This week’s roundup is full of angst, bass, and blistering punk heat — what else would you expect from a Friday the 13th drop? 🔥 From Mustafa’s poetic Polaris-nominated lyricism to Heartrunner’s peak Myspace-core revival, we’re covering all moods, especially the messy ones.

🎶 There’s a Shadow in My Room and It Isn’t Mine — the debut album from Montreal-based artist APACALDA — is a genre-fluid plunge into heartbreak, healing, and haunting catharsis. www.reverie-online.com/interviews/a...

In this radiant interview by Gabrielle Cadiang , Kimmortal unpacks their new EP, karaoke favourites, and the power of seeing yourself in your art. From DIY beginnings to a full-band set at this year’s Sled Island, Kimmortal is a star — and they are here to remind you that you are too. 🌟

We’re kicking off our First Timers Club series with Vancouver hardcore unit Emma Goldman, a feral blend of screamo chaos and BPM-blasting electronics. From DIY roots to Sled Island debut, they’re ready to connect, rage, and sweat it out with Calgary. 🖤 ⁣ Full Q&A online now:

AMPLIFY ORIGINS: FREEDOM ✨✈️ A night of ritual, theatre, drag, music, movement, and four bold artists taking flight. Read our full story on reverie-online.com and apply now to be considered for Arts Commons’ 2026 cohort, accepting applications until June 30, 2025 (link in article).

Happy June and hello new releases! ⭐️ This week we were blessed with full-length albums, EPs, and singles spanning from stoner metal to hard rock to deep dub. Discover the emerging sounds in Canada ⬇️ www.reverie-online.com/news/new-mus...

It was a homecoming for Preoccupations in Calgary, AB this week and we loved every minute of it. What stood out most was how seamlessly their newer material blended with their early work. Songs from their latest release didn’t feel like departures but rather natural evolutions. Read our review ⬇️

Calgary’s egg punk darlings Dial Up are hitting the West Coast with their most ambitious project yet — Ball Pit, out June 5 via Splitter Records. 🥚📞✨ We caught up with our Spring 2025 cover stars to talk DIY mythology, sugar people vs. gold people, and building community one weirdo show at a time.

A night of hopeful liberation at The Palace Theatre with Godspeed! You Black Emperor. Mat Ball opened with a haunting solo set, preparing the stage for Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s sprawling, cinematic performance that shook Calgary to its core. www.reverie-online.com/reviews/gods...

Check out what we’re listening to this week, curated by Emma Marshall 🎶💿 We’ve got post-punk, cosmic instrumentals, and jazzy dream pop that aches in all the right places - including a new single from Calgary-now-Vancouver based band Still Depths. www.reverie-online.com/news/music-r...

Sweaty rooms, screaming choruses, and a whole lot of heart. We caught Innerouter & G.U.S.H. at Loophole last Friday for a night of music, mental health advocacy and some of the loudest love we’ve seen for the local scene. Check out our live review: www.reverie-online.com/reviews/gush...

My interview with Juno and Andrew of @chinamedsband.bsky.social is now up on @reveriemagazine.bsky.social !!! I have loved this band and this magazine for so long and am so stoked about this!! Go read at Reverie right now!!! Link in post below as well as in my bio 🖤🖤

@emmoore.bsky.social caught up with Juno Hailey and Andrew Pearson of Toronto group Chinese Medicine to talk about the evolution of the songs on their new album ‘The Trans Agenda’, existing under capitalism, the importance of community, and so much more. Read it now on reverie-online.com 🖤🖤🖤

New releases for our ears 🥰 This week we are listening to la lune, CAT PISS, Babygirl, Umru, Preoccupations, Men I Trust, and more. Check out our new music roundup on reverie-online.com! www.reverie-online.com/news/new-mus...

Alberta’s own Boot Wave beauties, Home Front returned to the Palomino last Friday featuring Poison Ruiin & Rhythm of Cruelty🤘🏻 Read the full review written and photographed by Myles Marleau! www.reverie-online.com/reviews/home...

