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Over 50 Mute Records artists, past and present, are offering up interpretations of John Cage’s famously ”silent” composition for the label's 40th anniversary.
The 2016 edition of Pop Montreal happens September 21 - 25 at venues all over the city. It's the 15th anniversary of the festival and they've just announced the finalized lineup...
The long list for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, Canada's annual award for a great album, has been announced. It includes Drake, The New Pornographers, Death From Above 1979, Caribou, Alvvays, White Lung, Viet Cong, METZ, Cold Specks, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Patrick Watson, Absolutely Free, Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah, Braids, Tobias Jesso Jr an...
After weeks of will-he-or-won't-he speculation, enigmatic R&B recluse D'Angelo made good on his promise to headline the 2014 Afropunk festival in Brooklyn on Sunday night...
Cold Specks at Webster Hall in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield)
Canadian goth-inflected soul songwriter Cold Specks, who is playing AfroPunk this weekend in Brooklyn, will release Neuroplasticity on August 25, including two songs that feature Swans Michael Gira...