By: Staff – Iceland’s Secret Solstice festival has unveiled an incredibly impressive lineup this year featuring 177 acts, including Deftones who are scheduled to headline. However, the alt-metal band’s frontman will also wow a handful of fans at a hyper-special special event with an acoustic set, in what will become one of the festival’s most unique settings. Chino Moreno has just been … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey, & Associated Press – Update: Orlando police have released the name and a picture of the man who killed The Voice star Christina Grimmie. Kevin James Loibl, 27, killed the rising singer-songwriter, according to a tweet from the Orlando Police Department. Police say Loibl traveled from St. Petersburg, Florida, to Orlando’s Plaza Live venue, where he shot Grimmie, who was … Continue reading
By: Staff – Banks & Steelz – a musical collaboration between Wu Tang Clan’s RZA and Interpol’s Paul Banks – have announced that their upcoming debut album will be titled Anything But Words. The duo have also revealed the album’s track-listing (see below), plus special guest appearances by Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine, Kool Keith, and Wu Tan Clan’s Ghostface Killah, Method Man, and Masta … Continue reading
By: Staff – Sum 41 have announced their new album, 13 Voices, due out October 7th via Hopeless Records. The ten-track album marks the band’s first LP in five years, following up 2011’s Screaming Bloody Murder, which featured the Grammy Nominated song “Blood In My Eyes.” On the album, frontman Deryck Whibley says, “I am really excited to be releasing an album after everything I’ve … Continue reading
By: Staff – Nearly 25,000 Canadians have signed Kelly McAlpine’s petition asking the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to broadcast the Tragically Hip’s final show at the K-Rock centre in Kingston on August 20th 2016. Her petition continues to gather momentum as fans struggle to purchase tickets for the band’s final tour, which Ticketmaster made available to the public Friday … Continue reading
By: Staff – Beck has released a brand new single entitled “Wow”. Stream it below. The music has flowed from Beck without pause since 2014’s Album of the Year Grammy-winner Morning Phase: from globe-spanning live shows consistently hailed as the best of Beck’s storied career to the 2015 psych-dance summer jam “Dreams”. This creative watershed couldn’t … Continue reading
By: Staff – Toronto Urban Roots Fest (TURF) returns to Fort York from September 16th-18th. Today the festival announced that Death Cab For Cutie, James Bay, Barenaked Ladies, Dropkick Murphys, Explosions in the Sky, Matthew Good, Jake Bugg, The Sheepdogs, Lush, The Hives, Lake Street Dive, Matt Andersen and The Bona Fide, Drive By Truckers, Guided By Voices, Matt Mays, Rheostatics, Okkervil River, Corb Lund, The Felice Brothers, The Mekons, Marlon Williams, Julien Baker, John Moreland, Skinny Lister, and MidnightShine, are all set to … Continue reading
By: Staff – Following the announcement yesterday morning that frontman Gord Downie has terminal brain cancer, The Tragically Hip have announced tour dates for a summer tour, which will support their forthcoming album, Man Machine Poem, out June 17th. Check out the full list of tour dates below. The tour, which will serve as their last ever set of performances, kicks off … Continue reading
By: Staff – Gord Downie, lead singer of iconic Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. The band announced in a statement this morning that the singer-songwriter learned of the illness in December. “Since then, obviously, he’s endured a lot of difficult times, and he has been fighting hard,” the statement said. “In privacy … Continue reading
By: Staff – The Life is Beautiful Music Festival has released the soundtrack that will fill the stages of downtown Las Vegas with a powerful and diverse lineup that crosses generations during the multi-day festival, September 23 – 25. Festival goers will be introduced to more than three-dozen of the world’s most celebrated music artists set to … Continue reading