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The Rolling Stones Announce The Release of Brand-New Best of Compilation Album, Honk

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The Rolling Stones Announce The Release of Brand-New Best of Compilation Album, Honk
“Wild Horses (Live)” Feat. Florence Welch Is Out – Album Pre-Order Available Now March 2019 (Toronto, ON) – The Rolling Stones announced the release of a brand-new best of compilation album, Honk. Featuring the biggest hits and classic cuts from every Rolling Stones studio album from 1971 to 2016’s Blue & Lonesome, Honk will be released April 19 via Polydor/Interscope/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company.... Read More

Tim Hicks, Tebey, Kira Isabella, and The Western Swing Authority to perform at the CMAOntario Awards

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Tim Hicks, Tebey, Kira Isabella, and The Western Swing Authority to perform at the CMAOntario Awards
The Country Music Association of Ontario Announces 2019 CMAOntario Award Show Performers Tim Hicks, Tebey, Kira Isabella, and The Western Swing Authority The Country Music Association of Ontario (CMAOntario) is thrilled to announce the second wave of performers for the 7th Annual CMAOntario Award Show on Sunday, June 16, 2019 at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The CMAOntario Award Show will... Read More

bublé! The Original Soundtrack From Upcoming NBC Special To Be Released On March 21

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bublé! The Original Soundtrack From Upcoming NBC Special To Be Released On March 21
Michael Bublé will be releasing an audio-only digital version of bublé!, his seventh highly-anticipated NBC TV special. The original soundtrack of the NBC TV special will be available at all digital and streaming services on Thursday, March 21ST via Reprise /Warner Bros. Records. The special, which is his most personal to date, includes classics “My Funny Valentine,” “When You’re Smiling” and “Fly Me... Read More

Cavendish Beach Music Festival Announces Frankie Ballard and Mackenzie Porter

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Cavendish Beach Music Festival Announces Frankie Ballard and Mackenzie Porter
  The Cavendish Beach Music Festival, presented by Bell is excited to announce that platinum-selling, Billboard chart-topping country blues rockerFrankie Ballard and three-time CCMA Female Artist of the Year nominee, Canadian country singer-songwriter Mackenzie Porter, have been added to the Bell Main Stage of Atlantic Canada’s largest multi-day outdoor music festival running July 5 – 7, 2019. They will join... Read More

Dallas Smith Notches 7th No. One with “Rhinestone World”

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Dallas Smith Notches 7th No. One with “Rhinestone World”
Multiple JUNO and CCMA Award-winning artist Dallas Smith earns his 7th No. one single with “Rhinestone World” today as the hook-filled track tops the Nielsen BDS and Mediabase Canadian Country Radio charts this week. Serving as the second consecutive chart-topper from his forthcoming EP and sixth consecutive No. one single as a solo artist, Smith firmly remains in uncharted territory with... Read More

The Hammer’s Arkells Triumph in 2019 Music Express Readers’ Choice Awards

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The Hammer’s Arkells Triumph in 2019 Music Express Readers’ Choice Awards
Hamilton’s Arkells proved to be the Music Express Readers’ Top Choice claiming the most votes to win Top Canadian Group and Top Canadian album award for their `Rally Cry’ release in Music Expresss 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards. All winners to receive Microphone Awards courtesy of Long & McQuade. Top Male Vocalist award went to Michael Buble while Top Female Vocalist... Read More

Work Ethic Breeds Success For Cat Empire

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Work Ethic Breeds Success For Cat Empire
So what would cause the six-member The Cat Empire to forego the balmy 32 degrees’ centigrade temperatures of their native Melbourne Australia to plunge into the frigid climes of a sub-zero degree’s Canadian winter? It’s called a work ethic and it’s something Felix Riebl feels committed to doing as the band launches their eighth studio album `Stolen Diamonds’ with tour... Read More

Dean Brody & Dallas Smith – Band Together For Epic Fall Cross-Country Tour

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Dean Brody & Dallas Smith – Band Together For Epic Fall Cross-Country Tour
This fall will bring together two iconic country artists, Dean Brody and Dallas Smith, for the first-ever, larger-than-life, Friends Don’t Let Friends Tour Alone Tour, kicking off in Sault Ste. Marie on Sept 18, before heading across the country. Shortly thereafter, the two unique artists known for their multiple #1 smash hits will take to the Budweiser Stage in Toronto... Read More

