News
Premieres, and other information you need to stay up to date with the Canadian music scene.
We premiere “Razzle Dazzle” from Edmonton rockers Tebby & the Heavy, the second single from their just-announced debut album Heavy Afternoon, coming in the summer of 2025.
We premiere the new music video the “Hot Dr. Pibbs”, from Bad Hoo’s May 2024 album A Run-In With Worms.
We premiere the video for the new song from Paige Drobot, "Alien Girl", the A-side to a new 7" record that you can preorder today.
We premiere the song “Same Hands” from Mallory Chipman’s new album Songs To A Wild God, due out tomorrow, September 27th.
We premiere the new music video for "Bad Boy of Redemption Ranch" from Edmonton's own Bobby Tenderloin Universe.
We premiere the new single "Dusty Vinyl" from the upcoming Wolf Willow album Soul of Slippery Butte, due out September 10th.
We premiere the first single “Glass Eye” from Sean Davis Newton’s newly announced debut LP Bird Brain.
We premiere the music video for "Millions", the third single from the upcoming innerouter LP Get Real.
Josiah Snell delivers part 1 of our Sled Island 2024 recap.
We premiere the latest song from Edmonton hyperpop artist pseudo-antigone, in support of the announcement of her sophomore self-titled record, coming out on July 26th.
Picks Of The Week
Full reviews of the best new Canadian releases. Each week we give you a break down of multiple albums we think you need to hear and support.
Ava Glendinning reviews Thunder Perfect Mind from New Brunswick’s Motherhood, an album notable for both its comic-book momentum and its value as a work of fantastical sci-fi poetry.
Chris Lammiman reviews the debut LP from Calgary’s Stucco, the aptly named LP1, “a gem of an album well worth a spin on your way through the streets”.
Artemis Peaslee reviews the appropriately ethereal new album Think of Mist from Dorothea Paas.
Longtime Cups N Cakes writer JD Ormond returns with his first review in years, a negative odyssey on the subject of the new Holy Void record, All Will Be Revealed In Time.
Clay Geddert reviews Yoo Doo Right’s album From the Heights of Our Pastureland, a record that “encapsulates all the fervor and tenacity that defines Yoo Doo Right”.
Cups N Cakes is back from our holiday break with Ava Glendinning’s review of Hildegard’s October 2024 album Jour 1596.
Chris Lammiman writes about the new record Shame from OMBIIGIZI, a record that creates a “sense of expansive welcome that does offer invitation into catharsis and beauty”.
Chris Lammiman writes a review of Ontario songwriter and yes, national treasure, Jennifer Castle’s latest record Camelot.
Penelope Stevens reviews the debut album Bird Brain from Edmonton’s Sean Davis Newton, an album that “would be as well-suited on a 2008 indie film soundtrack as in a 1930s cabaret”.
Josiah Snell reviews the tantalizing new album from Ontario’s Christo Graham, the unreservedly brilliant Music For Horses.
Jeff MacCallum writes about All Wilds Things Are Shy, the stunning posthumous release from songwriter Richard Laviolette.
Josiah Snell reviews the "potent and delightful" new LP from The Secret Beach, the wonderfully titled We were born here, what's your excuse?.
Quick Picks
Curated and written by Brandon Kruze, the Quick Picks section is updated every Friday with up & coming or lesser known acts, as well as singles or small EPs by Canadian favourites.
Jeff MacCallum delivers four new Quick Picks for a frosty February morning.
Jeff MacCallum checks in for the final Quick Picks column in January.
Jeff MacCallum tackles some releases that deserved a place on his “Best of 2024” list, but hey; you can’t catch em all.
Jeff MacCallum writes a special Francophone edition of the Quick Picks column.
Jeff MacCallum returns with his first Quick Picks column of 2025.
Jeff MacCallum pens a special ‘loud’ edition of the Quick Picks, just in time for the holidays.
Jeff MacCallum writes about four new releases in this week’s edition of the Quick Picks.
Jeff MacCallum writes about four new releases in this week’s edition of the Quick Picks.
Jeff MacCallum pens a special hip hop edition of the Quick Picks.
Features
Lists, written interviews, live reviews, and opinion pieces that are all centred around… you guessed it… Canadian music!
It’s time! It’s the Cups N Cakes Network’s annual round up of the releases we’re most excited for in 2025. A few of our writers took up the task, and are excited to dish on albums, both confirmed and not, that we’re looking forward to in 2025.
In our last piece before the end of the year, Sean Davis Newton tells us about a few of his top picks from 2024.
For our penultimate Best Of article, Cups N Cakes founder and the current maestro of our Quick Picks column Jeff MacCallum runs through his year in music.
Chris Lammiman and Ava Glendinning talk about some of their favourite releases from 2024.
Cups N Cakes volunteer Clay Geddert takes the reins today to tell us about some of us his top picks from 2024.
For 2024, the Cups N Cakes Network is approaching our year-end lists a little differently: we’ve asked some of our volunteers to tell us a bit about their favourite releases this year. Today, we kick things off with longtime Cups N Cakes volunteer Harman Burns’ Best of 2024.
Sean Davis Newton writes about one of Edmonton’s finest music and arts venues, The Aviary, and their crucial spring fundraiser coming up on May 18th.
That’s right, it’s our final article of the year: Cups N Cakes reveals our top 20 records of 2023.
Sean Davis Newton and Jeff MacCallum pick their honourable mentions for Best Albums of 2023.
Jeff MacCallum delivers four new Quick Picks for a frosty February morning.