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Matisyahu Spaces Out | ARTICLE

There's one thing Hasidic reggae man Matisyahu won't do on his new U.S. tour: stage dive. "There's a law that no man and woman may touch unless they're married," says the twenty-six-year-old MC. "I was caught doing it. So...
November 8, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Clay Aiken Spreads Joy | ARTICLE

Halloween has only just ended, but Clay Aiken will kick off his second annual holiday tour in support of last year's Merry Christmas With Love tonight in Vancouver. The 2005 edition of the Joyful Noise Tour will...
November 2, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Our Lady Peace Get Well | ARTICLE

"I was done, done, done," Our Lady Peace frontman Raine Maida says of nearly quitting the rock band he's led for thirteen years during the making of its new album, Healthy in Paranoid Times, out today. ...
August 30, 2005 12:00 AM ET
DFA 1979 Feel the QOTSA | ARTICLE

After two U.S. headlining club tours, Toronto rock duo Death from Above 1979 have been handpicked to open for Queens of the Stone Age and Nine Inch Nails when they kick off their North American arena tour...
August 18, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Rolling Stones Surprise Toronto | ARTICLE

After a month of rehearsals in Toronto in preparation for their world tour, which launches August 21st at Boston's Fenway Park, the Rolling Stones gave the city a big thank you last night by performing an eighty-minute,...
August 11, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Ben Moody Gets Life After Amy Lee | ARTICLE

Evanescence co-founder Ben Moody, whose "Everything Burns" with Anastacia is the first single off the Fantastic Four soundtrack, is facing his demons on a solo debut set for release this fall. "It's a rock record, but it's a...
July 12, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Outlets Pull Alanis Morissette CD | ARTICLE

Alanis Morissette is causing quite a stir north of the border for choosing to sell her latest release, the tenth-anniversary, acoustic version of her blockbuster Jagged Little Pill, exclusively through Starbucks in North America. As of yesterday,...
June 15, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Soundtrack of Our Lives Open "Vol. 1" | ARTICLE

During the studio sessions for Origin Vol. 1, the Soundtrack of Our Lives amassed nearly fifty songs. The Swedish rockers -- now billed in the U.S. as "The Soundtrack of Our Lives (T.S.O.O.L)," per the request...
March 15, 2005 12:00 AM ET
Ciara Heads to Studio | ARTICLE

Ciara, who recruited Missy Elliot for the track "1, 2 Step" on her debut, Goodies, has returned the favor for the rap star's next album. "She wrote the song and just called me to record," Ciara says of...
December 23, 2004 12:00 AM ET
311 Collab With Rookie | ARTICLE

Four years ago, Daniel Victor, a twenty-one-year-old aspiring musician from Windsor, Ontario, hatched an idea to cold-call his favorite artists and somehow convince them to work with him. By the time he was done, musicians from 311,...
December 22, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Chingy to Tour, Mesmerize | ARTICLE

After chillin' in Louisiana with his family over Christmas, Chingy will hit the road with Snoop Dogg and Juvenile in support of Powerballin', his follow-up to 2003's triple-platinum Jackpot. "I'm gonna headline this tour, going out in...
December 20, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Esthero Plays With Cee-Lo | ARTICLE

Esthero, the sultry singer featured on Black Eyed Peas' "Weekends," will follow her We R in Need of a Musical Revolution! EP (due December 7th) with the full-length Wikked Lil' Grrrls early next year. The album boasts...
November 30, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Stone Meets Rolling Stone | ARTICLE

Joss Stone has earned quite a reputation as an interpreter, putting her soulful stamp on songs by Aretha Franklin and the White Stripes on her debut, 2003's The Soul Sessions. Her latest cover endeavor finds the seventeen-year-old...
August 31, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Christina Milian Gets Cool | ARTICLE

Christina Milian will star in Be Cool, the sequel to the 1995 movie Get Shorty, due in theaters in February. The twenty-two-year-old rising pop star, whose "Dip It Low" is the Number Five single in the country,...
August 20, 2004 12:00 AM ET
William Hung Inspires DVD | ARTICLE

William Hung is going to spend much of 2004 stretching his fifteen minutes of fame. Next up for the University of California engineering student turned American Idol reject, whose Inspiration album debuted at Number Thirty-four in April,...
June 1, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Gene Simmons Is an "Asshole" | ARTICLE

Kiss bassist Gene Simmons plans to hold "asshole parties" to promote his first solo album in twenty-six years. The disc, appropriately titled Asshole, includes contributions from Bob Dylan, Dave Navarro and the late Frank Zappa, and will...
April 22, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Avril Lavigne's Dark Side | ARTICLE

Despite more than ten years difference in age, fellow Canadians Chantal Kreviazuk and Avril Lavigne formed a relationship of mutual respect and sisterhood -- and become songwriting partners -- after they met last summer. "We became really...
April 1, 2004 12:00 AM ET
Alanis Becomes a "Nightmare" | ARTICLE

Faced with the prospect of American radio stations refusing to play her new single, "Everything," Alanis Morissette changed its opening lyrics. The new version begins "I can be a nightmare of the of the grandest kind," as...
March 12, 2004 12:00 AM ET
McLachlan Basks in "Afterglow" | ARTICLE

After a lengthy hiatus, singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan releases her long-awaited fifth album, Afterglow, today. "I've had a luxurious two and a half years off," McLachlan says. "I've had seventeen months with my daughter. I got to make a record at a...
November 4, 2003 12:00 AM ET
The Stones Satisfy Toronto | ARTICLE

The Rolling Stones' concert to aid Toronto rewrote the record books yesterday -- 430,000 people attended the eleven-hour spectacular that also featured Justin Timberlake, AC/DC, the Flaming Lips, the Guess Who and others, making it the largest paid concert ever staged. Dubbed...
July 31, 2003 12:00 AM ET