In case you were off-world recently, you’ve heard about how the CBC’s Fifth Estate shed doubt on the authenticity of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s indigenous heritage. It was a story that rocked so many corners
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Tickets for Taylor Swift’s Vancouver show went on sale earlier this month and people are disappointed that they couldn’t get any. Now they’re blaming Ticketmaster. *Sigh* Let me explain things one more time:
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The big cultural controversy involves the authenticity of Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ancestry, something that was brought into question by a CBC Fifth Estate investigation. Was she in fact born to an American couple of
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An upcoming CBC Fifth Estate program will feature an investigation into the Indigenous heritage of Buffy Sainte-Marie, one of the most iconic singer-songwriters this country has ever produced. Her claims to that ancestry
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Rick Beato is never one to hold back on his opinions. He has a few things to say about Rolling Stone’s recent list of the top 250 guitarists of all time.
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The MuchMusic documentary 299 Queen Street West may have a legal issue. Director Sean Menard says he’s heard from Universal Music Canada that the film includes unlicensed music clips. As reported in Billboard,
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[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] n early 1969, Ken and Dub, two music fans from Los Angeles, found themselves in possession of some unreleased Bob Dylan songs recorded in 1967
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Eric Trump is whiney at the best of times, but this one is fun. He’s claiming that Apple Music is “shadow banning” a single recorded by his wife, Lara. Apparently he thinks it’s
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You have already heard of Noonoouri. She’s not real, but the reaction she’s getting is VERY real. Noonoouri is an AI creation and was “signed” to a record deal with Warner music. A
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Remember that AI mashup of Drake and The Weeknd that freaked out the internet? Neither Drake nor The Weeknd had anything to do with the song, the whole thing being the work of
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Remember the disastrous Fyre Festival? Hundreds of people were suckered into spending big dollars to attend a show in the Bahamas that–to put it mildly–did not deliver on any of its promises. It
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