This coming weekend sees the unofficial kick off of this year’s concert festival season across Canada. The fluctuating dollar has taken it’s toll on many Canadian promoters from attracting major U.S and International names although the big festivals like Ottawa’s Blues Festival, the Quebec International Festival, Osheaga (which scored Radiohead’s only Canadian appearance... Read More

By Keith Sharp A line on the promotion poster for yesterday’s announced Fire Aid concert to be staged Wednesday June 29th at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium to raise funds for the beleaguered residents of Fort MacMurray says it all.  “The show goes rain or shine, we’re praying for rain!” A who’s who of Canadian talent, many with strong Western Canadian ties... Read More

By Keith Sharp With what is sure to be the hottest concert ticket of the season, The Tragically Hip announced today on their face book, the 10 dates that will constitute, the band’s final tour this summer. Having announced yesterday, the shocking news that lead singer, Gord Downie had been stricken with terminal brain cancer, band members Paul Langlios, Gord... Read More

Now it’s getting personal! It’s one thing to deal with the untimely deaths of music superstars like David Bowie, Prince and Glenn Frey but today’s announcement that Tragically Hip, lead vocalist Gord Downie has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer strikes as a real punch to the gut for all music loving Canadians. The Tragically Hip are our band. The Kingston Ontario septet... Read More

May 19, 2016: The Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO), in partnership with thePolaris Music Prize, is delighted to welcome Canadian icon Buffy Sainte-Marie—winner of the 2015 Polaris Music Prize for her latest album, Power In The Blood—to Roy Thomson Hall on Thursday, June 30, 2016, at 7:30pm. Last fall, the TSO and the Polaris Music Prize announced a unique partnership: members of... Read More

Alessia Cara, Drake, Shawn Mendes, and The Weeknd Lead with the Most Nominations   TORONTO (May 18, 2016) – Drumroll please! Much announced today that internationally acclaimed Canadian artists Alessia Cara, Drake, Shawn Mendes, andThe Weeknd lead with the most nominations for THE 2016 IHEARTRADIO MUCH MUSIC VIDEO AWARDS. Hosted by Supermodel Gigi Hadid, the two-hour awards show airs live... Read More

  Today, North By Northeast (NXNE) Future Land, the new Interactive, Music and Gaming Conference together with co-host, Ryerson University announces the godfather – or grandfather – of gaming, the man who founded Atari, technology pioneer, entrepreneur, engineer and author Nolan Bushnell will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday, June 15 at Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management. Nolan Bushnell is best known as the founder... Read More

TORONTO, ON – May 17, 2016 – Bluesy-folk-rock group Sun K are thrilled to announce The DoctorFeels Good Tour, kicking off at NXNE on June 17th at The Horseshoe (w/ NQ Arbuckle). “NXNE has a very special significance to our band,” shares frontman Kristian Montano. “Our first ever show was for NXNE and this year marks three years of Sun K – we can’t think of a... Read More

By Keith Sharp Comic book genius and former Music Express and Metallion magazine art director, Darwyn Cooke passed away Saturday  morning in Florida after succumbing to a bout of aggressive cancer. His wife Marsha posted in a blog May 13th that the 53-year-old Cooke had been placed in palliative care and he died the following day. Writer and artist for The New Frontier series... Read More