It may not be the cultural mecca that is SXSW , but Canadian Music Week is happening right now in Toronto and the next Arcade Fires , Grimes ', and, proving the Dark Lord continues his work, Nickelbacks , are all putting on their best shirts in attempts to impress fans, media and industry.
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Once upon a time, the success of Canadian indie musicians at SXSW music festival in Austin, TX was news.
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New Jersey group Titus Andronicus give us the business with their anticipated third album on which they trade concept for execution.
Read MoreLower East Side venues are hanging up their energy drink-branded vinyl banners, the streets are filling with bright-eyed college students slathered in one-inch badge pins and laminates … it's beginning to look a lot like CMJ week in NYC.
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For the five years this blog has been a blog (on the internets) we've been talking about our love of Rah Rah, the now-sprawling prairie pop collective that sings the songs our hearts would write if they had opposable thumbs.
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Jon, your new album Promising Promises is basically a reworking of Forever If Ever , right?
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Bruce Springsteen's much-anticipated new studio album Wrecking Ball is — much as all the advance hype has suggested — a somewhat radical left turn for the artist, both musically and quite literally in the case of the lyrics.
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In Dream Boogie , Peter Guralnik's masterful 1996 book about legendary soul singer Sam Cooke, the celebrated biographer wrote about the singularly captivating vocal stylings of Cooke's breakout hit, "You Send Me." He outlined the way in which Cooke wrapped his voice around a single syllable, even a single letter, and elongated it for a full measure or more, ululating in a near-yodel that sounds much more romantic, whimsical, and melodic than those words would suggest.
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Parting can be such sweet sorrow but I have to say the end of the 2011 Regina Folk Festival was more the former than the latter.
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The Movie , which I watched goggle-eyed as a 13-year-old back in 1978–nowadays, in fact, with the studios in thrall to the comics, it's rare to find a blockbuster where people walk.
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If Rah Rah were a character in a romantic comedy it would be the quirky best friend that is too adorable for words but serves mostly only as exposition for the story, prodding one of the protagonists into taking a leap of faith and overcoming their fears or some shit.
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Jason Aldean 's new album, 'My Kinda Party,' is set for release on Tuesday, November 2, but the Georgia native has already started the party by playing some of the songs from the record during his headlining tour.
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In case you didn't hear, Shad didn't win the Polaris .
Read MoreThanks to acts like Moka Only, K'Naan, k-os, Drake and Shad, Canadian rappers have really broken through in both the hip-hop mainstream and underground.
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