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Featured New Tracks

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Featured New Tracks

By FYI Staff

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J. Mann is a folk-accented Toronto singer/songwriter who recently released Ten Animals, his first solo album in a decade. It was recorded in Toronto, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, and it features extensive contributions from Grammy award-winning engineer, producer and musician Inaam Haq. The first single is “Help Us Get It Right." 

Peter Drucker is an emerging indie pop singer/songwriter from Montreal. He has just released a new track, "Telescope" (below), and is now working on a second EP, “Good. Morning." 

Trope is a Vancouver based Alt meets prog rock band that has recorded a debut album, Eleutheromania. It was engineered by Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica) and mixed by David Bottrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel) mixing. Here's a video for the debut single, "Lambs." 

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Katie McBride is a Toronto based synth-pop artist and producer. Her new single, 'N.B.S.L.', has just been released by UK label Limited Health and will appear on an EP coming out on July 27th. Assisting in the recording and mixing are Matty of Babadnotgood and Joe Manzoli of Ginla.

Eclecticus is a five-piece rock band from Toronto, Canada, fronted by singer-songwriters Gar Reid and Tiina LeMay. A new album, So Illogical, was produced, mixed, and mastered by Jono Grant. 

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Cameron Whitcomb at LASSO Festival in Montreal on August 16, 2026.
Lucas Domínguez / Billboard Canada

Cameron Whitcomb at LASSO Festival in Montreal on August 16, 2026.

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Montreal's LASSO Festival Grows Rapidly Alongside Canada's Country Music Scene

The country music sister festival to Osheaga ran its fifth edition on August 15 and 16, drawing over 43,000 fans to Parc Jean-Drapeau for Mumford & Sons, Thomas Rhett, Cameron Whitcomb, Carly Pearce and more. Evenko's Nick Farkas explains how the festival turned an untapped market into a successful large-scale event that continues to grow throughout Canada.

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It's not everyday that Montreal's public transit is filled with cowboy hats, Canadian tuxedos and Western belt buckles. Now, that's a yearly mid-August tradition for country music lovers as LASSO celebrates its fifth edition.

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