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Duran Duran to Donate Proceeds After Eagles Of Death Metal Fans 'Save A Prayer' Campaign

Duran Duran to Donate Proceeds After Eagles Of Death Metal Fans 'Save A Prayer' Campaign EODM fans' song request statement — photo credit: Eagles Of Death Metal For No. 1 Facebook pageDuran Duran frontman Simon LeBon will donate all the band's proceeds from Eagles of Death Metal's cover of their 1982 hit, "Save A Prayer," to something "useful,…

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'Out For A Rip' Guys Give To Jays Care With 'Home Run Anthem'

'Out For A Rip' Guys Give To Jays Care With 'Home Run Anthem' The Toronto Blue Jays baseball team's 2015 season has been full of improbable events. The team, which was below .500 nearly two-thirds of the way through their schedule, made a series of trades that propelled them into top spot in their division and into the Major League Baseball playoffs for the first time in…

WE Day Toronto Brings Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Hozier & More To Celebrate Social Change

WE Day Toronto Brings Demi Lovato, Nick Jonas, Hozier & More To Celebrate Social Change WE Day, a massive initiative of Free The Children, came to Toronto earlier today and with it superstar celebrities like entertainer and event host Demi Lovato, musical acts Nick Jonas, Carly Rae Jepsen and Hozier, and former basketball great Earvin "Magic" Johnson, who were all there to salute the many…

Crowded House, Benedict Cumberbatch 'Help Is Coming' Song And Video To Help Refugees

30 Years of Farm Aid: Why Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp Still at It

30 Years of Farm Aid: Why Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp Still at It Farm Aid principals Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews — photo credit: Paul Natkin/Photo Reserve, Inc.CHICAGO — To say that Farm Aid, the annual music festival fundraiser for family farms and farmers, “celebrated” its 30th anniversary this month at…

D.O.A.'s Joey Keithley Talks Hamilton Protest Shows, #ImagineOct20th, Activating Youth And Pipeline Fever

Feist, Dan Mangan, David Usher Playing #ImagineOct20th Before Canadian Election

Feist, Dan Mangan, David Usher Playing #ImagineOct20th Before Canadian Election When American election season rolls around the high-profile "Rock The Vote" campaign frequently kicks in to engage young voters. A different type of vote-rocking has emerged in the lead-up to the Canadian federal election happening Oct. 19. A collective of musicians, including some notable names such as Feist, Dan…

Sun Life's Commitment to Music & other Charities Cool for Insurance Company

Sun Life's Commitment to Music & other Charities Cool for Insurance Company Sarah McLachlan and Sun Life's Paul Joliat (top left) with students during a donation event at Toronto's Regent Park School of Music — photo courtesy of Sun Life Financial.Sun Life Financial has been around more than 150 years and is one of the biggest insurance companies…

Musician Nurse Cycling Across Canada To Support David Suzuki Blue Dot Plan

Gord Bamford Golf Event Raises Half-Million For Charity

Gord Bamford Golf Event Raises Half-Million For Charity 8th Annual Gord Bamford at his 8th annual Charity Golf Classic — photo courtesy of Sony Music Canada.Country musician Gord Bamford may have just scored a charitable hole-in-one as his 8th Annual Gord Bamford Charity Golf Classic raised an astounding $508,350 on Aug. 12-13. Bamford, a 19-time CCMA…

Late Jazz Great Oscar Peterson Possessions Being Auctioned For World Vision

Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler, Duran Duran's Roger Taylor Contribute Music To Unique Peace Tracks Project

Dirty Heads Back Up Their Lyrics By Helping Oxfam

Dirty Heads Back Up Their Lyrics By Helping Oxfam Jared “Dirty J” Watson, Matt Ochoa and an Oxfam volunteer named Elizabeth in Boston at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion — photo credit: Bob Ferguson.When the members of Huntington Beach, California reggae rock band Dirty Heads were recording their fourth album, 2014's Sound of Change, last year, they had an…

Avril Lavigne Q&A: Singer Talks Foundation, Special Olympics and Lyme Disease

Avril Lavigne Q&A: Singer Talks Foundation, Special Olympics and Lyme Disease Avril Lavigne — screenshot from video for charity single,Avril Lavigne isn’t letting Lyme Disease stop her from doing a world of good for others. The philanthropic singer is still recovering from the debilitating illness that is caused by the bite of an infected…