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Crash Karma hoping a revival of '90s music is just around the corner
March 19, 2010
TORONTO - Crash Karma's debut album features plenty of 1990s alt-rock hallmarks: crunchy guitar riffs, chugging percussion, soaring solos and even former I Mother Earth frontman Edwin's inimitable howling.
Recorded in a number of public and private spaces and then stitched together as a sound collage, Ghostkeeper’s second album is more like a warm, itchy quilt than any sort of Frankenstein monster.
If Canadians need another reason to feel pride post-Olympics, they should pick up The White Strips’ new DVD/CD chronicling the group’s extensive 2007 Canadian tour., they should pick up The White Strips’ new DVD/CD chronicling the group’s extensive 2007 Canadian tour.
Here’s a piece of advice for all the bands out there — don’t go on tour with Kings of Leon.
March 19, 2010
OTTAWA - A fundraising campaign has been launched to erect a bronze sculpture of Canadian jazz legend Oscar Peterson in Ottawa.
March 19, 2010
The ’90s weren’t exactly the golden age of Canadian rock.
March 19, 2010
Mick Jagger later admitted it was one of the worst career decisions he ever made — allowing the Rolling Stones to go on stage after James Brown to close the T.A.M.I. Show in 1964.
Slash cleans up and goes solo
March 19, 2010
Something feels weird when I walk into Slash’s hotel suite, and it takes me a few minutes to realize what it is. It’s ... immaculate.
March 18, 2010
MuchMusic and MTV may have given up on the music video, making it an endangered species on television, but if Lady Gaga's new video is an accurate barometer of audience interest, the art form is here...
'Valleys of Neptune' tops HMV Canada CD sales chart; 'Need You Now' top country CD
March 18, 2010
TORONTO - The following is HMV Canada's top 10 CDs based on national sales for the week ending March 20.
March 18, 2010
NEW YORK - Britt Daniel can't resist some dry humour when asked what it means to him that his band, Spoon, sold out a gig at New York's prestigious and spacious Radio City Music Hall weeks in advance.
March 18, 2010
ATLANTA - This was supposed to be Gucci Mane's time to finally gain mainstream appeal, as he collaborated with Mariah Carey, Mario and Usher while churning out street anthems like "Wasted" and "Go...
March 18, 2010
For Hamilton-bred filmmaker Floria Sigismondi, one of the great memories of making The Runaways came during rehearsal when star Kristen Stewart’s singing voice fooled even the true-life...
March 18, 2010
On their previous album, Scotland’s Frightened Rabbit laid down some roots signalling they could do sweeping, anthemic rock selling misery instead of hope.
March 18, 2010
Striving for eclecticism, Toronto-based singer/songwriter/pianist Elizabeth Shepherd incorporates many genres and moods into tertiary full-length, Heavy Falls The Night.
March 18, 2010
If you didn’t know it, the ’90s are back. And to prove it, I Mother Earth's Edwin has teamed up with Our Lady Peace's Mike Turner, Tea Party’s Jeff Burrows and Zygote’s Amir Epstein to bring back...
March 17, 2010
ARLINGTON, Texas - Johnnie High, a north Texas country music showman who gave such performers LeAnn Rimes and Boxcar Willie their early exposure, has died at the age of 80.
Fan of country singer Justin Moore steals guitar off stage in drunken mistake at Mich. show
March 17, 2010
NASHVILLE - Country singer Justin Moore knows his fans can get rowdy - maybe sometimes to a fault.
March 17, 2010
NASHVILLE - When Gary Allan was 15, his father refused to sign his first record contract. He thought his son was an imitator.
March 17, 2010
TORONTO - Millions of Justin Bieber's teenaged admirers would claim to be the 16-year-old's biggest fan.
March 16, 2010
NASHVILLE - Reverse psychology may have done the trick for country singer Luke Bryan.
March 16, 2010
NASHVILLE - All three members of the Dixie Chicks, including lead singer Natalie Maines, are heading out in June on a one-month stadium tour with The Eagles and Keith Urban.
The Court Yard Hounds (2/3rds of the Dixie Chicks) make debut at SXSW
March 16, 2010
NEW YORK - Even though the Court Yard Hounds are a new group, they are hardly your typical baby act. The duo is derived from one of music's best-selling bands - the Dixie Chicks - and their self...
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