Calgary Is About To Get Their First-Ever Local Music Awards
Recognizing the achievements of Calgary’s music community, the YYC Music Awards is proud to announce their inaugural year in supporting and celebrating the wide range of musical talent...
Nelly Furtado To Be Honoured with Allan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award at Canadian Music Week 2016
Canadian Music Week is pleased to announce Nelly Furtado as the 2016 recipient of theAllan Slaight Humanitarian Spirit Award. The award, bestowed to outstanding...
This Is What Being On The Road For 48 Years Has Taught Nils Lofgren
When Bruce Springsteen takes his East Street Band on the road this year, he will have trusted guitarist Nils Lofgren again, by his side....
Applications For MusiCounts TD Community Music Program Now Open
MusiCounts and TD banded together to expand programming designed specifically to create opportunities for youth in under served communities across Canada. The MusiCounts TD...
2016 JUNO Week will be the first major awards event to be Licensed to Play with SOCAN
SOCAN has presented the 2016 JUNO Awards and JUNO Week with a special Licensed to Play designation, which recognizes that all 15 of the...
68% of U.S. smartphone owners listen to streaming music daily
Parks Associates announced new consumer research today showing smartphone owners spend more time per day listening to music on their device compared to other...
Poet Sarah Kay On How We Measure Success Is So Accurate, It’ll Take Your Breath Away
Sarah Kay's powerful spoken word poetry performances have gone viral, with more than 10 million online views and thousands more in global live audiences....
Well, that’s it for The Eagles, says Don Henley
After selling 150 million records — 100 million in the U.S. alone — including 42 million copies of Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) and...
CCMA Announces Country Music Week 2015 Generated $11.8 Million in Economic Activity in Nova Scotia
The Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA) has announced that Country Music Week 2015, hosted in Halifax, brought $11.8 million in economic activity to Nova...
Solemn News Broadcast Interrupted By A Dog On A Lawnmower
In the past week, tornados have caused damage and havoc throughout the state of Texas — but one dog stayed chill, throughout it all....
I just ordered this: Peanuts Every Sunday: The 1950s Gift Box Set
I'm in the middle of an early spring cleaning, so I've made room for...more stuff. Good thing this caught my eye when it did....
How Michael McKean Predicted Many Rock Stars’ Futures With Spinal Tap
Better Call Saul's Michael McKean explains how he went from a folksy garage band with Christopher Guest to Spinal Tap fame.
"Well in some cases...
Jane Goodall Talks About Her Work With Wild Chimpanzees In A 2002 NPR Interview
Animals were my passion from even before I could speak apparently. When I was about 10, 11 I fell in love with Tarzan"
- Jane...
Columbia/Legacy Celebrates the 90th Birthday of Miles Davis with Two Special New Releases
Columbia/Legacy will commemorate the 90th birthday of globally renowned music innovator Miles Davis with the release of two very special new Miles Davis album...
Music Teachers Asked to Provide One Free Lesson to a New Student for Teach Music America Week
The National Association for Music Education is once again celebrating "Music In Our Schools Month" in March. To help focus attention on creating the...
Penguin Swims 8,000KM Every Year To See The Man Who Saved Him
A Magellanic penguin that migrates from Patagonia and a retired bricklayer in a Brazilian fishing village have struck up an unusual friendship.
71-year-old retired...
