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Boots and Hearts adds Jake Owen, Dean Brody, Diamond Rio, Chase Bryant to 2016 line-up

By: Staff – The Boots and Hearts Music Festival has announced that Jake Owen and Dean Brody have been added to the line-up as part of Canada’s largest camping and music festival this summer. Additional artists confirmed today include Diamond Rio, Chase Bryant, Dylan Scott, Lindsay Ell, Raquel Cole, River Town Saints, Madeline Merlo, David James, Lindsay Broughton, The Reklaws, The Dungarees, Kaitlin Kozell, Brea Lawrenson and MacArthur Clark.  They join previously announced … Continue reading

Sled Island Music Festival announces Peaches as 2016 guest curator

By: Staff – Calgary’s Sled Island Music Festival has announced provocative musician-producer-filmmaker-performance artist Peaches as 2016 guest curator. Peaches’ curatorial selections will join over 250 additional bands, comedians, filmmakers and artists chosen by the festival in more than 35 venues across the city. In addition to unleashing her top musical picks on the city, Peaches … Continue reading

Sting and Peter Gabriel to open Festival d’été de Québec 2016

By: Staff – Two of music’s most iconic artists – Sting and Peter Gabriel – will unite this summer for a once in a lifetime concert on the Plains of Abraham Bell Stage during the July 7th opening night of Festival d’été de Québec 2016. “To be on the short list of cities for a concert tour of this magnitude … Continue reading

Stream the new Rae Spoon track “Armour”

By: Staff – With the release of Rae Spoon’s eighth studio album, Armour, only a month away, you can now stream the title track from one of Canada’s best songwriters below. Both the opening and title track of the album, Spoon says they “wrote it about finding strength in an identity that includes a difficult history.” Set for … Continue reading

Photos: Breaking Benjamin, Starset @ House of Blues Houston

Photos by: Madelynn Vickers – Hard rock band Breaking Benjamin, who released their fifth album, Dark Before Dawn, on June 23rd, 2015 via Hollywood Records, which featured the singles “Failure”, “Angels Fall”, and “Defeated”, performed at the House of Blues in Houston, Texas last night with Columbus, Ohio-based alt rock band Starset, who released their debut album, Transmissions, on … Continue reading

Watch Odesza’s new video for “It’s Only”

By: Staff – Following a massive 2015 marked by an entirely sold out world headline tour, Odesza has unveiled a new video for “It’s Only (feat. Zyra)”. Watch it below. Selected as a Vimeo “Staff Pick” for Dan Brown’s stellar direction, the video comes ahead of another headline run of major festivals this spring and summer including stops at Mysteryland, CRSSD, Boston Calling, Moogfest, Shaky Beats and … Continue reading

Choir! Choir! Choir! sings “Space Oddity” with 500 David Bowie fans at the AGO

By: Staff –   The world felt a collective shock when David Bowie died on January 10th from liver cancer, two days after his 69th birthday and the release of his new album Blackstar. Toronto-based “open choir” Choir! Choir! Choir! paid tribute to Bowie at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Walker Court last night by singing their original arrangement … Continue reading

Photos: Ozomatli, Lucky Chops, Miss Velvet @ Highline Ballroom

Photos by: Saidy Lopez –  Los Angeles-based latin rock band Ozomatli, who released their newest album, Place in the Sun, in 2014 via Vanguard Records, which followed up their 2012 album, Ozomatli Presents Ozokidz, performed at the Highline Ballroom in New York City on January 15th with New York City-based hip-hop/funk band Lucky Chops, and New York City-based … Continue reading

Photos: Alessia Cara, Craig Stickland @ The Danforth Music Hall

Photos by: Brandon Newfield – Brampton, ON-based pop/R&B singer-songwriter Alessia Cara, who released her debut album, Know-It-All, on November 13th, 2015 via Def Jam/UMG, which included the singles “Here”, and “Wild Things”, and which followed the release of her August 2015 EP, Four Pink Walls, performed at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto last night with singer-songwriter Craig Stickland. … Continue reading

Photos: The Maccabees, The Big Moon @ Barrowland Ballroom

Photos by: Alice Hadden –  UK indie rock band The Maccabees, who will release their new album, Marks To Prove It, on July 31, 2015, which features their latest single, “Marks To Prove It”, and “Something Like Happiness”, and which follows up their 2012 album, Given To The Wild, which received a nomination for the 2012 Mercury Prize, performed … Continue reading