Dave Matthews Announce 2016 Summer Tour, Takes Break for 2017

Dave Matthews Band will perform two full sets nightly on its 2016 summer tour, which will kick off on May 11 at INTRUST Bank...

Canadian Arts/Media Job Posts For January 25, 2016

Kupid's Play offers the opportunity to be a part of innovative global marketing communications strategies that bridge the music industry and the health and...

Bruce Springsteen cancels MSG show due to snowstorm. What does he do? Gives everyone a free concert download

Bruce Springsteen fans who bought tickets for his appearance at Madison Square Garden last night — only to see the show postponed thanks to...

A Robot Just Solved The Rubik’s Cube In 1 Second. RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

By the time you finished reading the word 'you' in this sentence, a robot completed the Rubik's Cube. Software engineers Jay Flatland and Paul...

The trailer for the most Boston movie ever made

“Boston Accent” is a Late Night parody trailer starring host Seth Meyers as every Boston character Hollywood portrays. https://youtu.be/rLwbzGyC6t4

Steve Earle Knows His Rock And Roll History

Being a folk singer is being a musicologist. I came up in the coffeehouses, I had the Harry Smith anthology on vinyl, and...

Canadian Music Week Announces “CMW Startup Launch Pad” A Competition For New Businesses

Canadian Music Week is thrilled to announce the "CMW Startup Launch Pad", a pitch competition for new businesses that are based in, or connected...

SOCAN Tracks More Record Results In 2015 For Music Creators

Canada emerged as an even greater powerhouse of songwriting, composing and music publishing on a global level in 2015 with domestic and international creative...

Burton Cummings To Be Inducted Into Canadian Music Hall Of Fame

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce Burton Cummings as the 2016 inductee into the Canadian Music Hall...

The Rules Between Wile E. Coyote And The Road Runner Were A Real Thing

Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist is the autobiography of Chuck Jones, the glorious animator behind Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck,...

The Smallest Disco On Earth Is the Size of a Phone Booth…Because It Is A Phone Booth

Even at the best of times, going to a club is a place full of loud music, rowdy people, spilled drinks and 'I LOVE...

The David Bowie-led Group Tin Machine’s TV Special In Full

Tin Machine were an English-American hard rock band formed in 1988, famous for being fronted by English singer-songwriter David Bowie. The band consisted of...

That time in 1987 when The B-52’s, Allen Ginsberg, Nile Rodgers, and David Byrne did an ad for AMFAR

Around the time it became fashionable for music and political and social causes to fit neatly within each other's desires to spread the good...

What Looney Tunes Animator Chuck Jones Can Teach You About Life

Chuck Jones (1912-2002) was an animation director responsible for some of the best films – animated or otherwise – ever made. He directed many...

Ever wondered why airplane windows are round? Here you go.

Released in 1952, the de Havilland Comet was the world’s first commercial jetliner. But engineers did not know at that point that a forgotten...

The Music Industry’s Most-Loved Albums Of All Time, Part 48

This is part 48 of an ongoing series where the kind folk of the music business reveal their favourite album of all time. Ask people...