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Lonny Knapp

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Lonny Knapp is freelance writer and musician with a serious cycling problem. When not coaxing sentences onto a blank Word document, Lonny might be found picking tunes on his mandolin in a partied-out Queen West kitchen. www.lonnyknapp.com

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Grammys 2013, Dine Alone: Canadian Indie Label Explodes With Lumineers, Civil Wars
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Corb Lund: Authentic Country Singer Ponders a World Without Cows

Alexandra Valenti On and off the stage, Corb Lund wears a beat-up black cowboy hat. He's a country singer and the cowboy hat is a part of every country-and-western singer's wardrobe. For cowboys, the wide-brim of a ten-gallon Stetson provides shelter from the sun and rain, but for country singers, its more about fashion than function. ...

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NOFX's Fat Mike on Tony Sly's Death: 'It's Worse Than My Parents Dying'

Getty | WireImage In June 2012, a few weeks before his band's appearance at NXNE, Spinner spoke with No Use for a Name (NUFAN) frontman Tony Sly. During that interview, Sly complained of chronic back pain caused from too many nights "jumping around like an idiot on stage." "It's a herniated disc on my cervical spine. I'm in pain all the ...

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PS I Love You at TIFF 2012: Don't Want David Spade to Play Them

PS I Love You Facebook Type "PS I Love You" straight up into Google and you'll get a neck-and-neck search results fight between the Kingston, Ontario band and 2007 Gerard Butler-Hilary Swank movie of the same name. Those search results could get far more confusing very soon. We catch up with PS I Love You hanging outside Toronto's Mod Club ...

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Sheepdogs Learned to Not Be 'Cheesy' From Black Keys' Patrick Carney

Matt Dunlap Have you ever wondered how to get one half of America's coolest rock band to produce your eponymous major label debut? If your band is The Sheepdogs, and that producer is The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, all you have to do is ask. "He was asking about the next record and he seemed genuinely interested, so we asked him to ...

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Marilyn Manson Clarifies Avril Lavigne Relationship Status from HeavyTO Stage

Filmmagic | Getty Images Partway into his set at Toronto's Heavy TO festival on August 11, Marilyn Manson apologized to all Canadians for a quip he made during a recent interview with the U.K. website Entertainment Wise. He also clarified his relationship status with the sk8er girl. When asked to confirm rumors that he was dating singer ...

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Serj Tankian, 'Harakiri': System of a Down Singer Goes Solo, Talks Dead Birds, Occupy, and How an iPad is Like a Guitar

Stefan Gosatti, Getty Back in 2011, when thousands of birds fell from the sky and millions of fish washed up on shore in freak die-offs across North America, most people were happy to accept the media's flimsy scientific explanations. Serj Tankian, the Lebanese-born Armenian-American solo artist and frontman for Grammy-Award winning hard ...

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Brendan Canning on Cookie Duster and Life After BSS: 'I Wanted a Fresh Perspective'

Maplemusic Fans were broken-hearted when Toronto's Broken Social Scene announced an indefinite hiatus back in 2011. Though it's been almost year since the band's final performance, bassist Brendan Canning tells Spinner he's had little time to bask in past glories. "We finished our last gig in style in Rio de Janeiro. It was a classic end ...

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