In 2006, MySpace was reportedly the most popular website in the U.S. Not the most popular social networking site – the most popular ov...

No one gave Andrew Cash much of a chance in the recent federal election. It was the first time that the singer/songwriter and long-time soci...

The sight of a cube van with a trailer parked outside of a venue gets me curious, excited, and even a little nostalgic. Who's playing? Where...

In 1986, a new Toronto band called the Pursuit of Happiness were still finishing their first independent EP when a budding filmmaker friend...

Did you know that Canada supplies around 2.5 percent of all the music consumed every day worldwide? It's a Canadian fact! Okay, it doesn't s...

Bill C-32, the latest attempt to update Canada's creaky old Copyright Act, is currently under review by the Legislative Committee, having un...

As a music-obsessed foodie, I note some interesting parallels between North American food production and the music industry. Both really too...

Bill Baker and his colleagues at Mint Records were in the midst of a tense meeting with an artist they were letting go from the label when i...

Casting around for a convenient opening metaphor, I got it into my noggin to find out the price of tea in China. Turns out it's not so easy...

Compared to the great lumbering Horton that is the American music business, we might as well be Whos up here. With one-tenth the population...

I officially declare the camera phone a scourge. At every show, there's a forest of video-enabled dorks up front, not watching nor listening...