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  • Rotten to the Core: The Sex Pistolsโ€™ Final Blowout at Winterland

    It was a cold January night in 1978 when the Sex Pistols walked onto the stage at San Franciscoโ€™s Winterland Ballroom, readyโ€”or perhaps unwillingโ€”to make history. This wasnโ€™t just a concert; it was the swan song of punkโ€™s most volatile band. The Pistolsโ€™ American tour had been a disaster wrapped in chaos: canceled shows, infighting,…

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  • Girl, You Know It’s False: The Milli Vanilli Lip-Sync Scandal

    In the glittering circus of pop music, where smoke, mirrors, and synthesized beats reign supreme, few scandals hit harderโ€”or landed messierโ€”than the Milli Vanilli debacle of 1990. This wasnโ€™t just a little hiccup in the pop machine. This was a full-on implosion, a moment when the flashy veneer of the music industry was peeled back,…

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  • Shazamfest is Back!

    Back for its 19th edition, Canada’s favourite madcap festival is more flamboyant, more freaky and more family-friendly than ever!

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  • Zebra Stripes & Rock Legends: The Beatles’ Iconic Abbey Road Journey

    54 years back, in a slice of London that was more suburbia than swinging, The Beatlesโ€”rockโ€™s original Fab Fourโ€”stopped traffic, literally and figuratively. It was August 8, 1969, when John, Paul, George, and Ringo strutted down Abbey Road, giving birth to an image as legendary as the riffs on that album. Outside the legendary recording…

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  • An Interview with Andrรฉ Perry, legendary record producer and founder of the fabled Le Studio, Part 2

    Founder of Le Studio, the iconic, pop-culture defining music studio tucked in the Canadian wilderness, Andrรฉ Perry worked with some of the biggest artists in the biz. Did he have any favourites?

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