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“Fuck Madchild” marks the first single off the upcoming album by Swollen Members’ Madchild. Dope Sick, which will be Madchild’s debut solo release, is set to drop on Battleaxe Records in early 2012.
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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.
As Canadian Music Week comes to an end after five days of limelight for some of the best Canada has to offer, the ears of Torontonians are still ringing from the permeating music festival, which started Wednesday atop the CN Tower.
As part of the government’s belt-tightening measures – that is to say massive cuts to social programs that came via the 2012 federal budget – Katimavik has been forced to close up shop. But not without a fight it seems.
The undisputed heavyweight kings of Canadian metal, Anvil have been pounding the pavement for 30-plus years. But it wasn’t until the release of their 2008 documentary that the Canadian trio got a hug from their homeland.
The video for “Nana Power” is dedicated to Amina Filali, the 16-year-old girl from Larache, Morocco, who committed suicide by swallowing rat poison after she was forced to marry the man who raped her.
Perhaps the roar of fabled and proverbial fighter jets overhead in Ottawa has deafened the capital city’s press corps, but its puzzling me why this ridiculous “F-35 debacle” has overshadowed perhaps the most important budget in the country’s history.
As TMZ and Rolling Stones magazine report, Tom Gabel, 31, front-man and founder of the band (1997) has come out of a personal closet of gender confliction.
The only thing experimental pop rockers Rikers don’t seem to have on their side is SEO. Not to be confused with Rikers Island prison, the tough-to-Google Peterborough quintet may very well be the next IT kids on the Canadian indie scene.
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