Okay, people, violence is almost always never the answer to things. Rihanna should know better. At a recent concert, the singer hit a fan while walking by the audience. The fan grabbed her arm, maybe a little too aggressively, and when the person wouldn’t let go, Rihanna swung her mic and hit the person’s head. [...]

I have a feeling it’s going to be a good Fourth of July this year. In a Samsung video, Jay-Z announced that his upcoming album, entitled Magna Carta Holy Grail, will be out on July 4th. The clip follows the rapper as he sits in the recording studio, working on various songs of the album [...]

It’s summertime and Cody Simpson has just the song and video for you because he’s just that thoughtful. Seriously. The singer recently released a new video for the song Summertime of Our Lives, a beautiful and simple love song for a long-distance love. Walking around in a tank top and ukulele, Simpson serenades all of [...]

Okay, we’re just going to warn you: you WILL love this clip. During one of One Direction’s recent concerts, during their Twitter questionnaire portion of the show, Harry Styles and Niall Horan did a little dance for everyone. A little ballroom dancing, that is. The two paired up and wowed fans until Harry falls over, [...]

Having seen Kelly Clarkson’s amazing new video for People Like Us, you must think to yourself, “How did they do that?” Well now, you can see all the magical behind the scenes footage in this new video! Watch as Clarkson walks us through the entire video, from whipping her hair back and fourth in her [...]

We’ve already familiarized ourselves with Miley’s new single, We Can’t Stop, right? Jam of the summer right here. The singer has now released two teasers for her upcoming video. The trailers, which you can watch below, are short, but already has us psyched to see the full video. In the first clip, we see a [...]

It’s no secret that John Mayer is a bit of a ladies man. He’s dated quite a number of stars including Jessica Simpson, Katy Perry and even Taylor Swift. So you just know that we’ll be sitting here dissecting every new song he releases. Thankfully, he’s made this an easy one. His latest song, Paper [...]

It feels like it’s been forever since we’ve heard new music from M.I.A., but we don’t have to wait any longer! The rapper recently released a new song called Bring the Noize, which is just as politically-charged and hyper as we remembered her to be. Ah, glad to have you back, M.I.A.! Bring the Noize [...]

For the past three years, I’ve been pleasantly amused by the city of Calgary’s painted utility box program, which sees the normally unsightly boxes painted by local artists, thus becoming a more colourful and lively edition to the neighbourhoods across …
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Armin van Buurin and Trevor Guthrie were a highlight at last night’s MMVAs, but if you’re danced out from their performance and want something a little more relaxed, then boy, do we have the clip for you! The ex-soulDecision singer strips things down as he does an acoustic rendition of the song, playing multiple instruments [...]

When we thought Toronto’s crack Mayor Rob Ford was about to take the national scandal prize, Montreal’s replacement Mayor Michael Appelbaum rides (in a police car) to the rescue with corruption charges. What major city mayor is next to implode? Are Canadian municipal elections selecting the best political candidate they could be? Mtl. mayor faces […]

We all saw Chavril last night at the MMVAs, right? Don’t the two look like Can-rock royalty? The couple, who is currently planning their wedding, revealed some details of their upcoming ceremony including their wedding song. “Our wedding song will be a duet we recorded together for my new album,” Lavigne says, adding that “some [...]

Think you are up to date about local happenings? Test your knowledge with our local news quiz, five questions designed to test whether you’ve been paying attention. How to score: 5 out of 5: News stud! I hear The Citizen is hiring… 4 out of 5: Cheater! You work at City Hall. 3 out of [...]

Gun Control looms on the horizon of the West. The Future Perfect world is here. There are more tapeworms, mosquitoes, and bedbugs than humans to feed upon. The anemic tax payers are starting to squeek, to move from high crime, high tax, high diversity areas to places less like the future and more [...]

The Wanted and Justin Bieber are managed by the same man, the one and only Scooter Braun, so of course we’ve been secretly hoping for a collaboration from two of our favourite artists in music right now. Thankfully, the pop music gods have granted our wish! In an interview with MTV U.K., The Wanted confirmed [...]

Kanye West’s much anticipated album Yeezus has leaked today a few days early from the official release on June 18. We’ve already heard snippets from the albums, namely the tracks New Slaves and Black Skinhead. Apparently, at about 12:30 EST, the album was spread from fire-sharing service, What.cd. Are you guys going to listen to [...]

Maintaining her power over Canada, doesn’t seem like the best way to apologize for ‘accidentally’ cheating Canadians out of tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not entitled? How many ppl get invu’d on @CBCTheNational by former coworker abt our “responsible but not @ fault” mistakes? #cdnpoli #Wallin— David Paterson (@DavidPatersonca) June 14, 2013 “I’m […]

Watch this new video from The Maine featuring Margeaux from The Face! Margeaux took to her personal blog and wrote, “This beautifully done, single-shot video was directed by my good friend Daniel James Gomes. I just want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to push myself and my acting ability for this very [...]

This is the time of year where I write a post about the the recently announced Polaris Prize long list, normally gushing over the nominees and curiously excited about which Canadian artist would win the huge $30,000 prize.  See, here’s …
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Emblem3 is making the press rounds and we’ve stumbled upon their behind the scenes acoustic rendition of their track Just For One Day. If you don’t know who Emblem3 are, they are an American hip-pop rock musical trio from the Pacific Northwest. Emblem3 are brothers Wesley Stromberg, Keaton Stromberg, and their friend Drew Chadwick. Their [...]