Al Harlow’s Prism Is Still Flyin

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Al Harlow’s Prism Is Still Flyin
Backstage at Oshawa’s Regent Theatre, Prism guitarist/vocalist Al Harlow is fawning over his new love, an exquisite turquoise-coloured teardrop-designed, twin pick-up version of a Vox Mk 111 guitar, the same model originally played by former Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones. “I spent decades searching for a guitar like this and then I found one online at a South Los Angeles... Read More

Cavendish Beach Music Festival Announces Additional Acts Added to Bell Main Stage Lineup

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Cavendish Beach Music Festival Announces Additional Acts Added to Bell Main Stage Lineup
TORONTO, ON – The Cavendish Beach Music Festival presented by Bell is thrilled to announce Country superstar and 5-time GRAMMY Award nominee Hunter Hayes as the final headliner of Atlantic Canada’s largest multi-day festival running July 5-7, 2019. The CMA Award-winner will hit the stage on Friday, July 5 joining previously announced headliners Eric Church and Carrie Underwood.   Also announced,... Read More

Dallas Smith Continues One Of The Most Celebrated Journeys In Canadian Country Music With New Ep “The Fall” –

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Dallas Smith Continues One Of The Most Celebrated Journeys In Canadian Country Music With New Ep “The Fall” –
Multiple JUNO and CCMA Award-winning artist Dallas Smith has built a reputation as both an honest hitmaker and a fearless entertainer, has achieved multi-PLATINUM success and remains in uncharted territory with a record-breaking six No. 1 singles to date. Smith continues his notable journey with the release of his highly anticipated EP “The Fall” (604 Records), available digitally everywhere March 15th.... Read More

bülow Releases Brand New Song “Sweet Little Lies”

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bülow Releases Brand New Song “Sweet Little Lies”
Critically acclaimed German-born pop iconoclast bülow releases brand new single “Sweet Little Lies” today via Republic Records/Wax Records/Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. Listen HERE On the meaning behind the song, bülow remarked, “’Sweet Little Lies’ is about creating false realities. When things get real, we find escapes. Sometimes it’s hobbies, and sometimes it’s people. But the degree of it we can’t always control.” “Sweet... Read More

Big Wreck Release Locomotive Single

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Big Wreck Release Locomotive Single
Big Wreck has today released the explosive single “Locomotive,” which is available for stream and downloads at all DSPs. The song was produced at Noble Street Studios in Toronto by the award-winning producer/engineer Eric Ratz and Big Wreck vocalist and guitarist Ian Thornley.  Ian Thornley says of the track, “The song started from the riff but the lyric, ‘Locomotive’ has... Read More

2019 Juno Nominees The Washboard Union Launch Magical Video For ‘She Gets Me’

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2019 Juno Nominees The Washboard Union Launch Magical Video For ‘She Gets Me’
Warner Music Canada recording artists The Washboard Union have today released a magical video for their latest single, “She Gets Me.” Filmed in Toronto by award-winning director Joel Stewart, the video stars magicians Rosemary Reid and Aaron Matthews who meet and flirt with one another throughout the clip by trying to one-up each other with their magical talents. It’s important... Read More

Champniss Suffers Major Relapse

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Champniss Suffers Major Relapse
Former MuchMusic vee-jay, Kim Clarke Champniss has suffered a major health setback after the return of a throat-cancer problem has resulted in radical surgery to remove an egg-shaped tumour from his voice box. Communicating via his Facebook, Champniss has confirmed that the surgery, performed at Toronto General Hospital will result in the permanent loss of his voice and that a... Read More

Juno Nominated Breakout Duo Elijah Woods X Jamie Fine Do It All For “You” With Their New Single.

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Juno Nominated Breakout Duo Elijah Woods X Jamie Fine Do It All For “You” With Their New Single.
Platinum-certified Canadian breakout duo Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine do it all for “You” with their brand new single, available everywhere today (2/15) via Big Machine Records. Also launching today is the pre-order for “8:47”, the debut EP from the 2018 iHeartRadio MMVA Best New Canadian Artist winners. The EP, available March 8th, features seven self-penned tracks including the CRIA... Read More