Best of 2025

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Best of 2025 - Tracks
Best of 2025 - Tracks

Today we reveal our team’s favourite tracks of 2025! We asked each of our writers to pick their top five songs of the year, and write a quick sentence about each. The answers we got were diverse, from country to electro-pop and back again.

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Best of 2025 - Live Shows
Best of 2025 - Live Shows

Live shows are the heartbeat of the Canadian music scene, and over here at Cups N Cakes, we’re always a little bit sad that we don’t get to do as much coverage of live events as we’d like to. We’ve decided to change that: for the first time, we’re including a “Best Live Show” category in our year-end coverage. We asked our volunteers to pick their top 1-3 live shows of the year, and tell us what made it great.

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News
Best of M for Montreal 2025
Best of M for Montreal 2025

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, M for Montreal returned this year with a diverse range of artists and genres. Louise Jaunet from the Cups N Cakes Network was invited to review the best performances of this 20th edition of M for Montreal (Truck Violence, photo credit: Camille Gladu-Drouin)

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Reviews
The Blue - So Look at the Bright Side
Simone Atenea Medina Polo
The Blue - So Look at the Bright Side
Simone Atenea Medina Polo

This new album by The Blue is an absolute and communal tour de force, one which captivates the bright side that The Blue performs at his live shows — perhaps it has a brightness of its own. The cabaret of features really brings together some of Calgary’s best into a shared spotlight of their own making, and you get to learn how they made that spotlight themselves through hard work and looking out for each other.

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Simone Atenea Medina Polo

Release Calendar

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Upcoming Canadian Releases
Upcoming Canadian Releases

An ongoing list of all the upcoming Canadian releases that we know about.

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Featured
Best of 2025 - Tracks
best of 2025, best eps
Best of 2025 - Tracks
best of 2025, best eps

Today we reveal our team’s favourite tracks of 2025! We asked each of our writers to pick their top five songs of the year, and write a quick sentence about each. The answers we got were diverse, from country to electro-pop and back again.

Read More →
best of 2025, best eps

Pick of the Week

Home Front - Watch It Die

“Belly Hatcher take us back to the exciting days of 1980s EBM, influenced by the absurd techno-pop of Cabaret Voltaire and the industrial voodoo music of SPK. Their next concert at Taverne Tour in February is not to be missed!”

- Louise Jaunet