Choclair

Muskoka's Tall Pines Music & Arts Festival Welcomes Sloan, Moist for 2025

PUBLISHED Dec 12, 2024

Returning to Gull Lake Park in Gravenhurst, ON, for its fourth year, Muskoka's Tall Pines Music & Arts Festival organizers have announced...

Canadian National Exhibition Gets Haviah Mighty, the Sheepdogs, Dionne Warwick and More for 2023 Bandshell Lineup

PUBLISHED Jul 17, 2023

The Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) is running from August 18 to September 4 at Toronto's Exhibition Place grounds this summer, and the...

JUNO Awards to Celebrate 50th Anniversary of Hip-Hop with Kardinal Offishall, Haviah Mighty, Michie Mee

PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2023

This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, which traces back to DJ Kool Herc's performance at a party on August 11, 1973. To mark the...

Drake and the All Canadian North Stars Pulled Out All the Stops to Honour Toronto's Hip-Hop and R&B History

History, July 28

PUBLISHED Jul 29, 2022

OVO Fest seems like an insidious inside joke between Drake and the City of Toronto to see how many days each year they can convince Toronto...

Drake Unveils All Canadian North Stars Lineup with k-os, Keshia Chanté, Kardinal Offishall, Jully Black, Shawn Desman

PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2022

Drake's OVO is paying homage to Canadian hip-hop and R&B royalty with the unveiling of his All Canadian North Stars event lineup, which inc...

Choclair and Canada's Hip-Hop Renaissance

Eyes On the Prize: Turning "Northern Touch" Into Midas Touch

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 1999

It's been a decade since Maestro Fresh Wes "Let Your Backbone Slide" and took hip-hop music in Canada into uncharted waters. It was a pione...