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Skyfall puts James Bond back into fighting form

November 9th, 2012

Starring Daniel Craig as international spy James Bond for the third time, Skyfall reinstates the aging agent back to fighting form. Taking on the topic of Bond’s mortality rather than asking the audience to assume the man in the tux doesn’t age, Skyfall begins with Bond suffering a devastating accident at the hands of his [...]

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Posted in Movies, Reviews | Posted by Allison

Listen to Passion Pit’s new album, Gossamer on First Spins

July 17th, 2012

Passion Pit doesn’t just create simple dance music. Instead, each one of the their songs is a multi-layered earworm that takes many listens to digest every instrument, riff and beat. It doesn’t come as a surprise, then, that their latest album, Gossamer, took three years to complete. The new collection of songs is just as [...]

Tags: first spins, Gossamer, News, passion pit
Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, News, Reviews | Posted by Melody

Listen to Dusted’s debut album on First Spins

July 4th, 2012

Dusted is Brian Borcherdt whose previous claim in the music industry was as a member of the band Holy Fuck. Brian decided to explore different avenues of his musical skills and teamed up with Leon Taheny, a producer who has worked with artists like Final Fantasy, Rituals, and Bruce Peninsula to create Total Dust in [...]

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Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, Reviews | Posted by Aimee

Listen to new Drop The Lime on First Spins

June 26th, 2012

Imagine you have a blender. You have rock & roll. You got some electro dance music. A dash of Malcolm McClaren, maybe a sprinkle of Felix Cartal. Then you press “Puree”. Open up the lid, then Drop The Lime. Yes, that was a clever play on words and a recipe for our latest installment of [...]

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Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, Reviews | Posted by Aimee

Listen to the latest album by Walk The Moon on First Spins

June 15th, 2012

Walk The Moon is a four piece from Cinncinati, Ohio. They are Nicholas Petricca, Kevin Ray, Sean Waugaman, and Eli Maiman. They sound like any fun band you’d want to play full blast at the park or solo in your room in the summer (so you can have a solo dance party, obvi). It seems [...]

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Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, Reviews | Posted by Aimee

Listen to Zulu Winter’s debut album on First Spins

June 14th, 2012

Zulu Winter is a five-piece indie group from Britain and (spoiler alert) they don’t sound like One Direction. Though none of them is named Zayn, Zulu Winter is Will Daunt (vocals & guitar), Iain Lock (bass), Dom Millard (keyboards), Henry Walton (guitar) and Guy Henderson (drums). The band got together in 2011 and have been [...]

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Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, Reviews | Posted by Aimee

Listen to Ed Sheeran’s album + on First Spins

June 4th, 2012

A lot of you are Ed Sheeran fans and unabashedly so (a lot of you liked Liz’s interview with Ed on NML) and we have yet another treat for you fans of the British ginger here: Sheeran’s album, + is available for you to listen to on MuchMusic’s First Spin section here! The album has [...]

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Posted in Blog, first spins, Music & Videos, News, Reviews | Posted by Aimee

Cults Played To A Packed House In Toronto

April 26th, 2012

Last night New York indie band Cults played to a packed crowd at The Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto. Still touring for their debut self-titled album, the band certainly did not disappoint. Following an unexpected long intro, Cults emerged on stage to a roar of cheers and got a bigger ovation when they opened with [...]

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Posted in Blog, Concert Reviews, Reviews | Posted by Alberto

MuchMusic’s Brit Awards Winner Olivia recaps the show!

March 2nd, 2012

This year MuchMusic sent lucky winner Olivia and her bestie to the Brit Awards with tickets to the show, airfare, hotel accommodations and spending money. Check out Olivia’s blog on their trip, including partying in Piccadilly and hanging out at the Brit Awards aftershow! Our trip to London to attend the Brits was an amazing [...]

Tags: brit awards, contest
Posted in Brit Awards, Reviews | Posted by Guest Blogger

Jay-Z and Kanye West reign over Canada on Watch The Throne tour

November 24th, 2011

If anyone can throw an arena-wide party and do it right, it’s Jay-Z and Kanye West. The highly anticipated Watch the Throne tour hit Toronto last night for the first of two shows, and to put it simply, IT WAS BONKERS. The 45-minute delay in performance was completely forgotten as soon as the show began. [...]

Tags: concert review, jay-z, Kanye West, RapCity, Watch The Throne
Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture, Concert Reviews, Concerts & Events, MuchRadar, pics, RapCity, Reviews | Posted by Mehek - Correspondent