Month: June 2016

  By Keith Sharp The Poster for `Fire Aid’ said `Show Goes Rain or Shine – We’re Praying For Rain’. Well it did rain prior to Wednesday night’s benefit concert to raise funds for the more than 80,000 victims of the forest fire which ripped through Fort MacMurray Alberta. Yet by the time Dustin Bentall launched this six-hour extravaganza of... Read More

Studio Bell, home of the National Music Centre (NMC), is ready to welcome the world as the country’s first national cultural institution dedicated to celebrating music in Canada. Studio Bell, designed by Brad Cloepfil of Allied Works Architecture, is a new state-of-the-art institution in the heart of Calgary’s East Village. Encompassing 160,000-square-feet of new construction, the building’s design was inspired by the... Read More

Keifer Sutherland and his five piece band have embarked on the second leg of their North American tour, kicking off 11 Canadian dates on June 16 at Peter’s playhouse in Gravenhurst, Ontario. Canadian dates wind up on June 30 in Quebec City (see full listing of dates below). His North American tour is in support of his debut album, Down In... Read More

            Toronto, June 21, 2016 – The Sheraton Centre in Toronto was abuzz Monday night as the Canadian music industry gathered to pay tribute to Canada’s best songwriters, composers, film and TV music scorers, lyricists and music publishers at the 2016 SOCAN Awards. Emceed this year by bestselling author Dave Bidini of the Rheostatics, and sponsored by... Read More

  JUNE 20, 2016 – Multiplatinum-band Simple Plan have announced a 6-date Canadian tour that will see them play arenas this November in London, ON; Toronto; Ottawa; Quebec City; Halifax; and Montreal. Fan club members will have access to tickets starting tomorrow. Tickets go on sale to the public on Thursday in Quebec City and Montreal, and Friday for the... Read More

By Keith Sharp The night’s chief award winner may have gone AWOL from the show but the newly renamed iHeart Radio MuchMusic Video Awards continues to prove that the awards concert itself is the main attraction. Toronto’s Drake was unable to be on hand to collect five MMVA awards due to U.S touring obligations, but the Queen Street West street... Read More

The Canadian Broadcast Company has confirmed that the national network will telecast the last date of The Tragically Hip’s final concert tour on Saturday August 20th from the Rogers K-Rock Centre in Kingston Ontario. The concert will also be streamed live on the internet. The last of 15 sold-out concert dates to be staged by the band as a final good... Read More

  (Vancouver, BC) ~ Huka Entertainment is pleased to reveal the daily lineup for Pemberton Music Festival, which takes place Thursday, July 14 to Sunday, July 17 in Pemberton, BC. With nearly 100 performances and four separate performance areas, this year�s festival will be four glorious days of music, comedy, and camping on 300 pristine, open acres in one of the... Read More

Hard rockers and hockey lovers Monster Truck are proud to announce their collaboration with Michigan-based lifestyle hockey apparel brand Puck Hcky.  Inspired by their raucous track, “The Enforcer” (which is in turn inspired by the “tough guy” position in hockey) from their recently-released album SITTIN’ HEAVY, the Monster Truck Puck Hcky line features sweatshirts, t-shirts and more designed by Monster... Read More

Chantal Kreviazuk, one of Canada’s most accomplished singer-songwriters, will tour across Canada this fall. The coast-to-coast tour will begin November 1 Nanaimo, BC. The tour is in support of her new sixth studio album, Hard Sail, set for release on June 17. The album is available for pre-order through all digital retailers (link: http://smarturl.it/ckhspopr), with the first two singles, “Into... Read More