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News Beck Gets Dave Grohl, Tenacious D for Impromptu Yacht Rock Supergroup Beck doesn't want to live with any more regrets like his denial of "Weird Al" Yankovic's "Loser" parody. Thusly, the hat-loving musician did...
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News POP Montreal Reveals Complete 2022 Lineup with Witch Prophet, Tess Roby, OMBIIGIZI Nearly a month out from their 2022 edition, organizers behind POP Montreal have unveiled the complete lineup for this year's event. Foll...
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News UK Rapper Aitch Apologizes for Painting Over Ian Curtis Mural for an Ad UK rapper Aitch has apologized for covering up an iconic mural of Ian Curtis in Manchester with an ad for his new album. The mural advert...
News T.I. Accused of Punching One of the Chainsmokers for Kissing Him on the Cheek T.I., the rapper now best known for imparting his ignorance — medical, societal, parental and otherwise — with "hymen gate" nearly three yea...
News QOTSA's Dean Fertita Details Debut Solo Album 'Tropical Gothclub' Member of both Queens of the Stone Age and the Dead Weather, Dean Fertita, has announced his debut solo album Tropical Gothclub, arriving No...
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News Bill Callahan Announces New Album 'YTI⅃AƎЯ,' 2022 Tour Dates Bill Callahan has detailed a new studio album. Titled YTI⅃AEЯ — "reality" spelled backwards — the American singer-songwriter's latest arrive...
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News Florence Pugh Wants Harry Styles Fans to Go to Horny Jail Olivia Wilde's reported boyf Harry Styles has been the talk of 2022, having unleashed Harry's House and its ensuing tour on the world — not...
News Willie Nelson, Allison Russell, Steve Earle, Margo Price Contribute to Billy Joe Shaver Tribute Album A host of country music greats have come together on a new album honouring the work of late outlaw country singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shave...
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News Ruby Singh and the Future Ancestors Detail Self-Titled Debut, Share Liberatory "Dog Bone" Vancouver-based multi-visionary musician Ruby Singh has assembled a new musical supergroup to kick up some stardust. Ruby Singh and the Futu...
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News Michelle Branch and Patrick Carney Are Getting Divorced After being arrested for domestic assault last week, Michelle Branch has filed for divorce from her husband Patrick Carney of the Black Keys...
News Maestro Fresh Wes Announces Scarborough Town Centre Event As the first hip-hop artist inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Maestro Fresh Wes hasn't forgotten his roots. That's why th...
News Everything's Made to be Broken, but Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" Has Surpassed One Billion Streams Most people aren't brave enough to admit that Goo Goo Dolls have always slapped; you don't want the world to see you, you don't think that t...
Streams PONY Bares All on New Single "Peach" Hot on the heels (er, hooves?) of June single "Did It Again," Toronto's PONY is back with another sweet new slice, "Peach." The power pop...
Streams Sloan Go Crate-Digging for Gold in the Video for "Scratch the Surface" Sloan have shared their attempt at making the most Torontonian music video ever with "Scratch the Surface" — the second single from the loca...
Streams Watch Amy Lee Join Korn Onstage for "Freak on a Leash" Performance The Woodstock '99 vibes in the air following the release of Netflix's new docuseries might not be the warmest or fuzziest, but it's certainl...
Streams Maya Hawke Extracts Saccharine New Single "Sweet Tooth" Open wide: our September 2022 cover star (and venerable ice cream-scooping lesbian Robin on Stranger Things) Maya Hawke has shared something...
Streams Alexisonfire Unleash New "Mistaken Information" Video After delivering fifth studio album Otherness back in June via Dine Alone Records, Alexisonfire have returned with a new visual effort to ac...
Streams Listen to Lou Reed's Previously Unreleased "Men of Good Fortune" Demo Archival material of the late Lou Reed continues to be unearthed for Light in the Attic's Words & Music, May 1965 (the inaugural instalment...
Streams Watch Silk Sonic Cover Papa Roach's "Last Resort" Live in Vegas Following their residency performance at Park MGM in Las Vegas last night (August 14), Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's Grammy-winning, bewig...
