• Ranking Polaris Prize Shortlist: Drake, New Pornographers and...Ghostface Killah?

    The Polaris Music Prize has announced its annual shortlist of ten albums up for Canada's biggest music prize, and this year's gathering includes new icons Drake, old favorites the New Pornographers and, uh, Ghostface Killah? More on that later. Come with Music Times as we rank each of the albums from "worst" (relative) to first in terms of how much each deserves the vaunted trophy.

  • Polaris Prize Short List 2015: Drake, New Pornographers & Alvvays Lead Pack

    After unveiling its long list last month, today (July 16) the 10 finalists for the 2015 Polaris Prize have been revealed. Celebrating the best in Canadian music on artistic merit along, this year's list is just as eclectic as one could have expected, with everyone from Drake to The New Pornographers to Alvvays and Tobias Jesso Jr. getting nominations.

  • Caribou's Daphni Moniker Shares Spacey Free Download 'Vikram'

    Dan Snaith, better known as Caribou, has unleashed his Daphni side project for a brand new free download titled "Vikram." The new tune fits with the spacey and more psychedelic side of Snaith's production with long and subtle builds that don't necessarily give a dramatic payoff, but rather leads the listener on a journey of different eclectic sounds.

  • Coachella 2015 Announces Sideshows Featuring Interpol, Belle and Sebastien, Madeon, Acton Bronson and more

    Just as most people go to a festival for the headliners and true fans stay for the rest of the lineup, most people just go to a festival and call it a day, while the party animals head out to the afters well into the morning. As a two-weekend festival, Coachella is known for the week of parties that take place around the two weekends, before it, during both weekends and in between them. The shows take place all across Los Angeles at venues like El Rey, The Glass House, The Roxy, Fonda, The Echo, Club Nokia and elsewhere. What has been dubbed by some as "Localchella," artists like FKA Twigs, Action Bronson, Madeon, Interpol, Belle & Sebastien and many others will be appearing at this year's sideshows.

  • Primavera Sound 2015 Announces Lineup, Featuring Alt-J, Sleater-Kinney, The Strokes, Many More

    The latest festival to announce its 2015 line-up is Primavera Sound, which is celebrating its 15th year. The line-up was originally announced through an app called Line-App, but if you don't feel like downloading that, you can just watch the video announcement below. As can be expected from Primavera Sound, this year's lineup is absolutely killer. Among the most notable acts performing this year are Alt-J, The Black Keys, Belle & Sebastian, The Strokes, Run The Jewels, Interpol, Sun Kil Moon, Spiritualized, Mac DeMarco, Patti Smith, Panda Bear, The New Pornographers, Caribou, Ariel Pink, Tyler, The Creator, Swans, Brand New, Twin Shadow, and many, many more.

  • 7 Solo Artists Who Have Performed Under Multiple Names

    As good as your music may be, one of the most important aspects of "making it" in the music business is simply getting your name out there, and making sure people remember it. These seven artists, however, decided to switch between multiple aliases, largely for artistic reasons, which probably makes organizing their albums in a record store a huge pain.

  • Caribou Assembles Massive 1,000-Song Mixtape To Thank Fans [LISTEN]

    Artists like to release mixes and mixtape with the music that they have been listening to or tracks that have influenced them as a way to broaden their fan's music tastes and give outsiders a perspective into the creative mind of that artist beyond their live show and productions. Caribou has assembled potentially the granddaddy of them all with a 1,000 track, yes 1,000-track, mixtape of his favorite tracks to school his fans on what they should be listening to. The playlist has tunes from a wide variety of genres and artists including Kanye West, Sly and the Family Stone, Led Zeppelin, Nas, Boz Scaggs, Kraftwerk, Neutral Milk Hotel and many more.

  • Eric Prydz Releases 'Prydz x Olander' Essential Mix [LISTEN]

    BBC Radio One's Essential Mix is one of the greatest platforms for DJs and electronic acts to showcase their music in the mixed music format. 2014 saw some outstanding mixes from the likes of Ten Walls, Bonobo, Porter Robinson, Grum, Deep Dish and the Essential Mix of the year from Caribou. 2015 did not let up one bit as 2013 Essential Mix of the year DJ Eric Prydz, ushered in the new year with the show's first back-to-back edition with his label mate Jeremy Olander.

  • Caribou Announces World Tour, North American Dates in February [SCHEDULE]

    Electronica band Caribou has announced a world tour for 2015 in support of their latest album "Our Love." Following January and February dates in Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and Japan, the Dan Snaith-fronted group will embark on a brief North American tour Feb. 26, hitting Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver. After a brief stint across Western Europe in mid-March, the band will return to North America April 11 for dates in Chicago, Minneapolis and various cities across central Canada. British electronic artist Koreless will be opening every show between Feb. 26 and March 14. You can check out Caribou's complete tour schedule here, via "Consequence of Sound":

  • NME Releases Full List of Best Albums of 2014: St. Vincent, Mac DeMarco and The War on Drugs Lead The Way

    Earlier this week we passed along the news that NME had released its choice for the best album of 2014. In its esteemed opinion, St. Vincent and her self-titled album took top prize this year, marking the first time in six years that a performer from outside of the "commonwealth" topped the British publication's list. The magazine published its full Top 50 on Thursday. You can check out the full thing here, or scroll down to see at least the Top 10.
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