In an era where genre-bending is the new normal, Tapeworms stands out as a band that effortlessly weaves together lo-fi charm with polished electronic production. Their new album, Grand Voyage, is out now. Read our full interview with the group. www.reverie-online.com/interviews/t...

Remember when we said Viagra Boys were the weirdest band of the decade? Their fourth album ‘viagr aboys’ just proved us right again. They’re throwing country twang, jazz flutes, and their signature sax into the mix this time, and somehow it all works perfectly. Check out our review below ⬇️

Have you asked yourself lately: “what is the Reverie team listening to”? Well, we’re back baby! Our favourites of the week include New Saint, Hermitess, NON ULTRAS , SAMWOY teaming up with Virginie B, Chloe Stankowski and Nevik, Rachella Wred, and more! www.reverie-online.com/news/weekly-...

What started as a solo project by Calgary-based artist TJ Elkin has now become the experimental noir-folktronica trio, Tawni Bias. With their new album Saddle Fawn out today, Reverie had the opportunity to sit down with vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, TJ Elkin.

Ribbon Skirt recently released their new album ‘Bite Down’ to critical acclaim and we cannot get enough. We caught up with the band at @sxsw.com after a melting performance at Swan Dive to chat about their return to Calgary this June for Sled Island.

The only thing better than a long weekend starting on Friday is kickstarting it on Thursday night with a loaded trifecta of Canuck Punk at beloved local haunt, Pin-Bar. Read our review of local acts Glitter Glue, School Damage, and No Brainer. www.reverie-online.com/reviews/no-b...

FILM REVIEW: Ebony and Ivory “Brace yourselves for a lot of male nudity, gross-out moments and a film that eschews plot for Weirdo Vibes…Like the best kind of art, it provokes a reaction and response and that is reason enough it demands to be seen.” www.reverie-online.com/reviews/ebon...

Calgary Underground Film Fest is currently taking place and we’ve been having a blast checking out some of the best in independent cinema! Some of our favourites include CUFF’s short film packages that include ‘Cancer Szn’ and ‘No Artichokes’.

Mac Demarco shares that he’ll be going on tour in Canada, with a new album slated for August 🎉 Check out the full list of dates, including a show in Calgary at MAC Hall: www.macdemarco.com/tour/

Happy release day to our “besties” Black Country, New Road. Their highly anticipated third studio album, Forever Howlong, is out now via Ninja Tune. Read our chat with drummer Charlie Wayne and violinist Georgia Ellery (who both also lend their vocals to the BC,NR chorus) on reverie-online.com ♥️

Calgary Underground Film Festival has revealed their lineup! Here are a few favourites we are excited to see, including a SXSW favourite we saw, FRIENDSHIP starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd: www.reverie-online.com/news/cuff-20...

Earning his reputation as a versatile instrumentalist and sought-after collaborator, Brock Geiger steps into the spotlight as a solo artist, delivering a project that is as personal as it is ambitious on his debut release ‘Some Nights’. Read our full review: www.reverie-online.com/reviews/some...

Welcome to the Land of Shunk 🏰 Learn more about the emerging Montreal band who’ve carved out a distinctive niche where whimsical medieval fantasy meets raw post-punk energy. Their debut album ‘Shunkland’ is out now, read more about it in our interview with Shunk on reverie-online.com.

Sports Car Era by Devours confronts the topics of queerness, aging, and struggling in the Vancouver music scene, on top of a well-crafted, of-the-moment electronic sound. Read Marcus Ogden’s interview and review on reverie-online.com. www.reverie-online.com/interviews/d...

Six albums in seven years. Few bands produce music at such a bountiful clip, but FACS keeps fueling the flame. Read @jordanjmichael.bsky.social’s full review of FACS’ ‘Wish Defense’ now on reverie-online.com. www.reverie-online.com/reviews/facs...

That’s a wrap on SXSW! 😮‍💨 A surprise appearance from Julien Baker, emo night courtesy of Smartpunk Records…and emo puppets? SXSW was unforgettable to say the least. Here’s our final recap, till next year! ⬇️ www.reverie-online.com/reviews/sxsw...

