Best of 2025

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Best of 2025 - Live Shows
Best of 2025 - Live Shows

Live shows are the heartbeat of the Canadian music scene, and over here at Cups N Cakes, we’re always a little bit sad that we don’t get to do as much coverage of live events as we’d like to. We’ve decided to change that: for the first time, we’re including a “Best Live Show” category in our year-end coverage. We asked our volunteers to pick their top 1-3 live shows of the year, and tell us what made it great.

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Best of 2025 - EPs
Best of 2025 - EPs

Our Best of 2025 coverage continues today with a look at our favourite EPs released this year. The team ended up picking 24 different EPs from coast to coast that feature a wide-range sounds and styles. Check em out!

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News
Release Premiere: Smashed Glass - Wet Cement
Kennedy Pawluk, Smashed Glass, Wet Cement, Premiere, Vancouver, Punk, Noise-punk, Post-punk, Dead Fibres, Brass
Release Premiere: Smashed Glass - Wet Cement
Kennedy Pawluk, Smashed Glass, Wet Cement, Premiere, Vancouver, Punk, Noise-punk, Post-punk, Dead Fibres, Brass

We are very excited to deliver an advance premiere of Wet Cement from Smashed Glass, the debut EP from the new project of Kennedy Pawluk.

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Kennedy Pawluk, Smashed Glass, Wet Cement, Premiere, Vancouver, Punk, Noise-punk, Post-punk, Dead Fibres, Brass
Reviews
POP POP VERNAC - A SENSE OF HUMAN
Ned Kroczynski
POP POP VERNAC - A SENSE OF HUMAN
Ned Kroczynski

Pop Pop Vernac’s newest EP, A Sense of Human, is what you remember the morning after your 18th birthday: a few songs, lots of yelling, and a good fuckin’ time.

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Ned Kroczynski
Featured
Lex Leosis, Oranje, SHY FRiEND, and Planet Giza
quick picks, review, album, Cups N Cakes, Cups and Cakes, Tea Fannie
Lex Leosis, Oranje, SHY FRiEND, and Planet Giza
quick picks, review, album, Cups N Cakes, Cups and Cakes, Tea Fannie

Tea Fannie writes about four new releases in this week’s Quick Picks column.

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quick picks, review, album, Cups N Cakes, Cups and Cakes, Tea Fannie

Release Calendar

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Upcoming Canadian Releases
Upcoming Canadian Releases

An ongoing list of all the upcoming Canadian releases that we know about.

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Featured
Best of 2025 - Live Shows
best of 2025
Best of 2025 - Live Shows
best of 2025

Live shows are the heartbeat of the Canadian music scene, and over here at Cups N Cakes, we’re always a little bit sad that we don’t get to do as much coverage of live events as we’d like to. We’ve decided to change that: for the first time, we’re including a “Best Live Show” category in our year-end coverage. We asked our volunteers to pick their top 1-3 live shows of the year, and tell us what made it great.

Read More →
best of 2025

Pick of the Week

Home Front - Watch It Die

“Edmonton synth-punk band Home Front return with their most original release to date. Watch It Die still channels the 80s but a modern edge has creeped into their songs.”

- Jeff MacCallum