Last fall, Canadian greats Sloan released their new album Steady, and they are currently touring across Canada and the US. On Thursday night, Sloan performed at Dickens Pub in Calgary, where they brought up Kids In The Hall co-founder Dave Foley onstage for the final two encore songs: “Underwhelmed” (from 1992’s Sme...

Sloan are releasing a new album, Steady, in just about a month’s time. The Canadian band has shared “Spend The Day” and “Scratch The Surface” from it so far, and today they’re back with another single, the punchy “Magical Thinking.

Canadian power-pop greats Sloan announced their new album Steady last month. At the same time, they released lead single “Spend The Day.” Today they’re back with single #2. The alternately crunchy and jangly “Scratch The Surface” would sound great on FM rock radio at the height of Cheap Trick, al...

Canadian indie-rock standbys Sloan very recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Smeared, and now they’ve announced their 13th album, Steady, coming October 21. Along with the news is a power-popping lead single, “Spend The Day.” “They say if you want to go fast go alone but if you wa...

Twenty years ago this Saturday, Pete Yorn released his debut album, musicforthemorningafter. Do you remember that album? The singles are fire. The deep cuts are solid. Inspired by power-pop acts like Sloan and in step with metropolitan roots-rockers like Ryan Adams, Yorn put together a sleek collection of radio-friendly rockers with a slight twa...