Raise your hand if you miss the mid-‘90s. Nothing captured or embodied that optimistic energy in quite the same way as a little magazine fro...

"For as long as I've been doing this, I've been loving hip-hop as hard as I can. And not like in a creepy stalker-boyfriend insecure kind of...

Even with 11 years under its belt, the DJ Olympics is still super-fresh and going strong. Teaming with the Pop Explosion, the Olympics stret...

Take one fiery MC, a secret-weapon DJ, electrified guitar, killer bass lines, explosive drums, two sensuous saxes, and shake well till sweat...

Fall always brings a sense of change; for Halifax label Goodnight Musics, the end of summer signals rap camp conclusion and the arrival of b...

There's a standard arrangement for any hip-hop live show: MCs go up front, DJs stay at the back. It's practical, it works, and until they st...

In this electro-spiked follow-up to his first solo album, Beans uses lots of synth, bells, shrill rings and clangs, and wobbly drum bloops t...

Starting in 1999 as an online magazine and web-development company, URBNET parents Darryl Rodway and Janusz Jarosinski have watched their ba...

Hot damn, I love this band. While they’ve consistently impressed with their live show, they had yet to deliver a comparably magical record....

This is the thing about P-Love: he plays so many roles that you can never really know what to expect from him. Whether manning the decks as...

He calls himself "the magnetic boogeyman," and anyone in the electric Harbourfront crowd would have been hard-pressed to find a more fitting...

This is how it goes down in Canada: while some hip-hop heads bitch and moan about our lack of acceptance and monetary success south of the b...

By now you know that the San Fran Bay has got some crazy talent bubbling all across that big old bridge of theirs, but what you may not know...

One of a Kind is the truth. The mainstay of the music critic, drawing comparison, does not quite apply to a discussion of T-dot/Van-city voc...

Camobear Records was borne from the collective efforts of three long-time friends and displaced Nova Scotians: Cass Elliot, Miles Rubin and...

"Bud Berning awoke in a Mexican hospital tied to a bed, one eye sewn shut, and body crushed.” So opens the press release for Skyrider, a Flo...

Foul Language has been a long time coming for Montreal’s Offsides, and while their heart and hard work may be in the right place, their albu...

They call him the Megacity Mayor, the Prime Minister of the Screwface Capital, and in truth, there are very few individuals in the Toronto r...

Puppyhertz crafts a mean beat, and Animal Squad is a supremely tasty, textured concoction of giggly humour, sensitive eardrums and suave mus...

A loose association of "tribespeople” from Seattle to Vancouver to Toronto make up Renewal, a collection of spoken word, soul crooning and l...