New & Upcoming Canadian Releases: Long-Running Bands The Dears, Finger Eleven and Alexisonfire Release New Projects

We're back with another calendar of new and upcoming Canadian album releases.

Long-running Canadian rock band Finger Eleven recently joined the Better Noise Music label, and they're dropping Last Night on Earth, their first new album in over a decade. Their comeback is already successful, with their song "Blue Sky Mystery," featuring fellow alt-rock veterans, currently sitting at No. 6 in its 13th week on the Billboard Canada Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. The band also crossed one billion streams last year.

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Veteran Montreal indie rock favourites The Dears have just released their ninth studio album, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!. Their first full-length since 2020’s Lovers Rock, its over-arching theme is self-described as "questioning, and then celebrating this fleeting time spent on earth. The ups, the downs, the in betweens." The band begins a Canadian tour on Nov. 20, followed by European and U.K. dates. Tickets and info here. This new video was co-directed by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene.

Canadian hardcore heroes Alexisonfire pay homage to their CanRock forebears on their new EP, Copies of Old Masters Volume 1. It comprises reimagined versions of songs from much-loved '90s Canadian bands The Tragically Hip, Doughboys, Shallow North Dakota and Rusty. Vocalist

George Pettit explains its origins this way: "This is like one of those things where you come up with the idea, you say it out loud and then you never do it. Well, we did it. You can imagine Alexisonfire sitting around backstage with a bluetooth speaker playing all of our favourite '90s CanCon songs and someone saying, ‘we should do a record of Canadian '90s covers’. For most people it would probably end there. Lucky for you, Alexisonfire isn’t ‘most people’. We love fun."

Fast-rising Vancouver pop singer-songwriter Jade LeMac has just put out a new EP, It's Always At Night. Last month, its lead single, "Running Home,” debuted on the Billboard Canada Hot AC Airplay chart. LeMac describes the EP as featuring "songs for so many emotions — heartbreak, desire, love and lust. Each song is its own story about the different ways I’ve felt while being in love with someone.”

Also out with new work this week are Juno and Grammy-winning Cuban-Canadian artist Alex Cuba, with Indole, jazz-rock legends Lighthouse, with an anniversary edition of One Fine Morning, B.C. indie rockers Hotel Mira, with The After Party, acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter Katz, with Everything Unfolding, Cree cellist/composer instrumentalist Cris Derksen, with The Visit, multi-platinum selling pop act Virginia to Vegas (Derik Baker) and highly-touted duo Duke & Goldie release Romance & Ramblin’.

Here is a full calendar of new releases.

October

29: Evan Redsky, The Language of Fishermen

30: Rich Aucoin, SYNTHETIC Season 4 (We Are Busy Bodies)

31: Shad, Start Anew (Secret City Records)

31: The Boojums, The Boojums (Having Fun Records / We Are Busy Bodies)

November

1: SHEBAD, Music is the Answer (Stripped)

1: Scarlet Fever, Girl with Shank

3: His His, '25 (Victory Pool)

3: The Mendozaz, The Completely Fictional History of This Great Nation of Canada

4: Jennarie, Never Been Small

4: Paitra, A Universal Feeling

6: Cris Derksen, The Visit

6: Hotel Mira, The After Party (604 Records)

7: Jade Lemac, It's Always At Night (Warner Music Canada)

7: The Dears, Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful! Life Is Beautiful!, (Next Door Records)

7: Crasher, Odditi Populaire (Mothland)

7: Optikz, The Optikz EP

7: Alexisonfire, Copies of Old Masters Volume 1

7: Duke & Goldie, Romance & Ramblin’

7: Days of Lavender, Already Everywhere

7: Niall Mutter, Silver

7: Noah Franche-Nolan, Rose-Anna (Cellar Music)

7: Finger Eleven, Last Night On Earth

7: Virginia to Vegas, an examination of it all

7: Lorraine Leckie, Goddamn Outer Space

7: Jets Overhead, Ordinary Dreamers - Rarities and Demos, Vol. 1

7: Lighthouse, One Fine Morning - Anniversary Edition

7: Aretha Tillotson, Kinda Out West

7: Alex Cuba, Indole

7: Eliana Cuevas & Jorge Glem, Mi Pequeña

7: Crasher, Odditi Populaire

7: Peter Katz, Everything Unfolding

7: The Hunter Brothers, All Kinds of Country (Open Road Recordings)

11: KeAloha, My Book of Prayers

12: Eddie Schwartz, Film School

12: Rise Carmine, Come In Closer (Paper Bag Records)

13: Magella, The Pearl

14: Odonis Odonis, S/T ( Royal Mountain Records)

14: Austra, Chin Up Buttercup (Pink Fizz/Domino)

14: Yves Jarvis, All Cylinders (Deluxe) (In Next Door Records)

14: The Bros. Landreth, Dog Ear

14: Hélène Barbier, Panorama ( Bonsound)

14: Gaspard Eden, Crooked Lines (Coyote Records)

14: Tim Brady, For Electric Guitar (People Places Records),

14: Nicholas Craven Criminally Attached (Roc Nation)

14: Colter Wall, Memories And Empties Memories and Empties (La Honda Records)

14: Old Man Luedecke, She Told Me Where To Go (Deluxe edition) (Outside Music)

14: Men Without Hats, On the Moon

21: Raj Ramayya, Spice Oddity (Hopeful Tragedy Records)

21: Boutique Feelings, Shwaya, Shywya (Mothland)

21: Limblifter, I/O -vinyl reissue (Record Record Label )

21: Jill Barber, A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas (Outside Music)

21: Odds, Nest -vinyl reissue (Record Record Label )

21: Sam Salmon & the Grand Manan Bandits, Down For Life (Forward Music/Big Turnips)

21: Just Jillian, Story of Mine

21: Rheostatics, The Great Lakes Suite (Cordova Bay)

21: Anna Pidgorna,Invented Folksongs (Redshift Records)

21: Ruby Singh & The Future Ancestors, Celestial Libations

21: TUSH, Heavy Weather

27: David Vertesi, Cardiography - Anniversary Acoustic Edition (Tiny Kingdom Music)

December

1: The Jellyfish, S/T

26: Sean Stephens, Lest I Remember

January 2026

9: Calling All Captains, The Things That I’ve Lost Out (New Damage Records)

23: Jo Passed, Away (Youth Riot Records)

23: Dana Sipos, Golden Molten

30: Softcult, When A Flower Doesn’t Grow (Easy Life Records)

30: Gab Bouchard, Encore

30: New Saint, Santo

February

6: Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Laughter In Summer (Transgressive)

6: Nick Schofield, Blue Hour (Backward Music)

13: Boy Golden, Best of Our Possible Lives (Six Shooter Records)

27: Bibi Club, Amaro (Secret City)

27: Garrett T. Willie, Bill's Cafe

March

19: Gnarwhal, Lucid Machines

20: Edwin Raphael, I Know A Garden