Matt Mays

Canadian Artists Come Clean About Their Musical Guilty Pleasures

Show & Tell

PUBLISHED Mar 10, 2021

What exactly counts as a "guilty pleasure" these days? Back in the '90s, people might have harboured a secret love for Britney Spears or th...

Matt Mays Readies New Live Album 'From Burnside with Love'

PUBLISHED Jan 14, 2021

After taking a trip to Dog City last year, Matt Mays will now bring listeners to his hometown of Dartmouth, NS, with a new live album and c...

Matt Mays and July Talk Team Up for New "Talking to the Sky" Video

PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2020

Matt Mays is back today with a video for his Dog City song "Talking to the Sky," which appropriately enough features his dog Rhuby — not to...

Canadian Artists Remember Their Best, Worst and Most Mortifying Day Jobs

PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2020

It wasn't always Netflix shows, sold-out venues and Twitter stans for these talented Canadians; once upon a time, they merely blended in wi...

Canadian Artists Recall the Meanest Things People Have Ever Said to Them

PUBLISHED Jul 24, 2020

The many moving parts of a live performance can present unique challenges for touring artists; worn-out equipment, bad sound, unruly weathe...

Canadian Artists Weigh In on What Canada Means to Them

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2020

While colonial powers come under scrutiny amid global uprisings against systemic oppression, Canadians have been forced to reckon with our...

Matt Mays' 'Dog City' Turns a Corny Concept into a Heartwarming Experiment

PUBLISHED May 22, 2020

Some philosophical topics — freedom, unity, love — are hard to break down and understand through conventional means. Few of us are Socrates...

Canadian Artists Weigh In on Their Wildest Celebrity Encounters

PUBLISHED Apr 7, 2020

Nearly everybody's got a weird story about that one time they saw Shaquille O'Neal loitering on a street corner in England or witnessed Joh...