Though the 2010 installment of he MMVA’s played host to more y’all’s than eh’s than most years, Miley Cyrus, a Texas native, had no trouble entertaining 8,000-plus screaming teens amassed for the event Sunday night.

On the heels of the release of his latest album, Die!, Necro is again facing attacks from critics for his penchant for producing macabre music – something like an audio version of an Eastern European snuff flick.

Shaking a depression was no easy task for Xavier Rudd. In this, the first instalment of 21 Questions, Rudd talks to Martyr Magazine about his recent trials and eventual rebound, and the latest disc, Koonyum Sun.

The fifth full-length by Toronto trio Danko Jones is something like an audio version of an expensive lap dance. Below the Belt, more sex and rock than drugs (but it’s in there too!), boasts a frenetic pace.

Despite, and perhaps as a result of, an onslaught of negative attention surrounding the Georgian luger’s tragic and untimely death, Canada’s 2010 Games attracted record audiences both in Canada and the U.S.

Whether 10 Days Across Canada addressed the evasive question of a Canadian identity is another question. What is certain is that it helped accurately highlight the virtue for which Canadians are best known: kindness.

For laughs, BLOND:ISH attach the prefix blond to everything from entourage to London. Having recently moved to the U.K. from Montreal, the duo’s new home is now known as “Blondon.”

Kim Mitchell has managed to hold on to his retro roots and steadily evolve without the hair plugs, new-age tie-died t-shirts or rocker-fitted Crox shoes. But he has watched the rock world change after decades in the game.

The downfall to living life as a story is playing the role of both the protagonist and antagonist of your own story. Atmosphere’s Slug became the character he created in his rhymes, and paid the price.

At only 22, Care Failure has the rock scars to back a claim to fame. Plucked off the streets and out of the depths of drug addiction five years ago by the former president of EMI, Failure is a self-admitted “mess.”