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Joshua Ostroff

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Joshua decided to become a music journalist after teenage him spied a flannel-bedecked dude with a press badge at Lollapalooza in Van City. So he did. Now Josh writes/edits happily ever after in Toronto -- where conveniently many musicians he interviews live super nearby.

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Rufus Wainwright: Gay Marriage, Obama and 'the End of the American Empire'
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Rufus Wainwright: Gay Marriage, Obama and 'the End of the American Empire'

Getty | AFP "Tell me do you really think you go to hell for having loved?" sang Rufus Wainwright on his cutting 2007 song "Going to a Town," punctuating it with "I'm so tired of America." Wainwright, now engaged to his boyfriend, wrote it prior to Barack Obama's election, but as we saw in North Carolina this past week, there are still many ...

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Maurice Sendak, Dead: Remembering the 'Where the Wild Things Are' Author's Love of Music and Carole King Collaboration

Getty | Getty Maurice Sendak, the beloved and cantankerous children's author, died today at 83. He, of course, would deny that title, if perhaps not the cantankerous part. "I don't write for children," he recently told Stephen Colbert. "No. I write, and somebody says 'that's for children.' I didn't set out to make children happy. Or life ...

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Kid Koala on Fatherhood, Yo Gabba Gabba and Crafting 'Space Cadet' for a Decade

Ninja Tune Kid Koala, the Canadian DJ and cartoonist otherwise known as Eric San, no longer quite fits his nom de turntable. Though he started out young -- self-distributing his demo mixtape way back in 1996 on audio cassette -- the Ninja Tunes turntablist is now in his late-30s and has a kid of his own. Over these years he's refined his ...

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Rufus Wainwright: How His Mother's Death, Daughter's Birth Got Him 'Out of the Game'

Universal Rufus Wainwright has had a manic couple of years. Though it has culminated in the heights of the Canadian singer's acclaimed new album, Out of the Game -- produced by Mark Ronson, who cut his teeth working with Amy Winehouse and Adele -- it has not been an easy ascent. His mother Kate McGarrigle, of much-loved folk duo Kate and ...

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10 Hot Rock Star Wives

Getty Images (2) Rock stars get to live the life most of us mortals can only dream to live. Whether it's getting to travel the world to play music in front of arena-sized crowds, or living in massive mansions in the hills, the Gods of Rock 'n' Roll have it pretty good. In this photo gallery, our colleagues at Noisecreep pick 10 hot-as-lava ...

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Flaming Lips, NXNE: Indie Icons Headline Free AOL Spinner Concert in Toronto

Shirlaine Forrest, WireImage Do you realize how long we've been keeping this amazing news to ourselves?!? The Flaming Lips are headlining Spinner Canada's free all-day NXNE concert on Saturday, June 16 at Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square! Yes, the Flaming Lips. I know, right? Toronto's annual NXNE festival seems to grow bigger and more ...

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Massive Attack Score 'Halo 4' and Scarlett Johanssen

Fin Image | Bungie OK, so it's not "technically" Massive Attack, but two of the pioneering British electronic act's primary players are staging unorthodox comebacks. Producer and co-songwriter Neil Davidge has been hired to score the upcoming videogame Halo 4, the first entry in the epic Xbox sci-fi series not made by Bungie. Martin ...

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