JUNOFest hitting Toronto starting April 21
The JUNOs aren’t for another month but the party is starting soon, with CBC Music JUNOFest kicking off on April 21, an annual celebration making its triumphant return after two years and filling
Read MoreThe JUNOs aren’t for another month but the party is starting soon, with CBC Music JUNOFest kicking off on April 21, an annual celebration making its triumphant return after two years and filling
Read MoreA new musical supergroup, Lifeline International, is releasing a new cover of a Beatles classic to help benefit UNICEF’s efforts in Ukraine. The efforts of COP International Records founder Christian Petke and producer
Read MoreThe Canadian Music Therapy Fund is kicking off a new initiative to help those struggling from the COVID-19 pandemic: The Road to Recovery. “The last two years have been a challenge for charities.
Read MoreRarely does anything within the music industry move fast. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), however, has a fire lit under it when it comes to addressing the NFT debacle created by
Read MoreWithin a calendar day of making a notoriously terrible first impression, HitPiece has zapped its website back to life, smug and arrogant and going through the motions of being apologetic without actually taking
Read MoreTuesday was a wild day for independent artists and not in a good way. Details are still hazy but what appears to have happened is an NFT site, HitPiece, scraped digital distribution sites
Read MoreIt’s been two long years since COVID rolled around and ruined our fun — and now we can put numbers on the financial hit felt by the concert and music industry. A new
Read MoreNearly a dozen grants have been announced for the seventh round of the MVP Project, providing support to Canadian musicians and filmmakers for the creation of new music videos. The four-year-old MVP Project,
Read MoreIn November 2020, the American Civil Liberties Union issued a statement arguing that using rap lyrics as evidence during a criminal trial was a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution of
Read MoreIn April 2021, Spotify removed more than 40 episodes of the Joe Rogan Experience from its library, episodes that included controversial guests associated with sexual assualt, conspiracy theories, transphobic sentiments and just plain
Read MoreHere’s something you don’t see every day: Two state senators in New York have introduced a bill to stop the use of rap lyrics as evidence in trials. Brad Hoylman and Jamaal Bailey,
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