Big Shot

Cher Lloyd has reunited with music big shot LA Reid sending a clear message to former mentor Cheryl Cole that she no longer needs her help. Read More

Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, better known to music fans as Dr. John, began his career in the late 1950s as a teenage session guitarist in his native New Orleans, backing such local legends as pianist Roy "Professor Longhair" Byrd, Art Neville, and R&B singer-songwriter Joe Tex. In the late '60s, he launched a solo career as Dr. John Creaux the Night Tripper, working a flamboyant persona steeped in voodoo lore and serving up a beguiling blend of funk, rhythm and blues, and psychedelic rock. Read More

Bernie Finkelstein - who built one of Canada's leading independent record labels and certainly the oldest, True North Records , which he sold in 2007 after 38 years - was feted by his friends and colleagues at the launch of his memoir, True North: A Life In The Music Business , published by McClelland & Stewart. Read More