Joshua Ostroff
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Joshua decided to become a music journalist after teenage him spied a flannel-bedecked dude with a press badge at Lollapalooza in Van City. So he did. Now Josh writes/edits happily ever after in Toronto -- where conveniently many musicians he interviews live super nearby.
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Toronto's downtown has likely never been busier than Saturday night.
Tens of thousands of music fans flooded the streets following the Pavement / Broken Social Scene festival on Toronto Island and the Iggy Pop and the Stooges free show at Young-Dundas Square while teenyboppers crowded Queen Street to watch (and scream) as Justin Bieber and Adam ...
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The American DJ community has long struggled for respect in the wider music world, and those efforts just took a huge hit when 'Jersey Shore' star Pauly D was nominated alongside a host of superstar DJs and legendary wax-spinners in the annual America's Best DJ competition.
Admittedly, the hundred-long list leaves room for lesser-calibre names ...
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Fans of Canadian indie rock and Canadian indie cinema have been chomping at the bit for the June 25 release of 'This Movie is Broken,' a part-scripted, part-concert film that brings together Broken Social Scene with legendary filmmakers Bruce MacDonald ('Highway 61,' 'Hard Core Logo') and Don McKellar ('Last Night,' 'Slings & Arrows').
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Metric may've named their current album 'Fantasies,' but since its release last year all their fantasies seem to become reality -- the latest of which is landing the theme song to one of the year's biggest franchise films, 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.'
This news comes on the heels of the Toronto electro-rockers going platinum in Canada; winning ...
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"It's adult time," announces Kevin Drew, the smiling, scruffy face of Canadian indie rock collective Broken Social Scene, on the heels of their long-awaited new album 'Forgiveness Rock Record,' which just debuted at number one in Canada, 34 on the US SoundScan charts and 10 on the US digital charts.
"The kids are grown up, the babies were born, ...
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Sia, the Australian electronic pop singer who rose to fame with Zero 7 before embarking on a successful solo career, is no stranger to being remixed. But Sia's 'Clap Your Hands' -- the first single from her upcoming fourth studio album, 'We Are Born' -- gets a real workout from low-end theorist Diplo. Bringing the bass in to beef up and slow down ...
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Juno Awards weekend began with a dense fog which prevented planeloads of musicians from landing on Friday, and ended with a volcanic ash cloud descending on the city of St John's, Newfoundland -- sparking a mad dash to the airport Sunday night to beat the Icelandic plumes that have kept European airspace empty for days.
"I spoke to a pilot just ...
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