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Shawn Mendes
The pride of Pickering, Ontario, is making everyone a Leaf fan and there are non-Leaf fans among us who are uncomfortable with this and yet even they cannot deny that they're feeling Leafy after seeing this pic. Is it the Leafs bandwagon or the Mendes bandwagon? Doesn't matter. Plenty of room on both so c'mon up! Why walk alone when you can wagon, folks?
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Going Gaga
It's worth the ~$12 CND to pick up the 'New York Times' on Sunday because check out the Magazine cover star! Gaga is set to WOW in the highly-hyped 'A Star Is Born' but hey, she has long-since been a magazine cover star, obviously because wow, eh? Also? Music. She is really super-duper at that.
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Beyonce And Her Cape And Also OMG Jay-Z AND His SNEAKERS?
"Vancouver, I am grateful to be in such a beautiful place! 2 more shows, let’s go get ‘em!" pens Bey, Lady Bey, Bey of Beyness Beyonce.
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Keeping It 100
Drake shows off his magic powers to a crowd in Houston.
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The Meme That Rocked The Internet
Mmmmmkay OMG you guys, it's not that often that, like, Riri posts a meme of herself that serves to illuminate what it means to be Rihanna. Observe.
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Cardi B and Liam Payne
"All we did was talk about our babies," says Kulture's mom, who was seated next to Bear's dad at Milan Fashion Week.
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Michael Buble
His new album out November 26 is called ❤️(pronounced: love) and the BC crooner is on Instagram just blowing you a handful of ❤️which is pretty sweet so get on board.
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Taron Egerton as Elton John
Who ELSE could Taron Egerton possibly be playing here? He's a dead ringer for the pop icon
who he's portraying in the upcoming biopic 'Rocketman'.
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Childish Gambino
An animated version of the "This Is America" rapper is checking out his new kicks in his latest collab with Adidas.
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Avril Lavigne
YESSS! Our Canadian punk pop princess returns to rein over the charts with her first new single in five years, "Head Above Water". Big congrats on a huge international #1 hit comeback, Our Lady Of Napanee Hardware!
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Carrie Underwood
There's never been a better time to be a Carrie! "What an amazing day!" posts the accomplished country superstar behind the new hit single "Cry Pretty". "I am overwhelmed and overjoyed at the love I felt at my Hollywood #WalkOfFame Ceremony! Thank you @simoncowell and @bradpaisley for the kind words. It was an honor to have you there! Thanks to all the amazing fans that came out! This is a day I will never forget!" We can well imagine Carrie Underwood earning a star. What is less believable are these "kind words" she attributes to legendarily-bitter, previous 'American Idol' judge Simon Cowell!
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Colin James
From the scorching blues-funk classic that is "Voodoo Thing" to the deliciously-bitter resolve of "I Just Came Back", this six-time Juno winner has been making us proud of Canadian music since long before that was a cool thing to be proud of. That sentiment is only going to be fuelled with the release of 'Miles to Go', the Regina-born blues rocker's sixteenth (!) album. Even with 15 albums behind him, this Canadian workhorse for the blues keeps on muscling his way through a musical homage to some of the blues’ greatest songwriters with an album largely of covers of works made famous by masters such as Muddy Waters and Blind Willie Johnson. But there are also two original tracks on this record, which was released September 21, so hold on to your pants/seats/pets/what have you and also SIT DOWN while you're at it because HOLY SMOKES HERE COMES AN EXPLOSIVE TALENT COMBINATION ALERT (picture alarm emojis going off everywhere) because this record's new tracks — "I Will Remain" and "40 Light Years" — were co-written by the massive Hamilton-based music talents Tom Wilson and Jesse O’Brien. #whoa!
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Rihanna
Her Savage x Fenty collab received rave reviews at Fashion Week for the amazing looks and the diverse body shapes that showed them off. Here's Riri showing off pieces from the Fall/Winter '18 collection.
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Nick Jonas
This is just a really nice picture of Mr. Nick so why not share it, eh? Word on the street is that Priyanka Chopra's main man is sporting just a tiny moustache. All the more reason to cling to this, it's just a really nice picture of Nick.
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Beyonce
"Tonight is the first of the last ten shows of OTRII," posts Beyonce, Queen Of Instagram/Life. "I’m doing what I love most with whom I love most. I wish it could never end. Feeling thankful for all of the love from our fans around the world. New Orleans, you ready? Let’s go get em!!!"
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More Beyonce
Another snap from her On The Run II Tour with hubby Jay-Z. #lifegoals Is she launching into a back arch here?
