k-os wants you to know that he’s doing more than making hip hop albums for you to dance to. “Yeah, my music bangs and you may want to have fun with it, but I’m also trying to say something,” k-os explains. “Canada is a new nation, so a lot of black people in this country are […]
Blue Rodeo released their debut album, Outskirts, in ’87, and like a true institution, they’ve been going strong ever since. But according to co-founding member Greg Keelor, these pioneers are something else entirely. “More like a lab experiment!” Greg laughs. “We put six men in a van and drive around all over the place.” Twenty five years later, […]
The end is here. After 5 seasons, Fringe, J.J. Abrams’ mind-blowing sci fi series, will bow out on its 100th episode. The Emmy-nominated saga followed an obscure branch of the FBI known as the Fringe Division, a mad scientist and his son, as they investigated the weird and unexplained. Alabama native, Jasika Nicole, starred as agent […]
Kellan Lutz knows how to get your blood flowing, whether he’s playing the role of Twilight vampire stud or raising the heat by modeling Calvin Klein underwear. “The black ones feel cool at night and the white ones make me smile in the morning,” Kellan says of his lifetime supply of CK trunks.
Duncan Sheik’s life hasn’t been the same since he wowed the world with his widely successful Broadway musical Spring Awakening in 2006. “Because of the success of Spring Awakening, we’ve got all these great people who want to work with us. Whereas before,” Duncan laughs, “we were desperately trying to find a team to do the show.” Now, […]
Twenty years since inception, legendary ska troop Reel Big Fish is still the real deal. Back in 1992, founding frontman Aaron Barrett and then bandmates pulled together a demo. A couple years later, the California collective self-released their debut Everything Sucks and as the saying goes, the rest is history. Eight studio albums and a couple compilations later, Reel […]
After 5 seasons, Damages, the legal thriller starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne, is history. From its pilot in summer of 2007 to its finale earlier this fall, all 59 episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series opened with The VLA’s razor sharp theme song “When I’m Through With You,” putting the Los Angeles-based rock band on the map. Now […]
P!nk and her “Try” music video co-star, Colt Prattes, blew the roof off the American Music Awards on Sunday night. The pair’s dynamite performance of P!nk’s hit single brought fire and magic back to a gala that just isn’t what it used to be. “You’re right. I feel like performing music as a whole isn’t what it […]
Metric is giving their latest album Synthetica another go. The band just released a deluxe edition featuring acoustic renditions of songs found on the standard album. This sort of strip down is becoming a habit. Metric released a portion of their previous record Fantasies, including the hits “Help, I’m Alive and “Gimme Sympathy,” in the same barenaked […]
The iHeart Radio MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs), formerly the MuchMusic Video Awards, is Canada’s hottest music award show and one of the biggest street-level block party events in the world. The MMVAs have been honoring the year’s top music videos since 1990 and have welcomed music’s biggest stars including The Black Eyed Peas, Britney Spears, […]
International rockstar David Usher is a citizen of the world, but he calls Montreal home. “I feel like I’m living in a Hemmingway novel, like A Moveable Feast. A world you don’t expect to exist, but you can find it in a place like Montreal,” David explains. After attempting to make a home in England, […]
Rising star Augie Duke has lived out a fantasy that most women, and some men, only dream of. “I got to meet Simon Baker,” she sighs over the phone from her apartment in LA. The twenty-something actress guest starred on The Mentalist, the CBS hit drama that launched Simon Baker into an international sex symbol. Since […]
MC Mario had one wild summer, jam packed with fun, sun and success. The star DJ’s latest compilation Summer Anthems 2012 spawned a tour and climbed to the No.3 position on the Canadian Charts and the No.2 hot spot on iTunes. “I’m really happy and proud of this collection,” says the renowned DJ and radio host. […]
