Northwest CanCon

After a 10-year hiatus Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair festival hits the road again in 2010.

Dates have not been announced yet, but both …

Four young men from Manotick, Ont., suddenly found themselves $250,000 richer Friday night after winning the “Big Money Shot” battle-of-the-bands contest in Ottawa.

Hollerado came out on top in the …

Haydain Neal, the creative force behind the Juno Award-winning group Jacksoul, passed away Sunday in Toronto after a seven-month battle with lung cancer.

King Khan & the BBQ Show are continuing their North American tour with stops in Portland and Seattle tonight and tomorrow, following a run-in with authorities in Kentucky last week.

Tegan and Sara will be playing on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien tonight, Nov. 2 … NBC, 11 p.m.

Right after their performance Saturday in Portland, Fucked Up headed back to Toronto where they picked up the Polaris Music Prize for their album The Chemistry of Common Life. The band, which floats somewhere between hardcore and punk, beat out nine other short-listers for the $20,000 award at an invite-only gala event in Toronto. Bands [...]

Elliott Brood have canceled their trip to Portland for this weekend’s Pickathon Festival due to “health issues”—specifically Casey Laforet’s recent hospitalization. Some reports suggest that Laforet (right) suffered a collapsed lung, but the singer himself has not elaborated on what he described Saturday as “a minor procedure.” Casey did indicate, though, that the trio’s other [...]

Now in its fourth year, the Polaris Music Prize appears to be looking backward for this year’s award. Patrick Watson, who won the $20,000 prize in 2007, leads a crowd of second-time nominees on the short list for Canada’s largest music prize, announced today in Toronto. Joel Plaskett and Chad VanGaalen, both nominated in 2007, [...]

Canadian singer Martha Wainwright will appear on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight. 12:30, NBC.

Canadian superstar k.d. lang will be on the radio across the United States June 6 as she joins Garrison Keillor on A Prairie Home Companion on NPR radio. Better yet, if you’re in the Los Angeles area on June 5, you can catch the show live at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley.