RACISM ISN’T BLACK OR WHITE IN DIRECTOR X’S DEBUT FILM ACROSS THE LINE

April 15, 2016 Music Express

Set in small town Nova Scotia, the film casts Torononian Stephan James (Selma) as Mattie Slaughter, a talented black teen being scouted by the NHL. But Mattie’s ascension to the cover of the Wheaties box is made difficult by a number of factors, including his older brother’s links to crime and growing racial tensions between white and black students at... Read More

DRAKE & FUTURE What A Time To Be Alive

September 30, 2015September 30, 2015 Keith Sharp

(Universal) The title of this mixtape says it all; Drake and his buddy Future have created an ode to their current success with 11 tracks that for the most part, celebrate the excessive wealth of their present status. The repeated refrain of “Me and my friends, we’ve got money to spend” on “Change Locations” is supported on other tracks like... Read More

2015 Juno Awards: The New Wave Takes Over!

March 16, 2015March 17, 2015 Keith Sharp

When Toronto’s Weeknd won the 2015 Juno Award for Artist Of The Year, beating out the likes of Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan and Leonard Cohen during the awards broadcast staged Sunday at Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre and a gala awards ceremony staged Saturday at the Hamilton Convention Centre, you know it’s not your dad’s Junos. Despite the fact that classic artists... Read More

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