for her soaring single "Catch". This is how you do a .gif video: