Juno nominees to get invite to Canada Day bash All 2008 Juno nominees for New Artist of the Year and New Group of the Year will be invited to take the stage at Canada's birthday bash on Parliament Hill next July 1. The Istanbul Live Earth concert has been cancelled after failing to attract government support or corporate sponsorship. New York singer and music producer Hank Medress, best known as the voice behind The Lion Sleeps Tonight by doo-wop group The Tokens, has died.
Merrymaking and mud as Glastonbury fest ends The legendary Glastonbury music festival in England draws to a close with a record 177,500 attendees and massive rainfall that resulted in a mud-soaked event. Blanchett to begin new run at Oscar in Elizabeth sequel at TIFF The 32nd Toronto International Film Festival will feature a gala presentation of Elizabeth: The Golden Age, with Cate Blanchett reprising her role as Britain's first Queen Elizabeth. Sam the Record Man to auction off slice of music history Sam the Record Man, the iconic Toronto store where a generation of music lovers bought their first record, sells off its contents Wednesday.
Teenagers and young adults are turning away from conventional radio, probably so they can listen to digital music players and online music, according to a new study from Statistics Canada. A beaming Paris Hilton strolled out of jail Tuesday after a stay of more than three weeks for violating probation on driving offences in a bizarre legal melodrama. Handelsman dies at 85 Handelsman, a cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine who applied his dry wit to subjects ranging from politics to popular culture, has died at age 85.
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