“There’s not enough 500-seater rooms around. To see a new one opening is important for the music scene in general,” says Bear Witness. By Nick Krewen Special to the Star On Friday, downtown Toronto will welcome a brand new venue with a concert headlined by The Halluci Nation: TD Music Hall. Located on the fourth floor of the Allied Music Centre building and complex that connects to the revitalized Massey…
Nick Krewen Special to the Star Drake not only dropped a new three-song EP called Scary Hours II at midnight: he also dropped a new video and – to top it all off – a new 24-hour fully curated radio channel. With short notice on Thursday night, the man who has been setting hip-hop trends for the past 11 years shared on his Twitter and Instagram feeds that he’d appearing on…
Nick Krewen Special To the Star “Stay driven.” For 20 years, that message has been the underlying theme of Toronto hip-hop veteran Duane “D.O.” Gibson’s presentations at over 1000 schools across Canada. Offering four programs that focus on the topics of anti-bullying, self-confidence, leadership, peer pressure, literature and Black history, to name a few, Gibson estimates he’s delivered more than 2500 of his empowering speeches and workshops to hundreds of…
Nick Krewen Special To The Star Toronto’s Connor Price may have an unlikely source to thank for his entertaining new hip-hop video featuring a couple of Hollywood A-Listers: COVID-19. While the Markham-born Price’s novel song “Courteney Cox,” – which he describes as “an homage” to the Friends and Scream actress as he labels her “a cougar ” – the catalyst to getting the tune recorded is none other than fellow actor…
Nick Krewen Special to the Star It’s an ugly truth, but racism is more prevalent in Canada than we’d like to admit, say two Black Canadian artists who are illuminating the issue in their current and powerfully candid works. “There’s definitely a problem in Canada,” says Ruth Berhe – better known as Ruth B. – who recently wrote and recorded the moving ballad “If I Have A Son” in the wake…
