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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...