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WATCH: Andrew Cole's #NoJoke Anti-Bullying Trailer Features Patrick Stewart, Slash, Jane Lynch, More
WATCH: Andrew Cole's #NoJoke Anti-Bullying Trailer Features Patrick Stewart, Slash, Jane Lynch, More Andrew Cole — photo providedToronto-based musician Andrew Cole has spent the last few years confronting bullying and it turns out he's got a number of high-profile allies helping him with his cause. Cole's quest to record an anti-bullying song has…
Arkells Launch The Rally Concert Event To Support Refugee Health Charity
Arkells Launch The Rally Concert Event To Support Refugee Health Charity Arkells — photo via Big HassleCanadian rock band Arkells have launched their own hometown music festival in Hamilton, Ontario called The Rally and area refugee causes will benefit from the mega-concert. The event will take place June 23 at Hamilton's Tim Hortons Field and will…
Watch: Drake Challenges People To "Be Nice To Each Other" With God's Plan Video
Watch: Drake Challenges People To "Be Nice To Each Other" With God's Plan Video Drake comforts mother and son — screencap via Drake's YouTube channelDrake is using the release of his newest music video "God's Plan" to challenge people to "be nice to each other." Leading up to the release of "God's Plan" on Feb. 16, the pop star called the…
10 Important Songs For International Clash Day
10 Important Songs For International Clash Day The Clash — photo via Sony MusicWhen punk rockers The Clash were active between 1976 to 1986, the band led by Joe Strummer used their music to confront things like racism, police brutality, classism, terrorism, capitalism and pretty any other related cause that could negatively impact young people. More than…
Paul Simon Plans to Do Charity Shows After Farewell Tour
Paul Simon Plans to Do Charity Shows After Farewell Tour Paul Simon promo shot, 2016Paul Simon who begins his Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour in Vancouver in mid-May, plans to follow it up with “the occasional” concert in a hall and “donate those earnings to various philanthropic organizations, particularly those whose objective is to save the planet,…
Recording Academy Announces Task Force After Uproar Over Women "Step Up" Comment
Recording Academy Announces Task Force After Uproar Over Women "Step Up" Comment Cyndi Lauper — screenshot from Grammy 2018 interview. Following upsetting and out-of-touch comments Recording Academy president/CEO Neil Portnow made after the Grammy Awards Sunday night (Jan. 28), calling for women to “step up” if they want to be executives in the…
Blues Brothers Winter Blues-themed Benefit Show To Support CAMH
Blues Brothers Winter Blues-themed Benefit Show To Support CAMH (L to R): Wayne Catania, Dan Akroyd, Kieron Lafferty — photo courtesy of the Phoenix Concert Theatre.There's going to be a Blues Brothers party in Toronto to combat the blues. More specifically, The Official Blues Brothers Revue, featuring Kieron Lafferty as the 1980's film character Elwood…
WATCH and READ Rapper Logic's Message at 60th Grammy Awards: Hate is Ugly
WATCH and READ Rapper Logic's Message at 60th Grammy Awards: Hate is Ugly Rapper Logic used his time in the Grammy Awards spotlight last night (Jan. 28) to declare that "hate is ugly" and "women are as precious as they are stronger than any man." Logic's hard-hitting message came during his performance of his suicide prevention anthem "1-800-273-8255…
60th Grammy Nominee Compilation Album Proceeds to Support MusiCares
60th Grammy Nominee Compilation Album Proceeds to Support MusiCares Album of the Year winner Bruno Mars, plus Lorde, Kendrick Lamar and Lady Gaga are some of the high-profile names attached to the 2018 Grammy Nominees album, a recently-release compilation record which is dedicating part of the proceeds from its sales towards the music industry charity,…
Q&A: Milck Empowers #MeToo and Answers How Men Can Help
Q&A: Milck Empowers #MeToo and Answers How Men Can Help Milck in still from Milck, the 30-year-old Los Angeles-based Atlantic Records signing born Connie Lim, calls the #MeToo movement that’s gone global — and called out many high profile men for their inappropriate and often criminal conduct — “a very carnal way of us manifesting our resistance,”…
Q&A: Busty And The Bass Want to Incorporate School Visits on Tour
Q&A: Busty And The Bass Want to Incorporate School Visits on Tour Busty and the Bass — photo by Greg McCahonThere are a few cliche things emerging pop bands are known to do once they start to make it. Maybe it's a fancy new car, or clothes, or maybe some wild parties where who knows what'll happen? It's entirely possible Montreal-based nine-piece…
12 Civil Rights Inspired Songs For Martin Luther King Jr. Day
12 Civil Rights Inspired Songs For Martin Luther King Jr. Day Martin Luther King Jr. — photo via Library of Congress, creative commonsJanuary 15 marks Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the annual federal holiday honouring late civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King, who received a Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through non-…
Going to iHeartRadio Jingle Ball? Bring a New Unwrapped Toy or Gift Card
Going to iHeartRadio Jingle Ball? Bring a New Unwrapped Toy or Gift Card After a successful inaugural iHeartRadio Jingle Ball North last year at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre, Bell Media has added a charity component to the sold-out concert tomorrow (Dec. 9), asking the 13,000 concert-goers to bring a new unwrapped toy or gift card for the CP24 CHUM…
Bruce Springsteen "Land of Hope & Dreams" T-Shirt Supports Why Hunger
Bruce Springsteen "Land of Hope & Dreams" T-Shirt Supports Why Hunger Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen has long collected dry goods and money for food banks at his concerts, but not at his current Broadway run. Instead, he's endorsed a t-shirt to help ease hunger in America. The veteran rock musician's inspirational song "Land of Hope…
Vegas Strong Benefit Concert To Feature The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Boyz II Men
Vegas Strong Benefit Concert To Feature The Killers, Imagine Dragons, Boyz II Men Imagine Dragons — photo via Universal CanadaThe Killers, Imagine Dragons, Boyz II Men, Cirque du Soleil, David Copperfield and Penn & Teller are coming together for the Vegas Strong Benefit Concert, an event to support those affected by the Las Vegas mass shooting which…