Rural Alberta Advantage The Rural Alberta Advantage are in good spirits these days. In fact, frontman Nils Edenloff describes his current state of mind as "wow, exclamation point, star star!" And he has ample reason to be so elated: He and his bandmates singer-keyboardist Amy Cole and drummer Paul Banwatt (of Woodhands fame) are in the ...

Sony BMG Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland of Sloan aren't too interested in winning another Juno. Their longtime band are up in the Best Rock Album category for The Double Cross but the guys are pretty blase about it. So are the Canadian indie rock veterans too cool for award season? Nope, they're just design snobs. "Junos now are ...

Warner Music Blue Rodeo will finally get their due as one of Canada's most iconic rock bands when they're ceremoniously inducted into Canada's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Juno Awards this Sunday (April 1). Many expected this day to come a lot sooner since Jim Cuddy and crew have long since proved themselves as rock titans in their ...

Secret City Records Diamond Rings might not be in the music biz to win awards, but if snagging a shiny Juno makes him the fave at family dinners, then he's all for putting on a cool tux and strutting the red carpet Sunday night in Canada's capital. "It's nice to know that you can make a record in your bedroom and be nominated for something ...

Universal Music Anyone who's ever had to endure the graveyard shift knows there's nothing enviable about working into the wee hours. Either you're serving dodgy customers and chugging Red Bulls to keep awake or else stuck solo holding down the eerily silence fort. Yet somehow Montreal's Sam Roberts Band make this grueling shift work almost ...

Barry Brecheisen, Getty Images Fiona Apple last released an album in 2005 so she's had a long time to come up with a title for the followup. Maybe too long. The singer has revealed her long-awaited new record, reportedly due out this June, will be called 'The Idler Wheel is wiser than the Driver of the Screw, and Whipping Cords will serve ...

Getty Images Davy Jones' former Monkees bandmates have decided to forgo the late singer's memorial service in Florida to avoid a media circus. Monkees drummer Micky Dolenz told Billboard.com, "My understanding is they want to avoid a media circus and... the family wants to keep it very, very low-key and very, very private. "You can ...