Interview

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  'In the Heights' Director Jon M. Chu Wants Audiences to "Dream Bigger"

  PUBLISHED Jun 7, 2021

  "People kept saying, 'This is an on-the-street musical,'" says In the Heights director Jon M. Chu. "Why did they keep saying 'on the street...

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  Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner Is Bringing Joy to the "Fringes of Society"

  PUBLISHED May 31, 2021

  Japanese Breakfast leader Michelle Zauner grew up stuck between two worlds. The only child of a Jewish-American father and Korean mother, h...

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  How DMX Found the Light in His Celebratory Final Chapter, with Some Help from Bono

  PUBLISHED May 28, 2021

  Swizz Beatz remembers the look on his friend Dark Man X's face when he received a gift from Bono. Not only had the U2 frontman blessed the...

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  'This Is the Thing' Paints Hamilton as the "Centre of the Universe in Canada"

  PUBLISHED May 27, 2021

  Tell me you're from Hamilton without telling me you're from Hamilton. This could only ever be a rhetorical question, since most Hamiltonian...

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  Boy Golden Is a Canadian Cannabis Hero

  PUBLISHED May 26, 2021

  If 2021 has a cannabis anthem, it's undoubtedly "Church of Better Daze," the debut single from Winnipeg singer-songwriter Boy Golden. Over...

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  'Cruella' Is Punk, Says Director Craig Gillespie

  PUBLISHED May 25, 2021

  Johnny Rotten. Joey Ramone. Cruella de Vil. Okay, one of those things is not quite like the others, but according to director Craig Gilles...

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  Toronto's Tone Bonk Collective Launches with Tribute to 'Big Shiny Tunes'

  PUBLISHED May 19, 2021

  For Canadians of a certain age (read: millennials), MuchMusic's Big Shiny Tunes compilations were a formative part of a musical education....

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  Vancouver's Nicholas Krgovich and Veda Hille Discuss the Importance of a Hyper-Local Music Scene

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2021

  When Nicholas Krgovich was 15, the budding musician covered a handful of songs by Vancouver singer-songwriter Veda Hille. He copied his hom...