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Thomas Rhett will co-host this year’s Canadian Country Music Association Awards in Edmonton and will be joined by Alberta-born singer MacKenzie Porter. Watch video →

Canadian music superstars Tegan and Sara have put out a public letter denouncing anti-trans legislation as alarming and destructive.

Global music profits rose by 10.2 percent last year to $28.6 billion, as per information put out on Thursday. However, music companies are worried about sustaining growth during the era of streaming. The top performer globally was Taylor Swift, based on the yearly report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, […]

Bob Hallett, a founding member of the Newfoundland folk-rock band Great Big Sea, mentioned that the AI tool Suno did not accurately capture the essence of the bands based on their descriptions.

We use music to make sense of the squawks, creaks, and roars around us.

Recently a Quebec arts foundation required the Francophone rap group Dead Obies to give back an $18,000 grant they’d been awarded to record their newest album. The problem? A word count determined that the group had stirred too much English into their distinctive multilingual lyrics, falling short of the rule that 70 percent of the […]

Experience mathematical beauty and symmetry in a multimedia work.

Artistic appreciation is a deeply subjective process, perhaps the most essentially personal thing that humans do. But are there some explanations for why we like what we do? Why, for instance, does a particular song get popular? Some of it has to do with the quality of the music—and by quality, I mean that there’s […]

I wanted to build the ideal collaborator. Was I ever surprised.

The unusual lives of a physicist and an aviator, in verse and song.