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Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music Black Box Recordings This week Canadian rapper Shad got a taste of what Polaris Prize jurors went through when debating the merits of his Juno Award-winning album when 'TSOL' went head-to-head with 10 other Canadian albums back in 2010. "It does give a little bit of insight as to what happens in the Polaris backroom," Shad tells Spinner following his [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , Awards Mark Davis, Getty Images "Grammys? It's cool. Electronic music's ripped a f---ing giant new ---hole in that thing, eh?" So sayeth Deadmau5 , the Canadian superstar DJ/producer also known as Joel Zimmerman who is not only up for three Grammy Awards at this year's ceremony -- including Best Dance/Electronica Album for '4x4=12,' Best Dance Recording for 'Raise Your Weapon' and Best Remixed Recording, [...]

Filed under: News , Video , New Music , Exclusive , RPM WME Superstar DJ Paul Van Dyk is gearing up for the release of 'Evolution,' his first album since 2007. And to celebrate, you can have the pleasure of seeing the producer's new video for 'Verano,' complete with futuristic graphics and and trippy visuals. Like any Van Dyk cut, 'Verano' has several elements that make it an instant hit: [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , New Releases Brushfire Records 'Barchords' is the second release by Bahamas -- the alter ego of Toronto singer-songwriter Afie Jurvanen -- and follows up 2009's 'Pink Strat,' a record that thrust the mild-mannered one-time guitar-for-hire into the spotlight through a wave of critical acclaim, capped off with a Juno nomination in the Roots & Traditional category. Jurvanen isn't exactly the folk festival type, though; in fact, the way in [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Getty|Redferns|Getty The day after the 2012 Grammy nominees were announced, the New York Times released an excerpt from an interview with Bon Iver 's Justin Vernon conducted earlier in the year, before he was nominated for four Grammys, including best new artist, best song and record of the year. After claiming his self-titled album "isn't the kind of [...]

The Penelopes are one of a handful of male-led pop duos that we think don't sound like they just crawled out the Simon Cowells rear-end. The Parisian duo, now based in London, are planning to release the follow-up to their first album 'The Arrogance Of Simplicity', which was release on Vitalic's label no less. So far we had the immense 'Now Now Now' which caught our ear with the C902s remix. Well today, we've got their next single and its been remixed by Leeds disco don Edwin Van Cleef. 'Sally In The Galaxy' is a full-fat piece [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Q + A Wendy Bevan In 1902, visionary French filmmaker Georges Méliès released 'Le Voyage Dans la Lune,' known to English-speaking audiences as ' A Trip to the Moon .' Considered the first-ever science-fiction film, the wildly inventive 16-minute silent feature follows a group of astronauts as they blaze a trail into the cosmos. After crashing their rocket into the moon's eye, they take a snooze, explore trippy [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , Awards , Spinner Says Getty Images Imagine you're at a car dealership and you ask the salesman to show you the best new models. You're checking them out, giddy to see this year's cream of the crop, and -- surprise! -- you realize he's trying to sell you on a pre-owned car from 2008. "What gives? That's not new," you say. "Buddy," he says, putting a reassuring hand on your [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Releases Courtesy of Pheromone Recordings Rock music and literature usually inhabit separate ends of the arts and culture spectrum but Dave Bidini , founding member of seminal Canadian art-rock outfit the Rheostatics and current leader of the Bidiniband , is determined to bridge both worlds. The musician has authored 10 books -- including ' On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock ,' which [...]

Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive Courtesy Paper + Plastic Records Break Anchor rose from the ashes of the Suicide Machines . "People don't really know the whole story of the end of the Suicide Machines," frontman Jay Navarro tells Spinner. "In short, I had decided to either to call it quits or just play shows once and awhile." And that's exactly what he did. Navarro found a job and settled into [...]

Having made his name back in the early 00's with releases on Dread, Metlaheadz & Tech Itch amongst others, John Rolodex is making waves again both with his productions and new label Machinist Music. EDJ caught up with one of Canada's original Junglists for a chat about the past, learning from mistakes, the state of the scene at the moment and what the future holds... John Rolodex - Everyday Junglist Guest Mix Vol. 21 EDJ: So, youre name might not be as well known as some [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Pop Culture Getty Images|WireImage After all the endless post-' Saturday Night Live ' hubub , when Lana Del Rey 's debut album 'Born to Die' was finally released last week, it did anything but -- immediately topping iTunes charts around the globe. But a Tumblr image with the heading " Canada's like, 'lol idiots'" soon made the [...]

Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive Courtesy of Secretly Canadian Clavicyclette. Say it three times fast if you can. Most folks might get a little tongue tied but Montreal singer and multi-instrumentalist Little Scream has it down pat after using the fantastical piano-bicycle in her new video for 'Boatman (Live With The Clavicyclette).' "My friend Ian had come across the clavicyclette, made by a great piano man in Montreal named Spike [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , RPM , New Music , Q + A Tim Saccent As genre-defying Minnesota-born, Brooklyn-based visual artist/producer Mux Mool prepares to release his sophomore LP, 'Planet High School,' he sat down with Spinner/RPM to discuss his beautiful, frenetic collection of melancholic synth-funk instrumentals, the fate of America's youth, his pursuit of happiness and why he'd rather remix Smokey Robinson than Lil Wayne or Drake . [...]

On March 5 (Beatport) and March 13 (worldwide) LA producer Keenhouse will be back with a new EP on Sunlinxx Records entitled "Better Days". Apparently the days have been so good so Mr Keenhouse has included not one, but two tracks called "Better Days", with the obvious goal to double the goodness. And good they, indeed, are. I really, really like how he has transformed his sound from a softer more dreamwave sound, to a deeper garage sound. Don't get me wrong, I liked him before, but I think I like this even better. Apart from [...]

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Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Dusdin Condren Sharon Van Etten is boiling water to make a cup of tea in her New York apartment. Normally, this wouldn't be of note, except for the fact that she hasn't had a place to call her own in over a year. Since the release of her sophomore album, 'Epic,' Van Etten spent her life on the [...]

Yashi's first release is a unique deep house track produced by Istra Tec & Cosmin Dias, two of the best upcoming romanian producers. With a flowing piano tune, deep bassline and smooth hats to complete the groove, "Pretty Faces" is so easy going that it can be listened at any time of the day or played as a special track in warm-ups. The release includes "Original Mix" and "Chiro Remix".

Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , Awards Josh Ostroff, AOL Another year, another Juno nominees list that reads like the actual year in music -- and not just Canadian music -- with nominations going to North America's biggest stars, from Drake and DeadMau5 to Justin Bieber and Michael Buble to Feist and F---ed Up . (And, yes, to Nickelback [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Pop Culture Jeff Kravitz, FilmMagic As the media, and presumably a few prudes, get all a-twitter about M.I.A. 's flipped middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show, it's easy to forget why she was up there in the first place. Yes, she was an invited guest, but Madonna is no, well, madonna. Madge has repeatedly tried to maintain late-career relevancy by co-opting [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , RPM Jerritt Clark, Getty Images Irreverent up-and-coming hip-hop act Das Racist and dubstep-inspired singer-songwriter James Blake will share the stage with avant-garde legends Philip Glass , Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at the 22nd Annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 13. The lineup, which also features Antony Hegarty, [...]