Nominations for the Juno Awards—the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' equivalent to the Grammys—were announced today, and the big winner was the Vancouver band of heshers Nickelback, who are up for five prizes including Single Of The Year and Album Of The Year; personal fa...

2008 is now over, it’s official. Here we are in a new year, with the whole of 2009 ahead of us. While I’m still in the process of finishing up my Brit Music Scene review of the year, we do have the top ten bestselling singles and albums of 2008 in the UK for your perusal. Of course, whet...

As you may have gathered, I'm raring to close the book on 2008, but I'd be remiss if I didn't run down some of the site's highlights during what was a pretty dreary year overall. After the jump, behold a pretty subjective top 12 of the year (thanks to our technological limbo I can't run any sort of ...

Before I get into the worst of 2008 2008, let me remind how you can determine the best and win a gift card of your choice (iTunes or Amazon) in the process. Just e-mail me (ScooterKSU@aol.com) your ten favorite songs of 2008 for the 9th Green Reader’s Poll in order sometime before Christmas. Drawi...

File under “odd timing”: On the same day that Citigroup makes headlines as the beneficiary of a $300 billion bailout/prop-up, the bank begins a new marketing campaign. But don’t worry, U.S. taxpayers–the bank you’re buying a piece of isn’t blowing much dough on th...

Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger thinks Guitar Hero is partly to blame for the music industry being the way it is. “Start rock bands,” said the singer, “Set down the ‘Guitar Hero’ learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band, because it’s hard to find more ...

Usually, there’s at least one album I’m excited to hear each Tuesday.  Although the music industry is undeniably filled with a lot of crap, there are almost always some good artists that manage to highlight a week of bad releases.  While not all of the artists releasing albums today ar...

In two months, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the next president of the United States of America and there will be plenty of items on his plate from day one: two wars, the impending depression, Detroit imploding. One thing that should not be overlooked is NAFTA. It is hard to gauge Obama’s stanc...

Dark Horse is the upcoming sixth studio album by the Canadian post-grunge band Nickelback. Tracklist: 1. “Something In Your Mouth“ 2. “Burn It To The Ground” 3. “Gotta Be Somebody“ 4. “I’d Come for You” 5. “Next Go Round” 6. “Ju...

This time, This place Misused, Mistakes Too long, Too late Who was I to make you wait Just one chance Just one breath Just in case there’s just one left ‘Cause you know, you know, you know [CHORUS] That I love you I have loved you all along And I miss you Been far away for far too long I...