Toronto-based alternative rock band Eleven Minutes Late returns with “Caligo,” a rhythmic, captivating single that fuses Latin-inspired grooves with rock energy and undeniable dancefloor spirit. Built around a magnetic drum beat and layered with each member’s distinct musical personality, “Caligo” is an invitation to move – a soundtrack for catching someone’s eye across the room and feeling that instant spark.

From the first rehearsal, “Caligo” was about harnessing joy and letting it loose. “It’s the kind of song that makes you want to move,” says drummer Luis. “It started with a Latin groove and turned into something that feels like each of us – upbeat, and just fun as hell.” Lead guitarist Vincent adds, “It’s an up-tempo party song that encourages the listener to let loose and get lost in the rhythm without thinking too hard.”

The track evolved organically from a simple idea into a full-band creation. Luis brought in the heartbeat of the song – a Latin-style drum pattern – and the band built it up layer by layer, blending bouncy basslines, wah-infused rhythm guitar, and a bright lead melody. Even the song’s title was a collaborative process, arising from an inside joke, a Pinterest search for “cool Latin words,” and a unanimous band vote. 

Toronto-based indie pop/rock artist Brodie Christ returns with his new single “Now I Can’t Dance,” a joyful, reverent love song orbiting devotion and desire. With an energetic pulse and interstellar metaphor, “Now I Can’t Dance” is a tribute to awe—in partnership, in politics, and in the gravity of love.

“I wanted to write a tribute song to my partner. She is a powerhouse and an inspiration. She is the type of person that exudes high levels of both beauty and intelligence. She is a person that people orbit around. I wanted to express that her entire being creates gravity and here I am just trying to float around and be part of her solar system,” says Christ.

Built on an expressive bassline by Kyle T Bass, locked-in drums from Miles Gibbons, and a light, looped vocal sample woven through the verses, the track is a sonic standout on Christ’s upcoming full-length album Big Feelings (out October 15, 2025).

Listen to “Now I Can’t Dance” HERE.
Watch the official video for “Now I Can’t Dance” HERE.

The song’s infectious rhythm and heady metaphor are backed by unexpected depth. Although it started as a love song, Christ couldn’t avoid societal critiques.

“Even in writing a tribute song, I found it hard not to be political. My frustration around widely accepted ideas of nation states and borders, control of people and migration, and privatization of assets like water comes through. The view from space allows perspective to see how petty, silly, and fabricated walls and borders are. I am inspired by a quote from Thor Heyerdahl: ‘Borders? I have never seen one, but I have heard they exist in the minds of some people.’”

There’s both lightness and weight in “Now I Can’t Dance,” a contrast that feels foundational to Brodie Christ’s approach as a songwriter.

It’s work, getting loose, gotta leave it all in the other room
It’s work, on the floor, gotta clean it till our feet go raw

Thematically, Christ continues his deep dive into the fragile and funny parts of the human condition. Big Feelings, recorded following a string of life-altering events—including the loss of his father, the birth of his daughter, and a full shift in lifestyle—finds Christ grappling with both personal evolution and public chaos.

“Each song on Big Feelings packs an emotional punch,” he explains. “I used to think of the songs as an outlet, a means to share emotions I couldn’t express in my everyday life. But now, I need to really feel and communicate these everyday feelings as they come up, no matter how difficult. The songs can tackle bigger things.”

“Now I Can’t Dance” feels both celestial and grounded—an honest celebration of being pulled into someone else’s orbit, willing to spin there, reverently and rhythmically.

Vancouver-based pop artist Matías Roden latest single is “On the Run” – a melancholic, joyful, and ultimately bittersweet synth-pop track about a common gay male experience: the fear of commitment and the instinct to flee just as things start to get real. It’s a “pre-heartbreak song,” as Roden calls it, capturing the electric high of early romance alongside the creeping sense of its inevitable end.

Framed by country-inspired songwriting, dark synth textures, and a hooky pop-rock spirit, “On the Run” channels disparate influences – from sunset car rides to Depeche Mode – into a compelling story of fleeting love and fragile connection. Co-produced with acclaimed Canadian artist Louise Burns, the song features drums crafted entirely by Roden, who chopped and stitched together samples to build the pulsing heartbeat of the track.

