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Upcoming Canadian Album Releases: Spencer Burton, MacKenzie Porter & More

Artists who recently announced new albums include Dana Gavanski, Loreena McKennitt and Dan Boeckner.

Spencer Burton

Spencer Burton

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January

18: Monowhales, Who's There to Hear Me Out

19: Hot Garbage, Precious Dream (Mothland)


19: EKKSTACY, S/T (Dine Alone Records)

19: PACKS, Melt The Honey

26: Felix Tellier Pouliot, Hometown Zero

26: Spencer Burton, North Wind (Dine Alone)

26: Andrew Morrison, Euphemisms (Aakuluk Records)

26: Rene Huard, Blues Calling

29: Lori Yates, Matador

February

1: NYSSA, Shake Me Where I’m Foolish (Six Shooter)

2: High Valley, Small Town Somethin’

2: Talia Schlanger, Grace For The Going (Latent Recordings)

2: Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, Tidal Currents: East Meets West (Chronograph Records)

2: C. Diab, Imerro

2: Vera Sola, Peacemaker (City Slang)

7: Benjamin Russell, Pleasure Center (TCBE Records)

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9: Allen Dobb, Alone Together

9: Alan Doyle, Welcome Home

9: Andrea Superstein, Oh Mother

9: Duane “D.O.” Gibson, Songs of Freedom

9: The Strumbellas, Part Time Believer

9: Eve Parker Finley, In The End

9: The Dead South, Chains & Stakes (Six Shooter)

9: Nick Schofield, Ambient Ensemble (Backward Music

9: Oh Caroline, Monochrome LP (Friends of Friends)

9: Allen Dobb, Alone Together

9: Ducks Ltd., Harm's Way

16: Will Régnier - Traces

16: Chromeo, Adult Contemporary

16: Steve Maddock, Jack Of All Trades

16: The Once, Out Here

16: Mother Mother, Grief Chapter

16: Robert Priest, People Like You And Me (Vesuvius Music)

23: Philip Sayce,The Wolves are Coming (Atomic Gemini / Forty Below Records)

23: Stan Rogers, Stan Rogers - Songs of a Lifetime vinyl box set (Borealis Records)

23: Fucked Up, The Chemistry of Common Life (15th Anniversary Edition Clear Orange 2LP) (Matador)

23: Corb Lund, El Viejo (New West)

23: Moonshine, Noir Fever Presente: Moonshine & LA Federation Internationale du Bruit

23: Excuse Me, The Light

23: Shaina Hayes, Kindergarten Heart (Bonsound)

23: Allie X, Girl With No Face

23: Elephant Stone, Back Into The Dream

23: Royal Tusk, Altruistic (MNRK Music Group)

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27: David Vertesi, Fictionalized(Tiny Kingdom)

March

1: The Look Out Service, The Gambit

1: Dead Root Revival,The Controller's Exam

1: Rik Emmett, Diamonds – The Best of the Hard Rock Years 1990 – 1995 (Music In Motion Ent)

1: Flore Laurentienne, 8 tableaux (Secret City Records)

1: Musebots & Arne Eigenfeldt, A Walk To Meyton (Redshift Records)

1: Daniel Romano's Outfit - Too Hot To Sleep

8: Loreena McKennitt, The Road Back Home (Quinlan Road)

8: Irene Torres, S/T ((Vesuvius Music)

8: Erika Angell - The Obsession With Her Voice

8: Virginia to Vegas, The Greatest Hits

15: Daniel Boeckner, Boeckner! (Sub Pop)

15: Comeback Kid, Trouble (New Damage Records)

15: JJ Shiplett, A Way Through Time (courtesy of Red Buffalo Records)

22: Alexandra Lost, Smoke

22: Parlour Panther, Bloom (Coax Records)

22: Loony, Loony

29: Sum 41, Heaven :x: Hell (Rise Records)

April

1: George Crotty, Inner Nature

5: Dana Gavanski, Late Slap (Full Time Hobby)

10: Mawzy, Long View

12: Classified, Luke's View (HalfLife Records & Big Story Entertainment)

19: Michael Feuerstack, Eternity Mongers ( Forward Music)

19: Kellie Loder, Transitions

26: Ellis, No Place That Feels Like

26: Corridor, Mimi (Bonsound)

26: MacKenzie Porter, Nobody's Born With A Broken Heart (Big Loud Records)

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30: Music For Goats, The Dagg Sessions

May

3: Clever Hopes, New Kind of Familiar

17: Alana Yorke, Destroyer (Paper Bag Records)

17: Major Love, Live, Laugh, Major Love (Slow Weather)

17: Ghostly Kisses, Darkroom

24: David Myles, Devil Talking (Little Tiny Records / turtlemusik)

24: Wyatt C. Louis - Chandler (Royal Mountain Records)

June

21: Celeigh Cardinal, Boundless Possibilities

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Chappell Roan at the 67th GRAMMY Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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Chappell Roan at the 67th GRAMMY Awards held at the Crypto.com Arena on February 2, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
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