Saturday night treated hip-hop fans to everything they could have hoped for as Ice Cube’s Straight Into Canada Tour stormed into TD Place in Ottawa.
ICE CUBE ANNOUNCES SECOND LEG OF STRAIGHT INTO CANADA TOUR
XZIBIT, MERKULES, PETER JACKSON, AND DJ KAV ANNOUNCED
AS DIRECT SUPPORT ON SELECT DATES
TICKETS GO ON SALE FEB 23 @10AM LOCAL
ANNOUNCEMENT FOLLOWS SOLD OUT FIRST LEG OF DATES
Instruments of Change: An Editorial About Why You Can Always Sit With Me And Why I Will Always Sing For You
The times may be a’ changing, but not quite fast enough.
Before Green Day won Grammies for singing of an American idiot, and Rage Against the Machine urged us to take the power back, The Clash wrote intricate songs about isolation, poverty, utilitarianism, and cultural upheaval. Before Bob Dylan won a Nobel Prize for Literature, his songs were recited and replayed over and over at picket lines across the United States when citizens took to the streets to protest the Vietnam War. Before Dr. Dre was selling his headphones to Apple and being treated like hip hop’s elder statesman and Ice Cube was making movies about barbershops and Jump Street, the “Niggaz With Attitude” were challenging police corruption and slapping us unapologetic-ally with a lyrical portrait of their realities in South Central, Los Angeles.
Festival d’été de Quebec drops MASSIVE lineup
Until today Ottawa’s own RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest had the lineup of the summer, then just after noon on Tuesday March 15 the Festival d’été de Quebec dropped a bombshell lineup that includes some of the biggest names under the sun.