Written after a short-lived relationship where both intimacy and impermanence were inescapable, “On the Run” leans into dualities: sparse, minimalist verses that give way to denser, sweeping choruses before stripping back to near silence in its final moments. The ebb and flow echo the unpredictable rhythms of desire, fear, and longing.

The official video for “On the Run” mirrors the song’s wistful tension with a clever country-inspired concept that blends queer visibility and political commentary. It follows two cowboys fleeing America for Canada, culminating in a kiss beneath a massive Canadian flag – a direct nod to Bruce Springsteen’s iconic “Born in the USA” imagery (as is the single artwork which is a mirror image of Springsteen’s iconic Born in the USA album cover, just with a Canadian flag instead of American). It features a defiantly Canadian twist at a time where the country is grappling with issues of nationhood and identity as its relationship with its southern neighbour is tested. 

Featuring actor Connor Riopel (Amazon Prime’s Laid), the video pays tribute to Roden’s adopted homeland while sparking conversation about LGBTQ+ rights, national identity, and belonging.

Sturle Dagsland is a highly acclaimed genre-bending artist from Norway. With a wild and unique
performance he captivates the audience and takes the listeners on an adventurous journey.
Together with his brother Sjur they have toured extensively at festivals all across the world, from
Shanghai to New York, GreSturle Dagsland is a highly acclaimed genre-bending artist from Norway. With a wild and unique performance he captivates the audience and takes the listeners on an adventurous journey. Together with his brother Sjur they have toured extensively at festivals all across the world, from Shanghai to New York, Greenland and all the way to the Source of the Nile in Africa. The two brothers conjure an expressive ever-changing soundscape with a distinctive sonic palette and an uncompromising whirlwind of sound. Dominated by Sturle’s astonishing voice their sound evolves from the ethereal and beautiful to wild and abrasive in a matter of seconds.

His second album Dreams and Conjurations to be released on October 10, 2025. Having released his first heavy experimental single,“Galdring,” today Sturle releases a more ambient electronic and avant garde, “Whispering Forest, Echoing Mountains.”

“Whispering Forest, Echoing Mountains” is presenting the listeners for both the melancholic and playful side of Dagsland’s songwriting.  Throughout the song Sturle utilizes his own Norwegian folk inspired singing technique, a particular style  associated with being out in the mountains looking over and caring for the goats and cattle. The style may also be associated with the sort of singing the joyous animal characters of the Norwegian fairy tales would be chanting while hiking through the woods on an adventure.

Sturle explains:“The first ideas of the song came about during a late night walk through the Hutongs of Beijing. The people living there were very welcoming and after a while  me and my brother were invited into the home of an old half-blind man that showed us around.  He had a cozy home and while his relatives were  preparing for supper he opened a big case in the living room. Inside the case was this old and dusty Guzheng, which is a traditional Chinese harp. The man put it on his lap and slowly strung a chord while reciting a riddle about a dream he had about the Norwegian mountains and the magical creatures he believed lived in our forest. All of a sudden he stopped playing and said: “Now it is your turn”. We started playing and improvising and after a while we all ended up playing together until the end of the night. As a direct result of the jam we engaged in the first ideas of the song was created… A couple of years later we came across some recordings from that night and continued pursuing the ideas of that song in our family´s cabin in the mountains. In a way, I also feel this is our tree climbing song. To me it feels like being in the forest meeting friendly squirrels and bullfinch birds while hanging upside down from a tree branch.”

Expect the unexpected and lean into a musical odyssey that conjures sounds of the netherworlds and intertwines old primordial knowledge with avant-garde pop music, screaming metal, folk music and immersive electronic soundscapes; From the beautiful and haunting ambient landscapes of “Windharp,” the Norwegian folk dance inspired track “Hallingen,”the self-collected ghost stories which inspired “Kwaidan,” the genuine joyfulness of “Whispering Forest, Echoing Mountains” and “The Ritual”- a song inspired by a raw shamanistic ritual that Sturle once found himself engaged in.

