"I'm the one who gets away, I'm a New Jersey success story, And they'll say Lord give me the chance to shake 'his' hand, They'll say" From "Big Casino" by Jimmy Eat World

Canada has had its fair share of musical divas Ask someone to name a famous Canadian chanteuse and you're likely to hear a range of possible candidates: Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, K

Bands come and go, but the classification and re-classification of their music is an exercise that never grows old There are no hard and fast rules, no universally accepted methodology or definitions to fall back on

“Yo, I'll tell you what I want, what I really really want, So tell me what you want, what you really really want, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna, I wanna really, Really really wanna zigazig ha” Apparently the concert-going public has spoken and what they really, really want is to see the Spice Girls perform together once again

It’s been another tumultuous year in the music industry, a business that’s seeing significant challenges to virtually every aspect of its business model, and that needs the pressure of such change as much as a polar bear needs a heat lamp With peer-to-peer downloading of music that seems unstoppable no matter how many companies get shut down, bad press generated by poorly conceived punitive lawsuits against said file sharers, declining CD sales, increasing failure among traditional music retail stores, and well-known artists like Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails striking out on their own and offering new releases online for free; it seems these days the music industry can’t catch a break