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Ensign Broderick
The glam rock Torontonian seduced TIFF with the premier of 'Accidence,' a short film by Guy Maddin that features Broderick's track, Accidence PSA'. Watch for new music from Broderick this November and watch this space for Broderick news until then, eh? And even afterwards, too.
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The Canadian Country Music Awards
Host Shania Twain charmed in a night full of star power and amazing performances. Here, the icon snaps a pic with the crowd in Hamilton.
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Justin Bieber and LeBron James
"Thanks for signing my shoes bron bron," is how Bieber, who's rocking a casual style at Fashion Week, captioned this pic. At least his kicks are on fleek or whatever.
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Bey Days
Beyonce is 37. Jay-Z, why did you get her birthday cake, at, like, Loblaws? Loblaws cakes are GREAT, don't get us wrong, but, like, it's just that ... dude, it's Beyonce. At least get two Loblaws cakes and stack 'em on top of each other or something.
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Tim McGraw Sings "Tim McGraw," All Is Well In The World
Country superstar Tim McGraw and his country superstar wife Faith Hill joined country superstar Taylor Swift to sing a song about country superstar Tim McGraw that country superstar Taylor Swift released as her very first single, way before she was even a country superstar. (Her first single was "Tim McGraw" in 2009 you guys. Keep up.) Here's how Swift described the night:
"Nashville, last night was the first time I got to headline that stadium. Every second of the show meant so much to me, and I’m so grateful to @thetimmcgraw and @faithhill for coming out to sing ‘Tim McGraw’ with me. I first came to this city in search of a record deal when I was 11! I’m just as enamored by being here now all these years later. Thanks for an unforgettable night."
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Diplo...n't Put It Back On
"The face I make when everyone tells me to put my shirt back on," posts LA DJ Diplo. We do not know who this "everyone" is but we would like to have a word with them.
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Carrie Is So Pretty!
Yes, OF COURSE we're here for the music but when Carrie Underwood shares a video promo for her new album, 'Cry Pretty,' due out September 14 and she looks GORGEOUS and her house looks AMAZING then you know what? We're going to shout that out, yo!
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Nicki Minaj Owned the MTV VMAs
"Guess which performance is the MOST VIEWED from Monday’s VMA’s????!!!" asks the "Barbie Tingz" rap queen who slayed hard during the live performance. "Thank you to this crowd. You guys made this such a legendary time. Love you. Love you. Love you so much," the fan-focussed star shouted out.
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Pete and Ari
Squee! We're here for Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande all day long! We love this happy couple and are chreering them on. We love a woman who supports her guy even more than we love that LV purse in the foreground.
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Toronto the Beautiful
Country star Dean Brody is making Toronto look even better in this shot from his tour stop at Toronto's stunning Budweiser Stage. Keep it beautiful, peeps!
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Ari Gets Sweetener
The pop queen, who paid tribute to the late Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, on 'The Tonight Show,' is out buying sweetener. We know it doesn't look like it in the pic, but 'Sweetener' is actually her new record. Come for the grooves, stay for the romantic Pete Davidson subplots and the amazing style choices.
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Shania Twain
No that's not a hotel room, that's what your plane seat looks like when you are a Canadian icon.
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Nick Arkells
We've had many (imaginary) hours of discussion lately aimed at updating and improving how we refer to members of Juno-winning rock band Arkells.
In a search for results-driven solutions, we ideated that many great groups are formed around siblings, like Tegan and Sara, Devo, Heart, the Kinks, the Beach Boys, the Undertones, the Black Crowes, and Oasis. Further, we took into account the great groups that pretend to be siblings: The Ramones and, hey, remember that thing with The White Stripes?
From these deliberations, we created a new naming convention to refer to Arkells band members. We will henceforth (within the constructs of this gallery only, probably) refer to Arkells members Max Kerman, Mike DeAngelis, Nick Dika, Anthony Carone, and Tim Oxford as Max Arkells, Mike Arkells, Nick Arkells, Anthony Arkells, and Tim Arkells.
Further, the need to establish honourifics has been raised. This is a much more difficult area. Shown left is Nick Arkells who is a shoo-in for The Quiet One or Sporty Soft Ball Spice but here we are borrowing from the honorific system established for the Beatles and the Spice Girls, respectively, while an Arkells-native solution remains actively sought because these boys are all that and a basket of popcorn, which you can have for free, BTW, at Odds Bar, a place in Hamilton that some of those Arkells brothers own part of.
Arkells have a new album out October 19 called 'RALLY⚡️CRY'. Let's try to get these nicknames settled by then, okay everybody?
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QUEEN
It's out a week early or significantly late depending on which release date you were counting on, but rapper Nicki Minaj has dropped her fourth album, "Queen," and fans are shook! Here's your girl celebrating the release with a flock of famous female friends.