Armed with a brigade of instruments the two multi-instrumentalists are utilizing a wide array of different melodic instruments; including Nordic folk instruments like Nyckelharpa and goat horns, to Chinese Guzheng, West-African Kora, Marxophone, Fula flute, Hungarian Cimbalom, Waterphone and dozens of different folk instruments that they have gathered during their travels. The soundscape is pushed further blending them with distorted imperfect sounds, synthesizers and custom made electronics. Although mostly recorded in their hometown of Stavanger, where the brothers have their studio, they put together different segments of the album in different locations across the world absorbing the various landscapes to inspire the record; these ranged from remote cabins in the Norwegian mountaintops to abandoned industrial estates, retired Soviet Navy ships in Eastern Europe, Villages in Uganda and in a desolated clocktower during a snowstorm on the Faroe Islands. These untraditional and often enchanting recording

environments breathe into the album’s rich tapestry . The duo’s artistic creations encompass several genres; both the tranquil and intimate “Drifter” as well as the shamanistic performance of “Galdring,” a vehement musical expression fueled by primal screams, ceremonial Sámi drums, wooden logs, bones, harps and distant cow horns before segueing into an intense blend of world music.

Early 2021 Sturle Dagsland released their first full-length album. Their debut won one of the prestigious Edvard Awards, honoring the best Norwegian albums of the year. Their sophomore album demonstrates the potent symbiosis of the two brothers, threading intricate melodies and sounds through their Norwegian roots, incorporating inspiration of both their indigenous ancestry, primal expressions, dreams, rituals, as well as imaginative and futuristic concepts.

Wild, expressive, and truly idiosyncratic, the long-awaited sophomore album by one of Norway’s most innovative and experimental talents will be released on October 10, 2025.

Toronto-based artist KERUB dives headfirst into memory, fear, and the uneasy pull of nostalgia on their mesmerizing new album, APHANTASIA. Blending lush indie electronica with philosophical depth and glitchy, dream-like textures, the album is a raw exploration of queerness, childhood, and trying to build a future when you can’t always picture one. Haunting lead single, “Calm,” captures the aftermath of panic in striking detail – that delicate moment when your heart finally slows and you’re left alone with the wreckage.

Written partially as a master’s thesis, “Calm” began in a haze of bodily awareness after KERUB‘s first panic attack, unpacking what it means to be so far from home, trying to stay grounded in a new city. Relocation from the West Coast to Toronto sparked reflections on connections left behind and those newly formed – woven through late-night phone calls, breathless arguments, and moments of quiet dissociation. With intimate vocals and instrumentals designed to feel both familiar and uncannily synthetic, “Calm” becomes a soft yet unflinching look at vulnerability, rendered with voyeuristic tenderness.

Across APHANTASIA, KERUB builds on this tension. Inspired by Nietzsche’s concept of the Eternal Return – an endless loop of life repeating itself – the album critiques the comforting but dangerous pull of early 2000s nostalgia. It’s at once a personal meditation on growing up queer in suburban Vancouver and a broader challenge to hauntology’s cultural recycling, asking: what if we’re doomed to relive it all? And what might it mean to claw out a new home anyway?

Emmy-winning musician Little Bihlman (Scot Bihlman)’s new single “Fade Away” jhas ust debuted as the very first release on V13 Music, the new label from V13 Media Group.

“Fade Away” is a stripped-down, emotionally charged track that hits with the weight of experience. It carries the sound of an artist who’s lived the highs, lows, and long nights of a music career — and has come out the other side with something real to say. Bihlman describes it best himself:

“Fade Away carries the weight of long nights on the road, empty green rooms, cramped vans, missed calls, and fleeting highs, the real stuff that fuels a lifetime in music. And yet there’s a looseness to it. A freedom. You can hear it in the way the drums snap, the way his voice rides the edge of each phrase. It’s not about proving anything. It’s about telling the truth.”

Known for his work with Grinder Blues and The Bihlman Bros., Bihlman has performed with the likes of John Fogerty, BB King, Jelly Roll, and Trey Anastasio, and his music has been featured in over 30 TV placements including Sons of Anarchy and Burn Notice. His sound blends blues grit, heartland rock, and a raw Americana spirit he calls “motorcycle poetry for truth-seekers.”

“Fade Away” is the first taste of his upcoming solo album Heavy Head (produced by Miles Fulwider), arriving in 2025 alongside new drops from his vintage-Americana apparel line, Hillbilly Royalty.