Rich Hil is the son of fashion mogul Tommy Hilfiger. But that’s about the least interesting thing about him. Still in his early twenties, Hil, a rising hip-hop fixation, has in two short years released over 700 songs, dropped myriad freestyles and a number of mixtapes. Over the weekend Lola and Community 54 teamed to present Hil as the headliner to a Christmas party rounded out by acts like TF House and Boobonic.
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When Ariel Helwani left home a decade ago to study at Syracuse University’s esteemed school of communications, the Montreal native says he had dreams of becoming the next “Bob Costas or Marv Albert. But when I got there,” he says, “I realized everyone wanted to be the same person that I wanted to be.” Read the full story »
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It’s was 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday night, I think. My interview with Bach had been scheduled for something like six hours before, but when I couldn’t reach through to his line in New Jersey, Bach’s publicist told me to “just keep trying.” I did.
When Lindsay Ferguson wrote the lyrics a few years back to the title track of her new album Monkeys Under Stars, she knew instantly that it would be her album title.
In this MartyrTV exclusive, Ryan Guldemond and Jasmin Parker (keys, vox) of Mother Mother explain why the Quadra Island, BC, collective remains as quaint today as a small town and as close as a family.
Miriam Moufide, aka The Gangstress but perhaps best known as Empire ISIS, has made it around the world and back, making sure to leave her mark wherever she goes. “Since the beginning of my career I’ve been about new styles.”
When I asked Ben Caplan during the Southern Ontario stop on the Canadian leg of his recent tour, how it’s been going since his new album came out, his response was curt: “I’ve been touring like a mother fucker!”
“Some people find it weird that I’m in a band with my brother and boyfriend,” says The Balconies’ Jacquie Neville. “I think it’s amazing, since I always have my two favourite people with me, I never get homesick.”
“Basically I was discovered ‘cause of the internet. But you come to L.A. with a little bit of heat on you and people blow smoke up your ass,” says Jon Lajoie. “You have to take it all with a grain of salt.”
“If we weren’t confident in the material going into the studio we probably would have felt the pressure,” said Max Kerman, lead man for The Arkells, reached by phone yesterday on the eve of the release of Michigan Left.
Synth-pop princess Lights is something of a total package – she has the looks, brains, heart and sound. Her style alone, ripped threads and a body adorned with ink, sets her apart from the other pretty ponies in the pack.
Over a 20-year career, Evidence has used metaphor most often as his narrative tool of choice. With his sophomore offering, a follow-up to The Weatherman LP, the prolific rapper has cooked up an auditory hurricane.
It’s not uncommon for Hawksley to drop multiple records in a single year. Over his decade-plus on the scene, he’s released 13 studio albums and produced more than three dozen more for artists ranging from Tegan and Sara to Great Big Sea.
Despite the recent success of homegrown artists and entertainers from Drake, Justin Bieber and Nickelback to Ellen Page, Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen, a poll finds Canadians are one of the least cool nations on the planet.
Honours for excellence in Canadian TV will be doled out tonight in as the 26th annual Gemini Awards take to the Canadian Broadcasting Centre. The show is being hosted by Canadian comic Russell Peters.
It’s been 20 years since the iconic Canadian group Organized Rhyme released an album and even longer since they shared the same studio. Recently, two-thirds of the trio reunited to record a 2011 version of Check the OR.
Chronicling the experiences of one of this country’s greatest “scribblers” – novelist, essayist, journalist, and screenwriter, Mordecai Richler – would seem an enviable task for a contemporary Canadian author.
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.
Every day is someday to Garnet Clare. He wakes up, eats his bacon and eggs, goes to work and postpones everything while looking at smiles. Clare didn’t have to look far for the inspiration for his first solo album Everyday In The Life.
The band’s latest offering, Better Off, is the first of three Ten Second Epic albums to not be produced by Garth Richardson (Atreyu, Chevelle, Mudvayne). This time around, the band hired 54-40 guitarist Dave Genn to man the boards.
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