Musicians
Singer Ali Milner Turns Light On Depression
Singer Ali Milner Turns Light On Depression Ali Milner, once signed to ex Canadian Idol judge Zack Werner’s record label and most recently a top 3 finalist on reality talent search Cover Me Canada, has written a song to benefit the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, which provides education and program support to help reduce depression-related teenage…
Band Auctions Painting By YouTube's Mysterious Drawing Hands
Band Auctions Painting By YouTube's Mysterious Drawing Hands Julian Taylor with the kids at Camp OochigeasFormer Staggered Crossing singer Julian Taylor recruited painter and YouTube mystery man The Drawing Hands to film the creation of a watercolour for the video to his song “Never Gonna Give You Up.” The resulting painting is now up for auction to…
Our Lady Peace Helps Boxing Legend Knock Sense Into Kids
Our Lady Peace Helps Boxing Legend Knock Sense Into Kids (L to R): Duncan Coutts, Raine Maida, George Chuvalo, Eric Lawrence, Steve Mazur, Jeremy Taggart — (photo credit: Luther Mallory)Canadian rock band Our Lady Peace will be donating a lump sum to boxing legend and public speaker George Chuvalo’s charity, which allows him to speak to young people about…
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone
Seminal Canadian Bands Donate Rarities For Kids Help Phone Sloan, Grapes of Wrath, Doughboys, Jane Siberry, Change of Heart and the Pursuit of Happiness are just some of the acts whose rare or previously unreleased songs have been licensed for free to Have Not Been The Same: the CanRock Renaissance 1985-95, an album benefitting Kids Help Phone. All…
Singer Meredith Shaw Inspires Girls To Reach Their Goals
Singer Meredith Shaw Inspires Girls To Reach Their Goals Meredith Shaw (top centre) and the Girls Inc. girls are all smiles after Shaw's performance.In song lyrics and artworks and everyday goals, there’s a single expression — distinctly paradoxical — that’s at the heart of what drives most toward their ambitions: we approach closer to our real selves the…
F**ked Up Singer, MuchMusic Host Wants Investigation Into Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women
F**ked Up Singer, MuchMusic Host Wants Investigation Into Missing And Murdered Aboriginal Women Damian AbrahamPunk singer and MuchMusic host Damian Abraham wasn’t fully up on the statistics regarding missing or murdered Aboriginal women in Canada when his hardcore band Fucked Up won the 2009 Polaris Music Prize and he announced he was doing a charity…
Rob Zombie: Animals Always Need To Be Protected
Rob Zombie: Animals Always Need To Be Protected Sheri Moon with her co-star in The Lords of SalemRob Zombie directs people burning at the stake, bashing in heads and just does nasty things in general to the Homo sapiens in his new horror film, The Lords of Salem, but the gorgeous Golden Retriever remains safe and sound. Zombie, who also fronts his…
The Musical Ladies of Ladybird Animal Sanctuary
The Musical Ladies of Ladybird Animal Sanctuary (L to R) Janine Stoll, Lisa Winn, Melissa McClelland, co-founders of Ladybird Animal SanctuaryIt is relatively commonplace for people to donate money and their time to a wide range of charities and good causes. It takes a different level of commitment to go out and create your own charitable organization.…
Why Peaches Supported Pussy Riot
Why Peaches Supported Pussy Riot Risqué musician and performance artist Peaches felt compelled to do something to support female Russian punk collective Pussy Riot's right to free speech and radical style of artistic expression because she both identified with them and realized her name could reach different ears globally. In March, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22; Maria Alyokhina, 24, and…
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry
Feist Opposes Mega Quarry Feist accepts Polaris Music Prize cheque from Arcade Fire (right) and show hosts (left) — photo credit: Dustin RabinFeist doesn’t know how she will use the $30,000 she just received as winner of the 2012 Polaris Music Prize, declaring Metals the year’s best Canadian album, but she is contemplating donating part or all of it. “…
Owl City Rocks The Red Kettle For The Salvation Army
Owl City Rocks The Red Kettle For The Salvation Army Owl City's Adam Young serving food at a Dallas Salvation Army post (photo courtesy of Salvation Army)For every date on his current North American tour, musician Owl City is rocking the ‘red kettle’ for the Salvation Army. The “Fireflies” and “Good Time” hitmaker, born Adam Young in Owatonna, Minnesota…
Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book
Jared Leto Photographs Hardship And Hope In Haiti For Charity Book Jared Leto took on a multi-national record company that sued his rock band 30 Seconds To Mars for $30 million, but the devastation that remains in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake that killed 300,000 people and affected 3 million is a task that requires the whole world to chip in to fix…
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School
Nelly Furtado's 'Spirit Indestructible' Tanks Help Build Girls School Nelly Furtado's Spirit Indestructible tank top also comes in white (photo credit: AR Solutions)Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado just released her new album, The Spirit Indestructible, a title inspired by a story in the book Me To We, but for the past few months Free The…
As I Lay Dying Singer's Orphanage Visits Shapes Charitable Apparel Line
As I Lay Dying Singer's Orphanage Visits Shapes Charitable Apparel Line As I Lay Dying's Tim Lambesis in Modern Rebellion TeeAs I Lay Dying’s Tim Lambesis definitely practices what he preaches. The lead singer for the California metal band is co-owner of clothing line Modern Rebellion Apparel and gives half of his profits to a charity for orphans…
My Darkest Days Rocker Thinks Pink For Grandma
My Darkest Days Rocker Thinks Pink For Grandma Sal Coz Costa with grandmother Monique (photo credit: Michael Hurcomb)Maybe a light pink guitar seems a little soft for a hard rock band like Canada’s My Darkest Days, but this custom-made Flying V, made especially for mohawked axeman Sal Coz Costa for a 53-date arena tour with Nickelback, was to be auctioned…