Toronto has been exporting good artists for many years. Drake emerged a few years ago and conquered the mainstream outside of Canada. The Weeknd has been mysteriously capturing critics with his EPs he released last year, being bundled as the...
It’s not yet the weekend, but that doesn’t mean The Weeknd can’t keep dropping us new tracks. The latest release, following that of Rolling Stone and Wicked Games is Enemy. I see a bit of a theme here – girls...
We recently commented how Toronto’s The Weeknd has gone from mysterious act to having the video cameras literally in his face on his latest video, Rolling Stone. Abel Tesfaye (The Weeknd) is back in front of the cameras again, for...
Toronto’s Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, spent much of 2011 hidden away, while people tried to figure out exactly who was this guy was releasing these great tracks to the Internet. In his new video for Rolling Stone, Abel stares...
Feist Wins 2012 Polaris Prize Last night, Toronto played host to the 2012 Polaris Prize, which recognizes the best Canadian album based on “artistic merit without regard to genre, sales history or label affiliation.” Oh, so this is why Justin...
Main stage headliner: Metric – lots of Canadian content today! 1st cloud coverage of the week: Also, the first precipitation Ottawa has seen since June… all 10 minutes of it. Remarkable weather for the entire festival. Band 1: Today, the first band we...
Drake has announced the acts for his third annual OVO Fest. Rapping at Toronto’s Molson Amphitheatre on August 5 will be another Toronto artist, The Weeknd, as well as A$AP Rocky, and 2 Chainz (via Pitchfork). How’s that for a...
Check Out The Ottawa Bluesfest Lineup July 4-15 will see blues fans (and mainly NON-blues fans) descend on Canada’s capital for the Ottawa Bluesfest (I don’t get paid to report it as the RBC Royal Bank Bluefest, and no one...
Lollapalooza Announces 2012 Line Up – It’s Pretty Good Perry Farrell’s Chicago festival, Lollapalooza, has unveiled their 2012 line up. I’m sort of bummed out that I won’t be heading to Grant Park on August 3-5 (since I have this...
Are Lollapalooza Line Up Hints Popping Up Around Chicago? Some of us like playing detective, trying to sift through hints and clues on the Internet, and then spread these rumours in a game of broken telephone, so that the end...
Osheaga 2012 Line Up Announced for Montreal Festival Osheaga, also known as “The festival with the exact same dates as Chicago’s Lollapalooza”, has announced their line up for this August 3-5. Taking place in Parc Jean-Drapeau in Montreal, the line...
Coachella Announced 2012 Line Up Coachella has established itself as one of the premier music festivals in the United States, if not the world. The festival is in the desert just east of Los Angeles, and features battles against extreme...
The Killers To Release New Album in 2012 For those awaiting a new Killers album (possibly to redeem their last one or two so-so efforts), wait no more – they vow to release a new album in 2012 (via Gigwise)....
2.5 Million People are Paying Subscribers to Spotify While hundreds of millions of people illegal download porn music, 2.5 million good souls decided to pay Spotify to legitimately stream music (via Slash Gear). No (useful) information was revealed though, such...
