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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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No Use for a Name Will Bring (Their Own) Pain at NXNE, Heart Bad Religion

No Use For a Name No Use For a Name (NUFAN) define the punk sound that emerged from Southern California in the early '90s. Formed in 1987 in San Jose, California, the band built on a style created by the likes of Descendents and Bad Religion, and developed a faster, more technical, and poppier genre of punk rock that served as soundtrack in ...

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Brendan Canning, Cookie Duster: Post-Broken Social Scene Album 'When Flying Was Easy' is About 'Experimentation'

Maplemusic Broken Social Scene's Brendan Canning has curated some fine facial hair in his time. So when we met on an early summer evening in Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park to chat about his recently revived post-BSS project Cookie Duster -- a band named after a moustache so bushy it brushes crumbs off a cookie -- we expected the indie-rock ...

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Paul Rodgers: Classic Rocker Talks 'All Right Now,' Adam Lambert and Becoming Canadian

Gareth Davies, Getty Images Platinum selling singer-songwriter Paul Rodgers has one of the most distinctive voices on classic rock radio. His unique timbre earned him the nickname "the Voice." It's a fitting handle; as frontman for English blues band Free, '70's supergroup Bad Company, Jimmy Page's post-Led Zeppelin project the Firm, and ...

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Bush's Gavin Rossdale Calls Tabloids 'Sour Vicarious-Living Parasites,' Blames Readers

Pascal Le Segretain, Getty Images Gavin Rossdale is the handsome leader of the reformed '90s alternative rock band Bush. His wife is Gwen Stefani, the fashion designer, perfume purveyor, and lead singer for beloved and enduring '90s rock act No Doubt. They are a high-profile Hollywood couple and therefore produce plenty of fodder for the ...

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Books on Tape: The Top 10 Collabs Between Authors and Musicians

Roadrunner Records Can you imagine a world where, instead of fossil fuels, modern machinery runs on the power of steam and everyone's favourite band is Rush? If so, you've glimpsed into the alternate reality that unfolds in the forthcoming steampunk novel from sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson. The best-selling scribe of over 100 genre ...

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Dave Bidini: Rheostatics Icon Chases Gordon Lightfoot, Lands 'In the Rock Hall'

Courtesy of Pheromone Recordings Rock music and literature usually inhabit separate ends of the arts and culture spectrum but Dave Bidini, founding member of seminal Canadian art-rock outfit the Rheostatics and current leader of the Bidiniband, is determined to bridge both worlds. The musician has authored 10 books -- including 'On a Cold ...

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Leonard Cohen: 'Old Ideas' Icon Celebrated by Rufus Wainwright and Others

Joel Sage, AFP/Getty Images If a cover is the highest compliment one songwriter can bestow upon another, then few songwriters command as much respect as Leonard Cohen. It seems like thousands of artists have interpreted his work, especially his signature late-career song 'Hallelujah' which Cohen once told the CBC could use "a break." With ...

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