LARKK SHARES SHADOWY NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

DANIELLE MCTAGGART’S (DEAR ROUGE) DEBUT LP AS LARKK, CINDERS, OUT FEBRUARY 13, 2026

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“Cinders is an intensely personal, piano-driven exercise in vulnerability. The instrument and the artist's voice are the foundational bedrock, as McTaggart casts aside the electrifying fringe- and sparkle-laden trappings of rock 'n' roll to transform before our very eyes and reintroduce herself without artifice.” Exclaim!, 2026 Most Anticipated Albums

CANADIAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE FEBRUARY 19, MORE PERFORMANCES TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON

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Today, Larkk shares another new single from her upcoming debut album, Cinders, out February 13, 2026. Larkk is Danielle McTaggart (Dear Rouge) in a new form, born from her desire for deeper artistic exploration. Following recent singles “Devastation’ Bliss”, “Caverns”, and “First Kiss” and a sold out Vancouver performance in November, “Cuckoo” pulls you into a shadowy dreamworld—moody, mysterious, and awash in cinematic depth. It unfolds like a spiritual vision, rising into a beautiful storm of strings and orchestral colour. A bold step in McTaggart’s transformation, “Cuckoo” transcends genre to offer a sound that feelsotherworldly—haunting, poetic, and profoundly transportive.

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MORE ABOUT LARKK
Danielle McTaggart is an artist in transformation. Best known as the powerhouse voice behind the JUNO Award-winning duo Dear Rouge, she has spent years captivating audiences with electrifying performances and chart-topping hits. Now, Danielle McTaggart has stepped forward as Larkk — a transformation that embraces intimacy and introspection, trading the high-energy pulse of indie rock for raw, poetic vulnerability.

After years of touring with acclaimed acts like Metric, Phantogram, and The Beaches, she felt a pull to connect on a more personal level — with herself and with listeners. 

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For Larkk, this music exists in the space between the past and the future - an evolution of both sound and spirit. It’s more than a new chapter; it’s the creation of an entirely new language of storytelling. Larkk weaves together music, movement, painting, poetry, and expansive artistic expression — each element intertwining to capture the beauty and ache of being human. It’s a deeply immersive world where emotion drives form, and vulnerability becomes a powerful source of connection.

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CINDERS TRACKLIST
01 Cinders
02 First Kiss
03 Share Of Dreams
04 Cuckoo
05 Caverns
06 Interlude
07 Devastation’s Bliss
08 The Moon The Bed
09 Oceans (reprise)
10 Stars Ain’t Colliding

LARKK ON TOUR
February 19 - Calgary, AB - Lantern Theatre
February 20 - Sherwood Park, AB - Festival Place (w/ Dear Rouge)
March 05 - Chilliwack, BC - Chilliwack Cultural Centre

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WINTERSLEEP SHARES “STRANGER NOW” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM, WISHING MOON

WINTERSLEEP RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM, WISHING MOON, OUT MARCH 27, 2026 VIA DINE ALONE RECORDS

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2026 U.K. & EUROPEAN TOUR DATES COMMENCE APRIL 10, CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN ON MAY 9. TICKETS ON SALE NOW - FULL DATES BELOW

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Today, Wintersleep are sharing the second single from their upcoming album, Wishing Moon, their eighth full-length album and first record since 2019’s In The Land Of. It’s no easy thing to sustain a band for more than 20 years. To come together and nurture an artistic project across two decades is a statement of belief: in oneself, in one’s bandmates, in the profound connections produced by the creative process, and in the richness of the world around us—since all art is a result of having noticed what it feels like to live here, and the drive to make sense of that feeling. 

Canadian indie-rock veterans Wintersleep belong to this group of artists. At this stage in their career, the celebrated band’s five members—principal vocalist and guitarist Paul Murphy, guitarist Tim D’Eon, keyboardist Jon Samuel, bassist Chris Bell, and drummer Loel Campbell—are possessed of a deep gratitude and humility that accompany any creatives who get to make a life-long go of making art with the people they love. But there are still wonderful mysteries and shadowy corners of experience that they have yet to uncover.

