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Jann Klose, 'Doing Time' -- Video Premiere

The use of stop-motion animation doesn't happen in music videos too often these days, but that ... Read More »

You Oughta Know: Braids

Braids are currently in the blog-hype crosshairs -- and though these 20-year-olds are perhaps too ... Read More »

Amelia Curran Coming Home for the Juno Awards

Amelia Curran's nomination for solo Roots and Traditional Album of the Year makes her the only ... Read More »

Lucie Idlout's Hard-Rocking 'Swagger' Up for 'Best Aboriginal Album' Juno Award

Inuk singer-songwriter Lucie Idlout was thirty kilometres outside of the far-north city of Iqaluit ... Read More »

Classified Predicts Juno Awards Will Be 'Nuts'

East Coast rapper Classified clearly remembers when the Juno Awards took place in his hometown of ... Read More »

We Are Wolves Have a Flower Fetish

Vincent Levesque would love to garden more. "I just re-potted a plant yesterday," the We Are Wolves ... Read More »

You Oughta Know: Dinosaur Bones

Dinosaur Bones' singer-guitarist Ben Fox and keyboardist Dave Wickland are proof that quitters can ... Read More »

Rivers Cuomo Digs Female Tribute Band, Sheezer

Usually when a group devotes itself to another band's catalogue, they're sentencing themselves to a ... Read More »

You Oughta Know: Doug Paisley

Doug Paisley is having an identity crisis. When describing his sound, critics drop references to ... Read More »

Woodpigeon Album Inspired by Emigré Grandparents

Listening to Calgary indie ensemble Woodpigeon, you'd never get the sense that songwriting was ... Read More »

You Oughta Know: The Balconies

The all-in-the-family dynamic has always been an interesting part of music making -- and marketing. ... Read More »

Beast's Shocking Grammy Nom Takes the Sting Out of Struggle

At the 2010 Grammys, the dark horse of the Best Short Form Video category is a clangy, sexy, funky ... Read More »

Evening Hymns Beat Writer's Block with 'Spirit Guides'

Writer's block is a common plague of the wordsmith. But small-town Ontario musician Jonas Bonnetta, ... Read More »

Diamond Rings: You Oughta Know

One of the hottest music videos to hit your inbox last summer featured a lycra-clad singer shaking ... Read More »

D'Urbervilles Next Record: Cottage Life Meets Rage Against the Machine?

When the D'Urbervilles release their sophomore record, it will be interesting to see how much of ... Read More »

You Oughta Know: Warp Records' Newest Act, Babe Rainbow

Vancouver's Babe Rainbow is like a pot of gold at the end of the blogroll of cookie-cutter ... Read More »