While “Casual Sex” doesn’t quite pick up where “Every Lie” left off – and the video may very well be the highlight of the first single off the band’s highly-anticipated sophomore offering – here’s hoping Alan Cross is right and Sick and Twisted Affair is further proof that the world does belong to My Darkest Days.

Chances are street chemists will in time figure out how to break OxyNeo down to a form that can be consumed but, as it stands, tens of thousands of OxyContin addicts in this country alone are looking to other drugs to find their fix after February.

“The Hangover” is likely to be the last video from Class’s Handshakes and Middle Fingers – easily the most successful of the Halifax rapper’s fourteen studio albums – as it marks the sixth single from the March 2011 release.

Described in past as one of Canada’s best up-and-coming acts, Vancouver’s Hey Ocean! has established itself in years of late as one of the country’s premier pop-rock outfits. The latest from the trio is a video for the title track off the band’s Big Blue Wave EP.

Rap and roll has come leaps and bounds since Aerosmith, Run-D.M.C. and producer Rick Rubin first merged the two in the late 80s – that blessed period in music when white American suburbanites learned to “Walk This Way.”

Somali-Canadian rapper K’Naan has been quiet in terms of new projects since the release of Troubadour. But the inspirational 34-year-old singer, poet and activist is back with a five-track EP entitled More Beautiful Than Silence.

In addition to four EPs – KOP, Banned From America, M.A.D.E. (2011) and Little Monster (2012) – Madchild is also set to unveil his first solo LP Dope Sick in 2012. The album is slated for release later this month.

“The Mustard Station,” produced by and featuring Moka Only, is a spin-off of sorts from the VIA Tour. The song is part of the 19-track Train of Thought Tour Mixtape, which features vocals from D-Sisive and production by Rich Kidd.

“If this war is never ending,” croons Lights on the latest off her Siberia album, “I’ll take this love down with me.” An anti-war anthem, “Banner” marks the second single off the Northern Ontario songstress’s sophomore album.

While the John Lennon and Brian Wilson references are no doubt present on the fourth single off D-Sisive’s Run With The Creeps, “The Invisible Man” is one of the songs from the dark side of the Toronto rapper’s 2011 release.