“Stranger Now” sets “the thematic lyrical tone for the album—touching on ideas of the ‘super-powers,’ we all have within us, the things inside you that you know are there but sometimes need the right tools, people, or moment to access,” says Murphy. 

“This song was a joy to make,” explains Murphy. “The first in the demo batch that felt like a real progression from our last record and like the beginning of something new. It started with this killer, quintessentially-Tim riff. Loel had an amazing beat and production vision for it. I wrote the first verse melody and lyrics and the pre-chorus and chorus came pretty immediately after that. One of those guitar parts that you could sing a lot of different things over because it has so much to it harmonically.”

The band has also shared a visualizer for “Stranger Now” directed by boy wonder and featuring Tony Morrone. “Tony is an actual videographer, from a different generation who I really like,” says boy wonder. “I wanted to make a video about a day in the life of Tony, as if he were me, a guy making indie music videos on the streets. Tony is me and I am Tony!”

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MORE ABOUT WISHING MOON
Recorded at producer Nicolas Vernhes’ (The War on Drugs, Spoon) studio in the Mojave Desert near Pioneertown, the collection of 12 songs evidences a renewed vitality and energy: The band’s branches of prog-, indie-, folk-, and alternative-rock are in full bloom, stretching skyward with grateful, open, curious hearts. 

Wishing Moon crackles with the energy of that sort of reinvigoration. The opening title track throbs with a Wurlitzer electric piano before bass and drums set off at a steady clip, setting a dreamy kraut-rock scene that builds, slowly, to a crescendo of hammered keys and soaring guitars while Murphy cries on the chorus: ‘Temperamental, I’m alive, I’m alone/Transcendental, I’m alive, I’m alone’. “Stranger Now” follows, with heavy desert-rock chording and sand-smoothed fuzz leads. (D’Eon attributes the record’s atmosphere and macabre grooves to the Mojave, famously channeled in the ominous, titanic riffing of bands like Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age.) “The band’s always at its strongest when there’s a fundamental groove that’s rolling along,” remarks Campbell. “I just felt a natural gravitation when we got into the room, like this propulsion and relentlessness. There’s a certain meditation within the grooves.”

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“Wait for the Tide” recalls pre-Wintersleep days, even, when Murphy and D’Eon created post-hardcore and prog-rock chaos in their high school band Kary. “My Mind Always” centers on a hypnotic, off-kilter acoustic riff, an unsettling, stoned sway of a love song. “Abyss” is an alt-rock endtimes anthem, feeling like it’s ready to pull apart at the seams at any moment despite its major-key gallop: ‘We’re living in the abyss now/In the life affirming bliss!’ Murphy sings. 

For Murphy, the record demonstrates a band that still takes chances. “We wanted to shake it up and do something more challenging,” he explains. That desire is partly why they chose to work with Vernhes, a producer they’d never created with. “We needed that energy of not knowing,” he continues. “I remember thinking that it should be uncomfortable, because it’s like getting in touch with who you are again, individually and as a group. Songs are really intimate things, and getting a song right on a record is a really intimate process. I think of collaboration with producers as a mirror, and felt especially in this case, it revealed a lot. Most importantly, I think Wishing Moon just has this living, breathing quality.”