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Tieneridool Shawn Mendes viert twintigste verjaardag in Amsterdam!
Or in English, that's "Teen idol Shawn Mendes celebrates twentieth birthday in Amsterdam!" He's no longer a teen idol, gang. He's 20, but don't worry, he's already appealing to adults: the Pickering-born international superstar singer/songwriter is the first artist to earn four #1 hits on the Adult Pop Songs chart before the age of 20. This boy's going to be just fine. Also, we're less interested in what he might be laughing at than why he might be laughing, know what we're saying? #Amsterdamnnnn
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Forever Alone
Iggy Azalea was with Houston Texan wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and then she wasn't and that was all inside of a day but now the boss Aussie rapper has made peace with being forever alone, she insists on social media. We're sure she has. We're also sure if she decides not to, she'll have plenty of takers.
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Goal Digger
Reports are out that Kanye West’s Adidas-collab Yeezy clothing line has a valuation of close to $1.5 billion, with West as the majority stakeholder. "Smiling on the inside," posts his fellow business mogul wife, Kim Kardashian.
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Skrrt!
Offset and Cardi B (aka parents of new baby Kulture!) pose with their whips.
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Thundercostumes
That's British musician Labrinth in yellow and also feathers, Australian musician Sia in her trademark half blond/half black hair do, and American DJ Diplo in some manner of summery formal attire, all gussied up to hype their new single, "Thunderclouds".
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Scott Helman
"Incredible time in #Peterborough today," posts the "Kinda Complicated" singer, 22, from Toronto. "Thank you SO much!! I heard you all singing and cheering as we left and it warmed my heart."
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Bulow
The German-Canadian “Not A Love Song” hitmaker has taken it upon herself to make Brooklyn more stylish.
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Take A Chance
"Come on down because the sun is high and I'm looking fly, you know what I'm saying? And I got hats for sale." The 25-year-old is making unbeatable offers on his 'gram stories these days when he's not suddenly dropping surprise hits like “Work Out,” “Wala Cam,” “I Might Need Security,” and “65th and Ingleside.”
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Ty Dolla Sign
He's got a post-Drake dance craze thanks to a late-night collab with Jimmy Kimmel and now the "Hey Up There" hitmaker is hitting the road on his #endlesssummer tour which lands in Toronto on August 22.
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Dave Bidini
Music fans know him as the leader of the Rheostatics and Bidiniband. Hockey lovers know him as the award-winning author of 'The Best Game You Can Name.' Cool kids know him as the publisher of the West End Phoenix, a monthly community newspaper in west-end Toronto. And those reading this now know that this is the author photo that this treasured Canadian renaissance man took to Instagram to share. It was shot by the amazingly talented Yellowknife-based photographer
Pat Kane.
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Beyonce
Here is the height of fashion today. Please style your ensembles accordingly.
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Ouroboros
Newfoundland party jazz squad Ouroboros rocked a Monday night crowd onto their feet at the Casbah in Hamilton, Ontario. This kick-arse brass, woodwind and drums ensemble is on tour across Canada this summer.
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Bebe Rexha
The "Meant To Be" singer is amazingly fierce in that pink trench coat after getting in front of weight gain rumours on Instagram.
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Drake
How much do you think that ring and watch combo cost? We just cannot stop looking at his hand here, the tailored cuff, the crazy jewellery. Drake has the mogul look on lock.
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Jann Arden
"I made a decision to change my life just over two years ago," the Canadian superstar posts. "Sobriety has been an unbelievable gift. I’m grateful to my friends for supporting me through all my failures and all my triumphs. I’m grateful for second- third and fourth chances..."
You're an inspiration!
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Rihanna
Rumour is she's working on a new dancehall album but in the meantime she's looking FAU (Fierce As Usual) promoting her massively popular Fenty beauty line.
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Drake
Drake's making the number 111 here to indicate the 111 percent of charts he's at the top of right now with his new, record-breaking double album, 'Scorpion.'
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Cardigram
Cardi B shared this screen grab of a fan's feed to give this love: "❤️❤️❤️❤️Drippin in fineess ❤️❤️❤️LOVE IT. Makes me feel real special ❤️FAN ART 😘Hope to meet you one day"
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Hot Bromance Alert!
Hanging here with Post Malone, Justin Bieber writes, "You're a beautiful person Posty! Truly an honour to know you my brother!"
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Cardi B On The Big Screen
"I know I told ya before but I gotta tell ya again. It's so crazy for me ... Same streets I used to walk, now I’m on the big screen. I never even dream to even be on them screens but hey! Look at that! “I LIKE IT”!!" says the rap star who's Top 10 hit "I Like It" is a serious contender for song of the summer.
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