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The on-stage conversation and audience Q&A will celebrate the book's hardcover release BY Alex HudsonPublished Jul 6, 2026 Heated Rivalry's author is set to take the stage at Massey Hall for what's being billed as "An Evening with Rachel Reid." Taking place October 13, Reid is set to participate in a 45-minute on-stage conversation, followed by what a press release promises will be an "extended audience Q&A." The night celebrates the deluxe hardcover release of Reid's book Heated Rivalry —...

Select cities will hear the album early in independent theatres July 9–11 Photo courtesy of Live Nation BY Megan LaPierrePublished Jul 6, 2026 We're only a couple of weeks out from the arrival of Charli xcx's Music, Fashion, Film, which will see her making rock music because she thinks the dance floor is dead.

The "iloveitiloveitiloveit" breakout star returns to Toronto in September BY Megan LaPierrePublished Jul 6, 2026 Bella Kay's song "iloveitiloveitiloveit" has been one of the definitive breakout hits to emerge from TikTok so far this year.

Created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews Starring Alfred Molina, Alfre Woodard, Denis O'Hare, Clarke Peters, Carlos Miranda, Geena Davis, Jena Malone, Seth Numrich, Alice Kremelberg, Bill Pullman Photo courtesy of Netflix BY Alex HudsonPublished Jul 6, 2026 7 It's obvious how The Boroughs was pitched: Stranger Things, but with old people instead of kids. Older Things, if you will.

After being sued for defamation by Bob Vylan on Friday (July 3), the BBC is once again facing backlash from — what a surprise! — Morrissey less than two weeks after he reignited his beef with Johnny Marr over a Radio 6 Music podcast series.

Take a trip down memory lane with Sam the Record Man, HMV and the World’s Biggest Bookstore BY Alex HudsonPublished Jul 6, 2026 Listen up, kids. Back in my day, when you wanted to hear new music, you needed to go to a record store and buy an album (which is a collection of songs packaged together on a CD, cassette or vinyl record). You can learn about all this and more in a Toronto walking tour about the history of buying music and books on Yonge Street.

BY Josh KorngutPublished Jul 6, 2026 8 Confessions IIopener "I Feel So Free" is an immediate and brilliant return to Madonna at her experimental best. A dance/trance track that replaces traditional pop vocals with stage whispers, dialogue fragments and flashes of hymn-like singing, it serves as a bold thesis for an unapologetically mature record prepared to face a crowded and distracted music industry.

Catch the showcases at the Baie-Saint-Paul festival on July 23, 24 and 25. BY Sydney BrasilPublished Jul 6, 2026 Exclaim! and Le Festif! have once again teamed up with Lepointdevente.com on a series of shows coming to the Baie-Saint-Paul festival on July 23, 24 and 25. Otoboke Beaver, Sextile, Heavy Lungs, Souls of Mischief, the Mummies, African Head Charge, VioleTT Pi, Ravenspell and Get the Shot will all play the Priest's Garage over the three-day period.

The Guelph Jazz Festival returns in 2026 from September 11 to 13, with François Houle's The Secret Lives of Colour forming the core of its musical programming. It's a collaborative performance bringing together several adventurous jazz luminaries — all of whom will also perform in different incarnations during the festival, each showing multiple dimensions of their boundary-expanding talent, alongside other artists.

Tommy Hunter, known as "Canada's Country Gentleman," has died at the age of 89. The musician and TV host died on Thursday (July 2) of natural causes. Hunter got his start on CBC's country music show Country Hoedown, when he signed on as a rhythm guitarist in 1956. He then got his very own program, The Tommy Hunter Show, which began as a radio show in 1965 and moved to TV. It ran for 27 years, until 1992.