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WINTERSLEEP ON TOUR
Friday, April 10, 26 Newcastle, UK - Little Buidings
Saturday, April 11, 26 Glasgow, UK - King Tuts
Sunday, April 12, 26 Manchester, UK - Deaf Institute
Monday, April 13, 26 Birmingham, UK - Hare & Hounds
Tuesday, April 14, 26 London, UK - The Lower Third
Thursday, April 16, 26 Paris, FR - Supersonic
Saturday, April 18, 26 Amsterdam, NL - Upstairs @ Paradiso
Sunday, April 19, 26 Cologne, DE - Garagen
Tuesday, April 21, 26 Hamburg, DE - Molotow
Thursday, April 23, 26 Berlin, DE - Mikropol
Saturday, April 25, 26 Zurich, CH - Bogen F

Saturday, May 9, 26 Saint John, NB Imperial Theatre
Sunday, May 10, 26 Moncton, NB Capitol Theatre
Monday, May 11, 26 Fredericton, NB The Playhouse
Thursday, May 14, 26 Windsor, NS Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia
Saturday, May 16, 26 Halifax, NS Marquee Ballroom
Thursday, June 4, 26 Victoria, BC Capitol Ballroom
Saturday, June 6, 26 Vancouver, BC Hollywood Theatre
Sunday, June 7, 26 Kelowna, BC Revelry Food + Music Hub
Wednesday, June 10, 26 Edmonton, AB The Starlite Room
Thursday, June 11, 26 Calgary, AB The Palace Theatre
Friday, June 12, 26 Saskatoon, SK The Capitol Music Club
Saturday, June 13, 26 Winnipeg, MB Park Theatre
Wednesday, June 17, 26 London, ON London Music Hall
Thursday, June 18, 26 Hamilton, ON Bridgeworks
Friday, June 19, 26 Toronto, ON Masonic Temple - The Concert Hall
Saturday, June 20, 26 Ottawa, ON The Bronson

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WISHING MOON TRACKLIST
01 Wishing Moon
02 Stranger Now
03 I Got A Feeling
04 Wait For The Tide
05 My Mind Always
06 Gale
07 After You
08 Abyss
09 Redrawn
10 You & I
11 All Eyes
12 Like A God

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STATUS/NON-STATUS ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, BIG CHANGES, SHARES “AT ALL”

STATUS/NON-STATUS NEW ALBUM, BIG CHANGES, DUE OUT MARCH 6, 2026 VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS

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Today, Status/Non-Status is announcing their new album, Big Changes, which, at its core, is an act of community-building. Though its songs focus on reckoning, reflection, and resistance, the album derives its strength from the people who contributed to its creation. 

Over the years, Anishinaabe musician and artist Adam Sturgeon has undergone a metamorphosis, shedding old monikers and reclaiming heritage. In 2021, the collective formerly known as WHOOP-Szo became Status/Non-Status as part of Sturgeon’s ongoing exploration of the complex roots of his family history. Together with Zoon’s Daniel Monkman (who makes a guest appearance on Big Changes), Sturgeon introduced the world to OMBIIGIZI in 2022 via their Polaris Music Prize shortlisted record Sewn Back Together. Regardless of which project Sturgeon is working on, though, the one thing that doesn’t change is how he treats it: like family, protecting it at all costs. Every reinvention, every reckoning, every return leads back to the same role: provider, protector, father.

Alongside Sturgeon, there is a host of both long-time and new collaborators and friends—like Eric Lourenco, Jessica O’Neil, and Kirsten Kurvink Palm—as well as an extended circle of artists (including Steven Lourenco and Sunnsetter’s Andrew MacLeod) expanding Status/Non-Status into an every growing collective of artists that embodies the push and pull that animates the album itself: the tension between consistency and change and living in solitude and solidarity. 

Big Changes is about survival, but also about making connections in order to endure. It is the big noise we make together when the world feels like it’s falling apart, and the harmony that comes when we keep time with one another.

The album’s crunchy first single, “At All” featuring contributions from Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene) and Zoon, is a “self explanatory examination,” says Sturgeon. “I was starting to feel really disillusioned at the time of writing this song. Confused about the state of music and the complex world we are living in; the grind to make each day work. I decided to disappear, bunker down at home, stay in, write songs about it and invite my friends over to visit and play along. I wrote over 40 songs and this was one of the first to come out of me."

