There’s nothing easy about wanting someone who doesn’t want you back. Alternative synth pop artist and producer NEAVV’s new single, “Want You,” is a dark jam for anyone having a hard time moving on from the love story they thought was theirs. 

“Want You” was inspired by the end of a relationship with someone who wasn’t being completely honest at the time. It’s a snapshot of what NEAVV was feeling right after it happened. She knew that she deserved better but she was still struggling with wanting and missing that person even though she knew they had already moved on.

NEAVV: When listening to “Want You,” I just hope listeners find a place to sit in whatever emotions come up for them and know that any loss is hard – and it’s ok to not be ok. 

“Want You” is the first song that NEAVV produced on her own. It was written, recorded, and produced by hersel, partly out of frustration from the lack of female music producers in the industry. NEAVV decided to be part of the change, dedicating the past two years to teaching herself how to produce. Along with her own music, NEAVV’s goal is to produce for other artists and help empower other women to learn the same skills in the hopes of increasing female representation on the charts and in the studio.

AUS!Funkt began as an electro project by Serbian artist Jozzef Ladovina of the “Kool Rock Da Pop” band Auf Wiedersehen, which grew into two immigrants and two Canadians who found each other through a mutual love of dark electronic beats and piercing post-punk provocation, and everything in-between. 

AUS!Funkt debuts their full-length record, Turn To Rust, showcasing a diversity of genres —dark-disco, art-punk, surf, funk, darkwave, psych-rock, breakbeat—and promises more dark disco beats to come. 

The titular track signifies the end of something beautiful, and the search for hope and meaning after it’s all over. Despite the bleakness, there is still beauty in “the rust,” and belief that something new and good will come from that obsolescence.

Stream Turn To Rust, a dance record about the issues of our time: social anxiety, systematic oppression, endless information, regurgitated views, and recycled narratives.

Vancouver-based musician Danny Echo combines brit-pop melodies, classic rock vocals with the alt-pop excitement of a SpaceX launch. 

Locked up and locked down during a particularly rainy night endlessly scrolling and clicking, Echo’s new single “Zeros and Ones” took shape on an acoustic guitar. Drawing comparisons between the weather and online world. A dystopian yet sanguine look of our modern civilization today, through the coded eyes of the internet.

Having embraced a number of projects and collaborations, including The Ryecatchers, Clementine, The Walk-Ins, and The Swimming Hammers, his debut solo single “Tomorrow Today” recorded with Jeff Dawson (Daniel Powter) and mixed by Mike Fraser (ACDC, Mother Mother) gained notoriety on local radio stations. After that initial spark, two solo albums followed.

Toronto rock band, Goodnight Sunrise, was founded through a shared love of pop hooks and the raw power of classic rock. Since 2011, the band have taken their explosive live show to over 300 audiences across Canada, the US, and Europe, opening up for Bon Jovi, Big Wreck, and The Sheepdogs along the way.

Their latest release, “Wait For It,” is a driving alternative rock track for the summer, written for anyone who is tired of being confined by societal pressures. It’s a rousing sing along for the dreamers who are tired of everyone else acting like they’ve got all the answers.

Shades Lawrence is a Montreal-born, queer hip hop artist of mixed British, Jamaican, Irish and Scottish heritage. A pure lyricist, Lawrence’s style can be described as alternative hip hop. Her words uplift, while keeping environmental justice at the forefront.

“Peace, that’s what we need,” raps Lawrence on her new single released on the heels of 2022 full-length album, Trust Takes Time. “Peace” directly names the Russian government’s invasion of the Ukraine, and urges the global community to negotiate for peace.  

Stun is an award winning Canadian indigenous hip hop artist from Oxford House, Manitoba. Leaning toward his most prominent project yet, Lifestylez of The Fresh & Indigenous is the third installment toward the hip hop artist’s catalog, with a lead single titled “Indigenous” set to take the airwaves across turtle island. 

It was the end of 2019. Stun was feeling optimistic, having dropped an album that summer and he felt the need to keep pushing his momentum with performances and writing sessions. And the idea of the song “Indigenous” came into place when he’d seen what was happening in the world – especially the protests and the ongoing call for the missing and murdered. It was right in his face at many stages. He felt pain, but also a sense of confidence because he wanted people to feel like they could get up and do something about it. And then the song blossomed into his lap.

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With the new album, Lifestylez of The Fresh & Indigenous, Stun is hoping that people can get a more in-depth sense of his culture and an indefinite experience of what happens in his life. He wants them to feel love, passion and pride – in other words, a great understanding of the lifestyles of the fresh & indigenous. 

Stun wanted to toss in both sides of his life: the emotional side and the indigenous side with a little bit of bravado incorporated into it. It’s not your typical storyline album, it’s more of a collection of stuff he was feeling and going through at the time.