When in Austin, we see Die Spitz🤘🏻 Read our latest recap featuring Confidence Man and Metome at @sxsw.com. www.reverie-online.com/interviews/s... #sxsw2025 #diespitz

Happy release day to Shiv and the Carvers 🎸 Marcus Ogden caught up with the Toronto skate punk band ahead of their sophomore EP, Tell Me You Love Me Again, to learn more about why Shiv and the Carvers are a one-to-watch group. www.reverie-online.com/interviews/s...

Drag, Aly & Aj, Frankie and the Witch Fingers pop-up at Waterloo Records, Pop Montreal takeover in Austin - we did it all on Wednesday night! Check out our mid-week recap: www.reverie-online.com/reviews/sxsw...

La Securite, Gus Englehorn, Slash Need - the Canadian representation is ripping it up this week at @sxsw.com Read our recap of what we saw at the fest on Wednesday ⬇️ www.reverie-online.com/reviews/2fsb...

SXSW day one featuring Truck Violence, CDSM, Spike Hellis and more on the iconic Hotel Vegas stage in Austin, TX 🪩 Follow along as we recap our adventures at @sxsw.com www.reverie-online.com/reviews/l9f7...

Missed Dial Up, Non Ultras, and Parisian Orgy on Friday at the Palomino? We recapped a few of our favourite moments down below! TLDR: slumber parties, arm wrestling, time loops. www.reverie-online.com/reviews/dial...

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Dive into the cauldron with Eye of Newt & turn up the volume with Dial Up! Thrilled to have two cover features for our spring edition of Reverie Magazine. Also featured: Truck Violence, Shiv and the Carvers, Chat Pile, & more. Secure your copy by visiting www.reverie-online.com/shop/p/rever...

Our slumber party with Parisian Orgy x Non Ultras x Dial Up was a delight 💖 Thanks to everyone who came out to the Palomino last night! And congrats to Dial Up on the new single release and cover feature 🎉

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While normally we spotlight the latest in music that dropped this week, we are switching things up today. Your intrepid musical anthropologists will brave Austin’s annual industry feeding frenzy, SXSW, to bring you the acts worth your precious time and inevitable hangover.

ALBUM REVIEW: Dweller by Haunted Horses The Seattle industrial-punk trio released their fourth album, expanding on their exploration of existential dread and transformation. Read @jordanjmichael.bsky.social’s full review: www.reverie-online.com/reviews/haun...

Kentish singer-songwriter Evan Williams created a lo-fi music video with a puppet, drawing inspiration from Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds and Jim Henson’s The Muppets, for his rousing alt-rock crooner track “Kindred Sin.” We’re premiering the music video now via Reverie Magazine - check it out!👇🏻

Calgary rocks so hard. 100% coming back as often as possible. What a fun night.

@chatpileband.bsky.social finally hit Calgary, AB on March 1, selling out Commonwealth with Gouge Away and Nightosphere, proving that noise rock still packs rooms in this town. Read our full live show review ⬇️ www.reverie-online.com/reviews/chat...

Friday night magic at #1 Legion ✨ Kue Varo and the Only Hopes brought down the house celebrating “Now’s The Time” single release! The lineup also included local favourites Stucco, Window Lamp, Jolene Marie, and Shy Friend. We’re still thinking about those shimmering stars and glistening lights…

It’s BC,NR day! They released “Happy Birthday” and we can’t get enough of this stop motion video they premiered with it today (magical and haunting, with a tinge of Wes Anderson on the side). youtu.be/_fOdb4STQow?...

Oooooo new tunes? We got you covered 😎 This week features Bria Salmena, Dial Up, Blackwater Holylight, Backxwash, Camilla Sparksss, Kue Varo and the Only Hopes, and more. www.reverie-online.com/news/new-mus...

@marlaenamoore.bsky.social shared a new music video for “Empties” taken from her critically acclaimed album, ‘Because You Love Everything’, & announced a spring tour with Land of Talk. Our tears continue to flow and our love for the album grows. Check out our Q&A with Marlaena ⬇️