For songwriters, there's something especially enticing and gruesome about a vehicular crash. From the sweet-sounding drag-race death tunes of the '60s to the real-life account of Kanye West's life-threatening accident in 2002, pop music is filled with cautionary tales about how not to behave on bikes, in cars, and around...

Billy Ray Cyrus' daughter, pop star and angular haircut model Miley Cyrus, announced that she was supporting Barack Obama in a recent Tweet, but he had been planning to keep his own opinions on the forthcoming election to himself.

"The only thing I know for sure about anything...

There's something surreal about seeing The Tragically Hip, one of the country's biggest and most iconic bands, play in a small club in Toronto's perennially underground Kensington Market.

The crowd packed into the back room of Supermarket -- renamed "Now For Plan A Headquarters" for the duration of...

When news of the arrests of the feminist punk collective riot Pussy Riot hit the mainstream, singer, filmmaker and activist Peaches was less than impressed with the response from some of the bigger acts in music.

"I felt like there were a lot of celebrities who...

Bad 25, legendary filmmaker Spike Lee’s documentary about the making of Michael Jackson’s Bad album -- not to be confused with Bad 25, the CD/DVD box set reissue of the album, which comes out today -- made its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film...

“Now I’ve heard hos cry ‘bout the winds being high and the law being on they tail. About snow and sleet being asshole deep and the tricks can go to hell. At some greasy spoon or juke saloon, you’ll find them killing their time. Singing hard luck tears and sucking...

Macy Gray doesn’t mind that most of the buzz surrounding her latest film, Lee Daniel’s The Paperboy, which makes its North American debut at the Toronto International Film Festival later this week, is focussed on an already infamous scene in which Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman urinates on Disney...

Halfway into Friday's Reincarnated press conference, a journalist asked Snoop Lion (formerly Snoop Dogg) about allegations that the documentary about his visit to Jamaica might be exploiting the island and its people.

Clad all in white and flanked by the the film's producers and directors, like some sort...

Members of Arcade Fire brought the house -- or at least the garden party tent -- down with both their music and their message at the Artists For Peace and Justice luncheon at the University of Toronto president's estate over the weekend.

As the headliners for...

Anthrax bassist Frank Bello's appearance at the Toronto International Film Festival is going to be a whirlwind. He'll be flying in on Sunday morning, attending the world premiere of Greetings From Tim Buckley, his feature film debut where he plays the role of punk icon Richard...

Last month at Caribana, the rapper formerly known as Snoop Dogg made his live debut as the Rastafarian reggae artist Snoop Lion. This week, Reincarnated, the film that documents his recent visit to Jamaica and the Dogg-to-Lion transformation it inspired, will have its world...

As anyone who's ever swooned to The Police's "Every Breathe You Take," only to later to discover it's actually a pretty disturbing song about stalking, can tell you -- pop songs aren't always what they seem.

Musicians love a good juxtaposition and dose of irony, and many of...

Documentary films featuring Snoop Dogg and 30 Seconds to Mars, the latest Rob Zombie horror flick The Lords of Salem and a Peaches musical have all been added to the 2012 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF announced earlier today.

After last year's rock-heavy list of...