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Big Changes comes from living through what Sturgeon describes as “a war on people and their ways of being” while engaging in the everyday domesticity of dropping the kids off at daycare, heading into work, doing chores around the house, and figuring out how to survive “what is beginning to feel like a real apocalypse.” Inspired by his in-the-moment work with OMBIIGIZI, and with over 40 rough song ideas on hand, Sturgeon recruited Dean Nelson (Beck, Thurston Moore, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks) and Matthew Wiewel (of Deadpan Studios and engineer of Status/Non-Status’ previous album, Surely Travel) to build a home studio in the old church he lives in with his family in London, Ontario. Everything on Big Changes “Is centralized around our Monday morning recording sessions,” he says, “and this routine of caring for my young family in a disintegrating and tough city.”

For Sturgeon, Big Changes also reflects his lifelong dialogue with duality, a dichotomy “...felt through the contrast of being a mixed person,” who sees “racism perpetuated against people more visible than myself, while also not feeling like I’m Indian enough.” The record tussles with that uneasy and impossible balance of simultaneously walking in two worlds with conflicting values. It’s less a statement of intent than a lived reflection, one that acknowledges tension without resolving it. “I don’t feel conflicted about where I stand, but I’m not sure I’m always seen,” Sturgeon says, adding that, “[on Sewn Back Together, OMBIIGIZI] found balance in the dichotomy of being damaged and using it as a tool to move forward. Big Changes, however, is foreboding and inquisitive about what is to come.”

The song “Big Changes” brings these big ideas and concepts down to street level, reflecting the daily realities of life just outside Sturgeon’s own front door. “This song is about my hood, where I live and raise my family and what I see when I walk out the door,” he says, describing a neighbourhood “mired by gaps in the system” and burdened by housing crises, addiction, and lateral violence. Caught in the crossfire between bureaucratic inaction and a community’s will to survive, “Big Changes” expresses how people are forced into change simply to keep going, whether that change leads somewhere better or somewhere harder doesn’t really matter. What matters is endurance, adaptation, and the resilience to find ways to live with what’s left.

Despite its title, one thing that Big Changes doesn’t mess with is the music. Status/Non-Status hold fast to their intuitive and fluid style, their musicianship grounded in connection, familiarity, and an overarching trust in the power of their glorious noise. If anything, Status/Non-Status is more refined on Big Changes, summoning a sound that’s deliberate while retaining the untamed energy that first inspired them. Crunching guitars clock the daily grind of the nine-to-five on opening track “At All”, while bursts of ’90s indie-rock energy collide with sugar-coated power pop melodies on “Peace Bomb”. Ominous shades of gothic blues hang in the air on the title track, while the yin and yang of male and female harmonies (supplied by Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and Rachel McLean) on “Blown Again” temper abrasion with warmth. On “Basket Weaving”, a collaboration with Odawa poet and artist Colleen “Coco” Collins, contemplative acoustics and ambient synth textures intertwine with anthemic rock flourishes in an exploration of “ancestral experience of reconnection.” The influence of Canadian noise-rock pioneers Eric’s Trip runs like an undercurrent through Big Changes, especially in its community-minded spirit. That lineage comes full circle on the delicate lullaby ballad “Good Enough”, featuring Eric’s Trip Julie Doiron. “Working with Julie Doiron, my teenage hero and favourite bass player,” says Sturgeon, “is something I could only ever dream of. I don’t take accomplishing my dreams for granted,” he adds. “I am just so lucky Julie is such a giving and wonderful community member.”

Read the full album bio by Jim Di Gioia at www.killbeatmuic.com/statusnonstatus

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BIG CHANGES TRACKLIST
01 At All
02 Peace Bomb
03 Big Changes
04 Blown Again
05 Basket Weaving
06 Arnold
07 Good Enough
08 Bones
09 Bitumen Eye’s
10 Bitumen Eye’s II
11 Tom Climate

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