The ink is dry on a label deal with The Wet Secrets, Edmonton’s favourite furry shako <wikipedia> – hatted “frantic pop” rockers. Don’t let their impeccable tailoring suggest the band’s energy is anything so buttoned up – The Wet Secrets put on a helluvasweatyawesome live show wherever they go.

Toronto axe-master supergroup C & C Surf Factory brings their salty, scrappy instrumental surf rock off the stage and into the studio with Garage City, the debut album, coming April 14, 2015 on Six Shooter Records.

Outlaws & Gunslingers shines the spotlight on songwriters at this year’s JUNOfest musical bonanza, to take place at This Ain’t Hollywood on Friday, March 13.

Six Shooter Records has scored a huge personnel coup, announcing Michelle Aquilato as the label’s USA General Manager, a brand new position. As curator of the celebrated Americana Music Association’s Festival and a producer of its annual star-studded Honors & Awards show, Aquilato’s ability to identify up and coming artists, and her vast experience in working at the front lines of the Americana community, makes her one of the genre’s important tastemakers.

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Canadian folk queen gently kicks out the jams. Newfoundlander Amelia Curran has got the seven-album itch. After six largely acoustic albums she’s pulled out an electric guitar and just about decided to rock. No matter what the setting, however, it’s the lyrics that you come to Curran for, and here she displays a new-found acceptance of her own frailty,

Whitehorse chatted with Pop Music Critic Ben Rayner (one of our favourite music writers) + performed a few songs from the new album, Leave No Bridge Unburned, at the Toronto Star.

Leave No Bridge Unburned has been top of mind in 2015 as one of the year’s most hotly anticipated albums. The build-up to the official release date has seen Whitehorse’s profile break new ground, driven by the commercial radio success of “Downtown,” the album’s first single.

CBC Music presents Whitehorse at Steam Whistle’s iconic Roundhouse in Toronto, where the band unveiled songs from Leave No Bridge Unburned in front of friends and fans. Go behind the scenes at this event and listen in to Luke and Melissa speak about the making of the new album.

Austin, TX (aka the hometown to Shakey Graves) is celebrating Shakey Graves Day once again this year. In celebration of SGD, “Nobody’s Fool” an EP consisting of songs that were recorded during the making of “And The War Came” is now available on Shakey Graves’ bandcamp page.

PopMatters got the scoop on a new video for the opening track of Leave No Bridge Unburned, coming February 17 on Six Shooter Records. Baby What’s Wrong? is “an alluring cut of desert rock,” says PopMatters, and “sounds like a would-be James Bond theme, if said James Bond movie were directed by John Hillcoat and was set in the desert.”

Click here to pre-order Whitehorse’s stellar new album, Leave No Bridge Unburned, on vinyl or CD. You can pre-order the album through iTunes and receive Baby What’s Wrong? Downtown, and Sweet Disaster instantly. Official release date: February 17, 2015.