Skye Sweetnam

Skye Sweetnam — Noise From The Basement

The overall theme to Noise From The Basement appears to be teenage rebellion, but Sweetnam sounds like a traitor to her generation. She chooses to promote selfishness ("Number One"), dropping out of high school (the previously released "Billy S") and even plagiarism ("Hypocrite"). She’s the latest sheep in the keeping...
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Linkin Park, Modern Superstitions, Tune-Yards Join Japanese Relief Projects

It's been over two weeks since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan and an ensuing tsunami killed thousands and left tens of thousands more missing. Early yesterday, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake occurred off the coast of northeastern Japan. The country is still struggling to deal radioactive contamination leaks at nuclear plants that...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 3, 2011

Buck 65 has been nominated for two Genie Awards! He's up for best original song and best original score for the work he did on Sook-Yin Lee's Year Of The Carnivore. Elliott Brood are also up for best original song for "West End Sky" from Grown Up Movie Star. Paul J. Spence is also up for best original song for "There's No Place Like Christmas"...
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LIGHTS, Hedley, Jian Ghomeshi Help Music Journalist Tackle Racism

Toronto music journalist Karen Bliss has partnered with Canadian musicians like LIGHTS, Hedley's Jacob Hoggard, Jully Black, Skye Sweetnam, Nelly Furtado, Chris Bosh and CBC Radio's Jian Ghomeshi to create The Girl With The Pinhead Parents, an anti-racism animation project.Bliss wrote the PSA, which was animated by Halifax's Copernicus Studios. It...
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MMVAs 08: Skye Sweetnam

ChartAttack's Steve McLean met Skye Sweetnam backstage at the 2008 MuchMusic Video Awards and found out why Much wouldn't let her bring a bulldozer to the awards show.
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Skye Sweetnam

2008 MuchMusic Video Awards

Photographer: 
Kate Harper
Venue: 
MuchMusic Building
City: 
Toronto, ON
Date: 
June 15, 2008
Skye Sweetnam

Skye Sweetnam Ain't No Britney Or Avril

It's been three years since adorable pop-punk moppet Skye Sweetnam released her debut album, Noise From The Basement. Now the 19 year old is back with a new, more mature and tougher album, Sound Solider. ChartAttack talked to the singer about the writing process for her new disc, defining herself as an artist, and those pesky Avril Lavigne...
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Skye Sweetnam's Willing To Share Her Boyfriend

Music certainly has been getting around lately. First, it had a naughty dalliance with The Hidden Cameras, as documented in the band's song, "Music Is My Boyfriend." They washed music's dirty underwear, music drank their pee, and music kept them singing until their dying day. A couple of years ago, music also became involved with a...
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Hidden Cameras Frontman Joel Gibb Has A Three-Way With Skye Sweetnam And Music

Joel Gibb and The Hidden Cameras have returned to Toronto to play a World AIDS Day benefit concert on Thursday night at the University Of Toronto's Hart House Great Hall. Though the Cameras have been debuting some newer material in their sets, and Gibb claims to have started demoing and recording, don't necessarily expect a new album soon. First...
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Skye Sweetnam Is A Sound Soldier

Skye Sweetnam, the 19-year-old pop singer who was nominated for a Juno Award in 2004 and then largely disappeared, will return on Oct. 30 with her sophomore EMI effort, Sound Soldier. The follow-up to Sweetnam's Noise From The Basement debut features 12 tracks co-written by the artist. In a somewhat unlikely pairing, Rancid's Tim Armstrong co-...
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