Hailing from the countryside of rural Ontario, Benjamin Dakota Rogers channels his penchant for starry nights and nostalgia into a stylized Americana sound full of heartbreak and grit featuring the guitar, banjo, upright bass, and fiddle. At just 25, the two-time Canadian Folk Music Awards nominee and four-time international songwriting competition winner promises to deepen the path he’s already carved for himself in the years to come.

Inspired by old Western movies, his new single “When I Do Die” follows the murder ballad storyline of boy meets girl and falls in love, but girl has another lover who boy kills. He gets the girl for a short while before his crime catches up to him. At the beginning of the song, he’s asking her to carry his body back home when he’s gone. 

20-year-old Billboard charting singer/songwriter Avery Raquel has been entertaining audiences professionally for over 10 years. Her impressive list of accomplishments ranges from television; onto the likes of Spielberg, DreamWorks, and Disney; voice-over work, commercials and radio; as well as a number of professional stage productions across Canada. 

Avery has three critically acclaimed albums under her belt. Now, she is gearing up to release her self-titled fourth in 2022; lead single “Helpless” debuted at #4 on iTunes Top 200 RnB/Soul chart.
Her latest song “Please” is a refreshing, soft take on a story about a love triangle. Already in a relationship, the third person was trying to convince Avery she’d be better off with him. Although she didn’t want to leave, she did enjoy their friendship and needed time to process the situation.

Bodyhorror is the pseudonym of Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Sean Panacci. The project’s new mini-LP, EVA, will be determined to take the listener through the depths of the cosmos on a psychedelic and synth soaked journey.

“Arrival,” EVA’s second single, is a bright instrumental marriage of electronics and guitars which embodies flight, space, and motion. 

The song captures the feeling of entering a new solar system and seeing that it is full of life. Distilled to its simplest elements, “Arrival” is finding what you were looking for after endless searching.

Poetic, painful, and empowering — Bryn dives into the depths of her psyche and identity, divulging the complexities of her inner world. The Toronto-based artist explores everything from toxic femininity to hereditary trauma in her upcoming project which heralds in a new era.

“Making Monsters” is her latest single, about being so committed to your anxiety that you can’t see or feel anything else, except alone in your own head.

The new video is a metaphor for the messiness and pervasiveness this song details.

Darling Congress is a band that should have never existed. What began as a reclusive solo project from Teenage Kicks founder, Peter van Helvoort, quickly grew into a collaboration among friends and trusted allies in the strangest of times.

The band’s new single, “Your Dog Don’t Like You,” is a slice of heartland rock with a poppier side. Sunflowers and dogs are cut from the same cloth, meant to represent devotion, admiration, and faithfulness. At the time, the dog that sparked this whole song was severely lacking in all three qualities, so dying sunflowers were used in this song’s visual.

Lyrically, “Your Dog Don’t Like You” explores how we can go to war with people our whole lives just to avoid having to admit we’re wrong. Compromise is easy on paper, yet it can be very difficult to come to in reality.

Kodiak Arcade is an ongoing art project spearheaded by Graeme Cornies, an award-winning composer best known for his film and television work with Voodoo Highway Music and Post. A hi-fi homage to the lo-fi sounds of the past, Kodiak Arcade is where the humanity of the organic performances are intertwined with sounds that can only be created by modern tech.

“Something Real” is Cornies’ first collaboration as a trio with Brian Pickett (Strumbellas, Simon and the Island, Warped 45s) and Joshua Van Tassel (Great Lake Swimmers, Sarah Slean, KIRTY). A mood-propelling song about the moments where we stop ruminating on the past or planning for the future in favour of being present. It’s also about the futility of trying to have it all.