It’s an engaging conceit — the folk balladeer’s whispy, sometimes almost stagy voice hovering over deconstructed, ambient soundscapes — and Eric Chenaux nearly pulls it off on Slowly Paradise, a…
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Allison Johnelle Boron
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Dubbed “the next gay pop star” by AfterEllen, Jordan Alexander’s career has skyrocketed after only three years on the scene. After her girlfriend gave her a guitar and signed her…
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Thierry Côté
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It is easy in the post-rickrolling era to forget the level of popularity that Rick Astley achieved during his late-1980s peak. With 40 million records sold, 8 UK and 5 US…
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Thierry Côté
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Back in 2009, when Maxwell’s critically acclaimed BLACKsummer’snight marked the singer’s return following an eight-year hiatus from the music industry and served notice that he remained a stunningly singular creative…
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Thierry Côté
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Flow 93.5 has long been Toronto’s pre-eminent R&B/hip-hop radio station, but in recent years it has begun to tweak its format to move away from contemporary/Top 40 hits in favour…
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Thierry Côté
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For a group that once loudly and proudly proclaimed that they were reapplying for the job of best band in the world, U2 have faced their share of humbling challenges…
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Thierry Côté
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Well, he owed Toronto this much! No, Prince Rogers Nelson does not really owe anything to anyone, of course, but after speculation and confusion over two rumoured shows at Massey…
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Thierry Côté
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Nearly a decade removed from Ryan Adams’s most prolific year, when he released three full-lengths over seven months (while leaving countless other recordings in the vaults), it can often seem a…
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Thierry Côté
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Going all the way back his days in Split Enz, Neil Finn has always found a welcoming audience in Canada (that group’s True Colours was a Top Ten hit here…
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Thierry Côté
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Few bands have recovered from the kind of turmoil that engulfed Paramore following the release of its third album, the excellent Brand New Eyes, and led to an acrimonious split…
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Brian Boone
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The sad tale of one more Canadian rock classic unjustly ignored in America.
Dave Steed
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We’re smack dab in the middle of the letter T in this week’s Bottom Feeders, and you know what that means: You can New Jack Swing on Dave Steed’s nuts.
Robert Cass
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To celebrate/exploit the release of Varshons, the new covers album by Evan Dando‘s Lemonheads, Bootleg City is covering its own covers-filled edition from July 27, 2007. Of course, back in those…
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