If you had to name an early winner following the announcement of the 2012 JUNO Award nominees, it would have to be William Shatner. The Montreal native, best known to those under 25 as “the Priceline guy,” received the biggest pop when he was announced as the host for the 43rd edition of the awards. [...]

Toronto-based musician Slakah the Beatchild is best known as a hip-hop and R&B producer, having made beats for artists like Drake and Melanie Durrant. On his latest album, The Other Side of Tomorrow, the first release from his “band” The Slakadeliqs (“band” in quotes, because he does it all himself), he changed direction and paid [...]

There are two major problems with Take Care, the second official studio album from Torontonian rap mega-star Drake. First, and most prominently, is Drake’s weird tendency for sitting on the fence between pop star and MC. On one hand, Drizzy loves making pop music. The sad, forlorn, puppy-dog eyed version of Aubrey Graham that appears [...]

Arcade Fire chats with CTV’s Tanya Kim at the 2011 Juno Awards. Canadian music is world-class stuff, that’s no secret. Unfortunately, not everything or everyone that has represented the True North Strong and Free on the global sales charts have been in tune with the tastes of listeners back home. And, even worse, the same [...]

This weekend in Toronto: un festival du film français, a vintage super-sale, an hour of energy-conserving darkness, an extended retro dance party, Drake hosts the Juno Awards, and the National Theatre of the World tackles Sam Shepard.

Photo by Bradley J. Reinhardt from the Torontoist Flickr Pool. “When I was a kid and I started doing this, I thought I invented hip hop. And then when I began to leave my little world, where it was all happening in my bedroom in Mount Uniake, and I discovered that there were some other [...]

At one point on his 2010 debut album, Thank Me Later, Aubrey Drake Graham assesses his sudden rise to fame succinctly: “Call me overrated or created or too jaded because any way you put it, bitch, I made it.”

Every Tuesday, Torontoist scours record store shelves in search of the city’s most notable new releases and brings you the best—or sometimes just the biggest—of what we’ve heard in Sound Advice. Given that he was once nothing but the Bar Mitzvahed Forest Hill dweller who played the token handicapped black kid on Degrassi, Drake’s current [...]

Kanye West recently took a short break from infuriating everyone in the world and making sweet kicks for the kids to direct a video for Degrassi: The Next Generation alumni Drake (née Aubrey Graham). And Drake recently took a short break from regular summer vacation stuff such as being—along with Michael Jackson’s death—among the most-trended [...]