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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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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.
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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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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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Don't call the Luyas an indie-pop band. The Montreal band's frontwoman Jessie Stein just doesn't feel like her band belongs there.
"I love a good pop song, but I think that our band has been slightly misunderstood by some people," Stein tells Spinner. "I don't think that we were ever really a pop band."
Instead, Stein believes ...
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Kimbra might be best-known for her hit collaboration "Somebody That I Used to Know" with fellow New Zealander Gotye, but she's got a few other people lined up who she's excited to work with.
Having finally wrapped up and released her debut album Vows, Kimbra Johnson is already in the process of securing some new ...
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Canadian electro-pop star Grimes (real name Claire Boucher) was recently forced to cancel her tour. "Hey guys, so sorry 4 the cancelled shows. im having trouble w hearing loss, tinnitus & am trying 2 stay away from loud music 4 a bit," she tweeted after cancelling a string of Canadian dates. A few days later she scrapped her ...
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