Joshua Ostroff

For three years running, Drake has hosted the biggest hip-hop event in Toronto (and almost anywhere else, too). His OVO Fest, named after his hometown pre-fame October's Very Own clique, began in 2010 as a way to stake his claim in the hip-hop scene...

GF/ bauergriffinonline.com | FilmMagic The Juno Awards have made great strides in credibility in recent years, but that may have culminated in last year's Drake-hosted crowning of Arcade Fire. The 2012 Junos took a great big step backwards -- and a curiously unnecessary one -- by overlooking Drake's critical and commercial hit Take Care in favor of awarding Michael Buble's Christmas album... Read

As was first reported on our sister site Spinner, a brawl broke out between Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky and his crew against a drunken crowd at a Vice party around 3:30AM Sunday morning, ending the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, with a small eruption of violence for the second year in a row...

The shock surrounding Whitney Houston's sudden death at age 48 continues to reverberate, especially since the struggling singer was performing as recently as Friday, Feb 10. Taking the stage for the Kelly Price & Friends Unplugged: For The Love of R&B' Grammy Party at Tru Hollywood, Houston sang a gospel tune that now seems eerily prescient for her last public performance: 'Jesus Loves Me.

When Rob Base bounded onto the stage of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum for TOGETHER 2012, the United Jewish Appeal fundraiser may have been an unlikely event but the venue was rather apropos, what with all the dinosaurs in the building, reports Spinner...

Mitt Romney, the current frontrunner in the Republican's endless -- and endlessly nasty -- presidential primary, has spent the past few months throwing red meat at the party base. One of America's richest men, he's been arguing for lower corporate taxes and more military spending while stoking anti-immigrant jingoism...

Nas has been one of hip-hop's great figures since he first hustled onto the scene with the 1994 classic 'Illmatic,' an album of gritty street stories about his teen years in the Queensbridge projects that became symbolic of rap's '90s golden age... Read More ...

Music industry fests like CMJ regularly mix a few reunions into their bacchanal of baby bands, but usually it's alt-rock icons like Dinosaur Jr., which was why the surprisingly unheralded return of '90s R&B legends En Vogue was such a shocker. Co...

Drake's surprise appearance during Nicki Minaj's opening set on Britney Spear's Femme Fatale tour stop Saturday night (Aug. 13) in Toronto wasn't that much of a surprise. After all, the hometown hero has been entertaining himself between summertime recording sessions for his sophomore album by appearing all over town, be it supporting friends like the Weeknd -- for the R&B sensation's debut gi