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  Barenaked Ladies Cheat Apocalypse With '2013 Last Summer on Earth' Tour | ARTICLE

  With the apocalypse firmly in mind, Barenaked Ladies put together their Last Summer on Earth Tour in 2012 – and now that they've lived to see another year, they are repeating the formula. On June 17th,...

  March 18, 2013 7:00 AM ET
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  Patti Smith Holds Court at Toronto Art Gallery | ARTICLE

  Death was a common theme at Patti Smith's first of two back-to-back sold-out concerts on Thursday at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, where the exhibit Camera Solo, comprising 75 of her Polaroid photographs and...

  March 8, 2013 12:00 PM ET
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  Drake Joins Justin Bieber Onstage | VIDEO

  Justin Bieber helped Drake fulfill a childhood dream last night at Toronto’s Rogers Centre (originally known as SkyDome), when the rapper joined him onstage for two songs in his hometown's biggest stadium. Breaking from the usual set list...

  December 2, 2012 12:54 PM ET
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  Sheepdogs Trailer Peeks at Documentary | VIDEO

  A movie about the Sheepdogs was in the works before the Canadian rockers won Rolling Stone's first-ever Choose the Cover contest in 2011 – now The Sheepdogs Have at It will premiere December 2nd at the...

  November 30, 2012 11:00 AM ET
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  INXS Split Is 'Very Sad,' Says J.D. Fortune | ARTICLE

  Canadian singer J.D. Fortune, who fronted INXS for six years until last August, tells Rolling Stone he's saddened over the news that INXS have ended their touring career. Drummer Jon Farriss made the announcement in front of...

  November 14, 2012 2:20 PM ET
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  Feist Wins Polaris Prize for 'Metals' | ARTICLE

  Feist's Metals was awarded Canada's coveted $30,000 Polaris Music Prize last night over Drake's Take Care, Kathleen Edwards' Voyageur and seven other releases in a Masons-like secret vote. "Everyone had a favorite here tonight and I did too –...

  September 25, 2012 10:00 AM ET
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  Peaches 'Does Herself' in Outlandish New Musical | ARTICLE

  If Peaches could write her own ending to this phase of her performance career, her campy quasi-autobiographical musical Peaches Does Herself would become a cult classic in the vein of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Audience members...

  September 20, 2012 1:40 PM ET
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  30 Seconds to Mars Documentary Wins People's Choice Award in Toronto | ARTICLE

  Jared Leto gets a laugh when he first appears onscreen in Artifact, the new documentary about his band 30 Seconds to Mars' label troubles, holding his middle finger in the air from under his bedsheets. A bid for the cameraman to...

  September 18, 2012 3:25 PM ET
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  Spike Lee Revisits Michael Jackson's Career for 'BAD 25' Documentary | ARTICLE

  At the outset of BAD 25 – the documentary film celebrating the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's Bad album – director Spike Lee quickly dispenses with talk of the pop superstar's personal struggles, diving right into...

  September 17, 2012 6:15 PM ET
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  Rob Zombie Hits the Right Spooky Notes for 'Lords of Salem' | ARTICLE

  A short sequence of spooky notes is as critical as any character in Rob Zombie’s latest directorial endeavor, The Lords of Salem. The witchy strain lies at the core of all that goes horribly wrong for Heidi...

  September 16, 2012 5:37 PM ET
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  Film Details Contradictory Evidence in West Memphis Three Case | ARTICLE

  After three years in the making and a theatrical release set for December 25th, the filmmakers of West of Memphis still won't mind re-editing their film again and again, until the real killer of three eight-year-old boys...

  September 13, 2012 12:50 PM ET
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  Jeff Buckley and Father Tim Portrayed in New Biopic | ARTICLE

  Greetings From Tim Buckley is a fictionalized account of musician Jeff Buckley's relationship with the father he barely knew, Tim Buckley, a folk music icon who died in 1975 at the age of 28. Jeff died...

  September 12, 2012 1:50 PM ET
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  Paul Thomas Anderson Downplays Scientology Connection in 'The Master' | ARTICLE

  The Master director Paul Thomas Anderson was visibly irritated during a Toronto International Film Festival press conference over the weekend, when a reporter opened the proceedings by alluding to the "elephant in the room that also has...

  September 10, 2012 3:55 PM ET
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  Snoop Lion Endorses Obama | ARTICLE

  During a press conference at the Toronto International Film Festival for his documentary Reincarnated, Snoop Lion (as hip hop star Snoop Dogg now calls himself, since embracing Rastafari and reggae music) told reporters he fully backs...

  September 10, 2012 2:35 PM ET
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  'Reincarnated' Traces Snoop Lion's Rastafarian Awakening | ARTICLE

  The marijuana smoke-filled opening of Reincarnated – the documentary chronicling the personal and spiritual evolution of rapper and one-time gangbanger Snoop Dogg to reggae artist and Rasta Snoop Lion – quickly cuts to shots of a bonfire and...

  September 8, 2012 10:26 AM ET
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  Peaches Shoots 'Free Pussy Riot!' Clip | VIDEO

  As the three young women of feminist punk band Pussy Riot fight for their freedom in a Russian court for "singing" out against President Vladimir Putin, Canadian electro-punk artist Peaches co-wrote a song ...

  August 15, 2012 4:00 AM ET
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  Deadmau5 Plays to Enraptured Crowd at Inaugural Veld Music Festival | ARTICLE

  An unassuming guy in a white Neff ballcap and black Nyan Cat t-shirt kept more than 20,000 EDM revelers enraptured Saturday night with his progressive, ahead-of-the-game house and trance emissions, despite a sudden downpour that fell...

  August 5, 2012 7:10 PM ET
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  Justin Bieber Hosts an Intimate, Acoustic Winter Wonderland | ARTICLE

  Pop heartthrob Justin Bieber delivered a Christmas miracle to his young fans last night with a rare, intimate theater concert at Toronto's Massey Hall. The acoustic performance was taped for the Canadian television special Justin Bieber: Home...

  December 22, 2011 2:00 PM ET
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  Madonna Helms 'Romance of the Century' | ARTICLE

  The Academy Award-winning 2010 film The King's Speech told the story of King George VI of England's stammer and petrifying ascension to the throne. Now the story of his older brother, who abdicated his sovereignty for love, is...

  September 16, 2011 12:50 PM ET
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  New Neil Young Doc Aims for 'More Emotional' Version of Live Shows | ARTICLE

  There was a tiny camera positioned on Neil Young's main microphone for a pair of shows at Massey Hall in his hometown of Toronto this past May that gives new meaning to the phrase "up close...

  September 14, 2011 6:15 PM ET