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Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob: New Album Aims to be Pop With 'Edge'
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Tegan and Sara, Heartthrob: New Album Aims to be Pop With 'Edge'

Teganandsara.com Tegan and Sara have written their fair share of love songs. Currently promoting their upcoming seventh full-length, Heartthrob, the Canadian twin sister duo have collectively penned a number of songs about the trials and tribulations when it comes to matters of the heart. But, as Tegan Quin admits, there was one kind of love ...

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Alexisonfire's End of Days: Band's Farewell Was More Celebration Than Funeral

Alexisonfire Facebook Last August, Canadian post-hardcore darlings Alexisonfire called it quits. After two years of touring behind their fourth and final album, 2009's Old Crows/Young Cardinals, the band revealed in a blog post on their website that singer Dallas Green had left the band to continue his solo career as City and Colour and that ...

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Tegan and Sara on Celebrity: 'I Don't Want to Tweet Pictures of My Boobs'

Tegan and Sara Facebook The word "heartthrob" immediately conjures up images of nostalgic boy bands from decades past and adolescent obsessions over the latest rising star actors sporting mushroom haircuts. Rarely do we think of female stars when that word gets thrown around. This was just one of the myriad reasons why Tegan Quin of ...

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Alexisonfire Singer Calls Fucked Up 'The Band of this Generation'

Getty | Daniel Boud Two years after they announced their break up, Canadian hardcore punks Alexisonfire banded together one last time this year for a farewell tour to coincide with their 10-year anniversary. To many, these last shows were filled with celebration and nostalgia, a blast from screamo's short-lived mainstream past. But, as ...

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Dragonette Come Home: Wandering Toronto Band Returns for New Year's

Michael Buckner, Getty Canadian electro-pop trio Dragonette has spent the past year touring, preparing and releasing their third album, Bodyparts. But, somewhere in between all that work, band members -- and husband and wife -- Martina Sorbara and Dan Kurtz managed to relocate their home from England back to their hometown of Toronto. It's ...

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Serena Ryder, Harmony: Ex-Folkie's New Album is Adele-Meets-Black Keys

Serena Ryder Facebook Over the last 13 years Serena Ryder has carved out a career as a folk singer-songwriter, which is why our first taste of her new album, Harmony, might be a bit of a shock. Lead single "Stompa" barrels right out of the gates with electrifying guitars and a strut similar to The Black Keys and Ryder's voice, soulful and ...

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AroarA: Broken Social Scene Member Andrew Whiteman's Poetic New Band

AroarA Facebook Ever since Broken Social Scene announced their hiatus last year, guitarist Andrew Whiteman has been refocusing all of his musical energy into his new home and a new project called AroarA with his wife, Ariel Engle. Relocating to Montreal from his hometown of Toronto, Whiteman and Engle always knew that they would eventually ...

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