Toronto-based producer, DJ, and beatmaker Ladji Mouflet unveils "Hatuey," a warrior of a single that pulls its title and its spirit from one of Caribbean history's most defiant figures.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxlic_BU78E

Built on the hypnotic percussion and rolling low end that have become his signature, the track finds Ladji at his most physical, a record made for the dance floor that carries something much older underneath it.

Cape Town, South Africa artist Esspi, the project of singer-songwriter Sarah Pearson, releases her new album, 'FAUXstalgia,' led by focus track "Retrograde," both  out now. The album takes its title from a word Esspi coined herself while studying the meaning of nostalgia in college, sitting in her mother's office one afternoon doing homework. "I went, wow, that's an emotion I experience every day, but I didn't know it existed," she says. "I knew the word was too iconic not to use." FAUXstalgia, as she defines it, is the feeling of mourning a time you never lived, or deeply understanding an emotion you never personally felt.

 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qSQJh6t95a0

Cobourg, Ontario based Lo & the High Road release "Salem," the latest single from their sophomore album, 'Standing Stones,' out October 2. Written by Lauren Halász and Colin McMahon, "Salem" trades the duo's usual fantasy and folklore for real history, drawing directly from the Salem Witch Trials and the words of the women who did not survive them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SueooE3HvYA

 After five years of work, six singles, and a rollout that has steadily built him into one of the most electrifying new voices on the West Coast, ALPHA CENTAURI is here with his full debut album, 'The Future Right Now,' out now via Rogue Planet. "Never Be," "Grow," "Get Your Money Up," "I'll Fly," "Higher Up" and "We Rise" each landed with their own moment in the spotlight, and together they were only the warmup. The ten-track album that follows is the real arrival, a genre blending, funk soaked, Afrobeat charged, jazz-tinged hip-hop statement recorded entirely live off the floor with his eight-piece band, and it is the sound of a star fully stepping into focus.

New Single Release “Does Anybody Care?” - Alex Hirsch Confronts Cold War Fear And Its Modern Echo

Alex Hirsch releases "Does Anybody Care?," a piano and saxophone driven track that pulls its urgency from a memory a lot of listeners will recognize, the fear of nuclear war that shaped an entire generation's childhood. Written by longtime collaborator Carl Paradise, the song draws directly from growing up during the Cold War, when American schoolchildren regularly practiced "duck and cover" drills in classrooms across the country and pairs that memory with a clear-eyed look at the anxieties of the present day.

Guelph, Ontario singer-songwriter Trina Chakrabarti releases "Take A Stance," out now, a deliberately stripped-down protest song built to let its lyrics carry the whole weight of the record. Where her debut EP, 'Underworld,' processed personal trauma through myth and metaphor, "Take A Stance" drops the allegory entirely. "I wanted this song to be more stripped down, and really have the lyrics shine," Chakrabarti says. "Just like I want to embrace the anger of my personal experiences, I believe in embracing the anger from world issues."

Mager BooBoo, the solo project of Canadian expat artist Robert Bachtell Eastland, releases "Monkey See Donkey Do" out now, the second single from his upcoming debut album, 'Oops!.' Where lead single "Dumb" turned everyday clumsiness into an anthem, "Monkey See Donkey Do" aims its animal metaphors at something bigger, the question of how much of who we are is actually our own. "Who are we really," Eastland asks, "slaves to the system, or little sparks of being following what we've always been taught?"

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ca8tLR5M7qs

Keith Holland releases "Get on Board," the second single from his upcoming sophomore album, 'Castles in the Sand,' arriving this September. Where lead single "Life" wrestled with the meaning of existence in the abstract, "Get on Board" tells an actual story, a fever dream about a ghostly train, an old conductor, and a passenger who learns his time has not yet come.

Katie Dauson has released "Fresh Sugar”, a country rock love ballad built around the feeling of finally finding the person who makes everything else make sense. The song came together fast and unexpectedly, written on her dad's birthday, after a spin of a Raspberries record on vinyl handed her the hook and title in the same instant. Dauson turned the turntable off right there and started writing in the family room of her house, the same place she writes almost everything.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqlizKRjgNg

Irish Millie has spent her entire life turning the way her mind works into music, and on her most ambitious project to date, the Peterborough, Ontario singer, songwriter, and fiddler steps fully into that instinct. Her new album, 'Can You See Me?,' is out now, and with it comes the release of "Boy At My Funeral," a sweeping, cinematic single featuring Marshall Pula that captures the record at its most emotionally dramatic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QVHQj-Pj4U

Vancouver based vintage soul, blues and roots quartet Honeybear will release its new album, 'The Cure,' on September 4, marking the follow up to a debut that turned four longtime friends into one of Canada's fastest rising roots acts. The band celebrates with two album release shows, first at Upstairs in Victoria on September 9 alongside Emmett Jerome, then home in Vancouver on September 10 at the Hollywood Theatre.

