Canadian singer-songwriter, Amelie Lefebvre’s (she goes by Amelie) music is like a stranger hugging you: you don’t have to understand, or know the person doing the hugging to feel the warmth in their embrace. That old cliche about music being universal, that rings true here. All but one song on her debut album, Amelie, is sung in French, a language probably foreign to a lot of people south of the Canadian border. But from the album’s opening track “24 heures” (an acoustic version also closes the disk) your ears tell …

“Come for the breasts. Stay for the heart.”
That’s the tagline to Katie West’s website. Find yourself exploring the site one minute, and an hour later, eyes all bloodshot, mouth still ajar, you’ll see the tagline fitting. West, a photographer from Windsor, Canada is not only not afraid to show either—her breasts or her heart—she’s adept at intertwining the two with an ease that is equally admirable as it is poetic. Through an extensive—and impressive—collection of self-portraits (though not her sole focus, self-portraits are her specialty) you see a gamut of …

In Fall From Grace Lindi Ortega has created what could just be the quintessential album of the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of life as an Indie singer. Chock full of promise that borders at times on brilliance, the album is a testimony to never giving up and never giving in. From the first verse of the album’s opener, “Stumble and Fall”, where Ortega sings, “Lately I’ve been contemplating/Leaving all of this behind/There’s too much worry on my mind/Everyday my heart is breaking/Something’s always on the line/And I’m always racing against …