Arts

As Sleater-Kinney releases a new live album, Michael Barclay looks at what makes the best ones so good—and why they’ve largely grown obsolete

Four years after their breakout album, Vancouver rock duo Japandroids are back to strike a chord for their stratifying city

Measha Brueggergosman —no stranger to challenging opera’s conservative instincts—digs into her own history with her new album, ’Songs of Freedom’

The xx became adored for their intimate sound. What will happen when they loudly shift away from their defining quiet?

While the data does suggest 2016 was an outlier, there are plenty of reasons big-name deaths will only continue in the years ahead

What the final efforts of David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and 2016’s many departed stars tell us about how to live

The albums, books, movies and more than went under the radar in the year that was

Having rented its name from the famous Paris landmark, the Louvre Abu Dhabi will open after a long wait and plenty of controversy

Maclean’s music critics name their favourite albums of 2016 and highlight the Canadian artists that mattered this year

Exactly one hundred years after his mysterious death, a Twitter account will trace his last days