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Christopher James has spent his career serving the song rather than a single sound, and his new single "What If I," out now via Young Outlaw Music, makes that philosophy the entire point of the record. The song grew out of a question James kept circling: does a country artist really have to choose one lane and stay in it? "I could fit myself into a Toby Keith or George Strait sized box, but I'm Christopher James, y'all," he says, and the song sets out to prove exactly that.

 Listen on Spotify here: What If I • Christopher James

London, Ontario singer-songwriter Stephen Ingram releases "Leaving Song," the second single from his upcoming sophomore album, 'Silly Things,' arriving September 25. Where lead single "Sour Candy" traced Ingram's growth into himself, "Leaving Song" turns toward the place that shaped him first, Hamilton, and the complicated pull of a hometown that never quite felt like home.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t4jF7TBSsU

Kamloops Teenage Blues Phenom Jake Soberlak Announces Debut Album 'I'm In Trouble' + BC Tour 

Jake Soberlak Photo Credit Kevin Bogetti-Smith

At 17-years-old, Jake Soberlak of Kamloops, British Columbia plays the blues with the authority of someone who has lived inside the music for half a century. Today, the young guitarist, singer and harmonica player shares his debut single "You Gotta Leave," the first taste of his forthcoming album 'I'm In Trouble', arriving September 11, 2026. The song announces the arrival of one of the most compelling young voices working in Canadian blues today. 

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He’s been known as Mr. Maple Leaf of Canada in Peru, The Dancing Salesman on Mister Rogers’ TV Show, and the Hot Mikado on Broadway, but to me, he’s Joey. 

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 ASTRA writes from the uncomfortable spaces most songwriters avoid, the ones where softness and rage occupy the same breath. The Indo-Canadian singer-songwriter, born and raised in Ajax, Ontario and now based in Barrie, confronts that tension head-on with "IDGAF," out now, the single that refuses to let an abusive relationship have the last word.

https://youtu.be/iTMSru8mkMU?si=_5GuIa0LORVn-pXM

Vancouver's Son of James has released a cover of The Chicks' "There's Your Trouble," rebuilt through the band's own Chinese Canadiana lens and pulled from an unlikely source: a Lunar New Year party still in the planning stages.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX87QN1UD5k

For more than a decade, Huguette Lavigne has built a devoted audience the old-fashioned way, one improvised piano piece at a time. Her sixth album, 'Sometimes It's Just That Easy,' arrives at a moment when instrumental music is finding an entirely new generation of listeners, and the Ottawa based pianist and composer is proving that music built entirely on feel can speak to both a longtime jazz crowd and a much younger one discovering it for the first time.

 Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/track/4vvCW6LYsAFuIQt5k4F3rU

45 years after they first plugged in, Messenjah is not slowing down, they are staking their claim as one of the most important bands Canadian music has ever produced. Today, the group releases "No More," a bold, defiant new single that finds Canada's reggae originators sounding as fierce and vital as they did the day they started, and demanding, once and for all, that the world take notice.

 Listen on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/2Loe8h5D7txiwBVweO051J

George Stroumboulopoulos and Marie-Mai to Host September 26 Celebration at Massey Hall Honouring The Tragically Hip, Mike Reno and Paul Dean of Loverboy, Leslie Feist, and Roch Voisine, Allison Russell, Amanda Marshall, Charlotte Cornfield, Isabelle Boulay, Ludovick Bourgeois, Matt Lang, Ruby Waters, Sara Dufour, Sebastian Gaskin, TALK, Tia Wood, and Todd Kerns Join Newly Announced Performers; Boi-1da to Make Special Appearance; Inductors Include Bruce McCulloch, FINNEAS, Jay Baruchel, Jim Vallance, Laura Stacey, and Marie-Philip Poulin.