Streams Jessie Reyez Teases New Album with "Mutual Friend" The billboards don't lie: Jessie Reyez is still at work on a new album, and the Toronto artist has now teased what's to come from sophomore...
Streams Check Out the Trailer for Tegan and Sara's 'High School' Series Tegan and Sara's High School — a new series based on the duo's memoir of the same name — is set to make its world premiere at TIFF next mont...
Streams M.I.A. Shares New Song "Popular" M.I.A. has shared a video for her new song "Popular," the latest taste of her forthcoming album MATA, which she announced back in May. MA...
Streams 'Stranger Things' Actor Jamie Campbell Bower Just Dropped an Outlaw Country Song Joining his Stranger Things co-stars Joe Keery (Djo) and recent Exclaim! cover star Maya Hawke in segueing to musical ventures, Jamie Campbe...
Streams Braids Share New Nine-Minute Single "Retriever" Braids make a grand return today with new nine-minute single "Retriever," which the band describes as a "journey track, simple in its sentim...
Streams Members of Stars and Young Galaxy Share New Single as TFD Torquil Campbell of Stars and Stephen Ramsay of Young Galaxy have shared a new single as TFD (TOTAL FUCKING DARKNESS). The duo's new project...
Streams Listen to Two New Four Tet Tracks Four Tet's Kieran Hebden is continuing on his path of releasing loose singles, adding new tracks "Mango Feedback" and "Watersynth" to his re...
Streams Blondie Share Unearthed 1978 Demo "Mr. Sightseer" Blondie are set to release a box set collection — spanning their first six studio albums — called Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982 on Aug...
Streams Clairmont The Second Returns with New EP 'Full Circle' Clairmont The Second has delivered a new EP. You can hear the Toronto artist's fresh Full Circle in the player below. Arriving today via...
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Streams St. Vincent Shares Groovy Cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" on 'Colbert' During her musical residency on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, St. Vincent snuck in a cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" — rec...
Streams John Cale Shares David Bowie-Inspired New Single "Night Crawling" John Cale has shared a new video for "Night Crawling" — his first new single since 2020's "Lazy Day" — written about hanging out in New York...
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Reviews Nate Husser's Magnetic Personality Powers His Work to an 'All Time High' In 2022, you would be hard-pressed to find a Montreal artist as beloved by the city as Little Burgundy's own Nate Husser. Starting his caree...
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Reviews Manifesto Festival's Sweet 16 Was a Fitting Celebration of Their Devotion to Community — Headliner Drama Be Damned Budweiser Stage, August 12 Following a rough weekend for events in Toronto, Manifesto delivered a successful festival, despite it not being the show they initially pro...
Reviews Orville Peck Solidified His Mythology at Toronto Homecoming Massey Hall, August 9 Orville Peck's first of two performances at Toronto's Massey Hall was a homecoming of sorts: while the masked cowboy originally hails from J...
Reviews Danger Mouse & Black Thought Punch In the 'Cheat Codes' for Hip-Hop Harmony With all the tools — a reputation as an all-time great wordsmith and daily visibility on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon included — t...
Reviews On 'Reset,' Panda Bear and Sonic Boom Map New Paths with Old Sounds For over 20 years, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has been known primarily for his work with experimental indie act Animal Collective, anch...
Reviews Armand Hammer Engrossed Vancouver with Nothing but Their Beats and Rhymes Fortune Sound Club, August 7 Armand Hammer, the New York City hip-hop duo of Billy Woods and ELUCID, are having an incredible year — which is surprising, considering the...
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Reviews Osheaga 2022 Brought the Best in the World to Montreal After last year's scaled-down, all-Canadian Get Together, Osheaga was back in full force for the first time since 2019. At the Montreal fest...
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Reviews Drake and the All Canadian North Stars Pulled Out All the Stops to Honour Toronto's Hip-Hop and R&B History History, July 28 OVO Fest seems like an insidious inside joke between Drake and the City of Toronto to see how many days each year they can convince Toronton...
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Reviews Tallies Craft a Vision of Dream Pop All Their Own on 'Patina' Upon first impression, it would be easy to dismiss Tallies' sophomore album Patina for leaning a little too hard into early '90s 4AD cosplay...
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