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.
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As Spinner sits down to interview Martha Wainwright, the New-York-born and Montreal-raised singer steps in dog poo.
We meet at Toronto's Pravda Vodka Bar, a lavish Russian-themed cocktail bar complete with a bust of Lenin perched over the door, over 70 types of vodka on the rail, and Soviet propaganda posters on ...
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It's early afternoon, and Ben Bridwell and Bill Reynolds of Band of Horses are bellied up to the bar of Toronto's Dakota Tavern.
With rusty revolvers and steer horns mounted to the barn-board walls, a parlour piano set up on the small stage strung with Christmas lights, and bar stools fashioned from salvaged wood ...
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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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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 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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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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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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