Globally Urban

The recent release of the ‘Citizens Activ’ album by Canadian rapper Manafest is a big step forward for the talented MC. The album is a fusion of hard rock, pop hooks and streetwise hip-hop that stretches the rapper to a whole new place. When asked about the record Manafest said, “In my case I’m speaking [...]

As 2008 crawls to a close, some of the year’s best efforts come into finer focus. And when it comes to hybrid hip-hop, against all odds, remote Saskatchewan DJ Factor’s early release Chandelier keeps inexorably rising into Listening Post’s top 10.
Maybe it’s the Mercury Rev-like poptronica of “Home Again” or the orchestral raunch of “More [...]

Sarah Lazarovic—curator of the garage-based Montrose Portrait Gallery of Canada—is painting a portrait of a Torontonian every day. Each Monday, we’ll feature one of those portraits here. Suggestions for subjects welcome.

Malcolm “Mr. Mack” MacLeod

The Cape Breton Post
GLACE BAY — Malcolm MacLeod says Cape Breton music history will be made tonight at the Savoy Theatre.
MacLeod, aka Mr. Mack, is one of several hip hop artists in the local area organizing a show being held tonight at 8 p.m. at the downtown Glace Bay venue.
“It should be [...]

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B-boying, an updated version of break dancing, has reclaimed its place as the foundation of hip-hop culture.

Break dancers from Toronto and Montreal will compete head to head and head to floor as the feature performers during the fourth annual Style in Progress hip-hop festival at Yonge Dundas Square

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Formidable! Translated from French to English, formidable means “Wow” which is precisely the reaction I, and thousands of local students, had to Frenchstock, the concert of various children’s french rock musicians who performed last Thursday at the J.M. Ennis auditorium at Centennial Secondary School in Welland. Frenchstock - a play on [...]