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Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage arrested in U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement raid

Prior to achieving great success in the music business, he was involved in gang activities.

Five Songs About: motivation

Here are five songs designed to get you motivated and to get your blood pumping. Do it!

Fyre Festival 2019 is coming: bring cigarettes

This year's edition, the video says, will feature Drake, Blink-182, and Major Lazer, "plus 50,000 other MP3s".

Newt's Guitar-star Radar: when and where to hear wicked pickers in Vancouver, February 2019 edition

Vancouver welcomes a ton of wicked guitarists in the coming months.

In a decision leaving more questions than answers, Maroon 5 won't be talking to the press before the Super Bowl

Some lips shouldn't be zipped.

Closed Davie Village lounge 1181 prepares to relaunch on February 1 under new ownership

The closure of West End bar 1181 proved to be a shock to the Davie Street nightlife scene.

Beyonce will give you free concert tickets for life if you'll only put down that goddamn delicious rack of lamb

If God didn't want us to eat meat, he wouldn't have made it taste good

Ozomatli gets ready to party at the Rickshaw in Vancouver

Get ready to sweat

Album of the Week: Going Late

What Humans does, it continues to do magnificently, with Going Late the kind of record you reach for at 3 a.m. when you’ve finally burned out on the xx.

Ariana Grande’s new Japanese tattoo actually translates to “charcoal grill”, now she’s getting roasted by the Internet

A great example on why foreign language inking should always well researched in advance.

With In Limbo, Vancouver's Chersea makes a triumphant statement about the importance of not giving up

Chersea excelled at sports—specifically hockey—but music turned out to be her true all-consuming passion.

With Kiss about to perform in Vancouver, ex-guitarist Ace Frehley calls Gene Simmons an asshole and a sex addict

With Kiss about to land in Vancouver Thursday for the West Coast date of their 10th, 11th, or 33rd farewell tour, now's as good a time as any to dream of what might be.

Debauchery behind it, Interpol still thriving as the band heads to Vancouver

That Interpol is still going, let alone thriving, in 2019, is impressive in itself.

19 Vancouver concerts this weekend, February 1 to 3

Punk-rock, reggae-funk, neo-folk, Tom Petty: take your pick.

ALBUM REVIEWS

Album of the week: Deluxe Hotel

Album of the Week: Going Late

Album of the Week: Lil Hank is a good boy

Album of the week: Slug Comparison dials things back to a less harsh time

Album of the Week: Glove and Ghost does its best to conjure up a paranoid past

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