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(L-R) Musicians Leot Hanson, Ewan Currie and Ryan Gullen of the band The Sheepdogs perform during Day 1 of the …

Last year, Coachella kicked off in Indio, California with some of the finest voices in Canadian music like Arcade Fire and Chromeo. This year, the second weekend of the famed music festival is also ripe with homegrown talent with acts like the Sheepdogs, Feist and Dragonette all set to appear for their second round of performances.

On Friday, April 20, the Sheepdogs will kick off the festival's second weekend after their successful April 13 performance and whirlwind year of touring and Juno Award wins.

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Known for their tunes infused with elements of "classic, psychedelic, and boogie rock," they are sure to be one of the upcoming weekend's most anticipated acts.

The Saskatoon foursome, consisting of members Ewan Currie, Leot Hanson, Ryan Gullen and Sam Corbett, jumped on tour with John Fogerty in March, which prevented them from personally accepting their three Juno Awards at the beginning of April.

The band, who less than a year

Lower those slushies folks, it's cool to be in a glee club now!

This weekend, glee clubs from across Canada will participate in the 2nd annual Show Choir Canada National Championships at The Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in downtown Toronto.

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Competing for a chance to win $20,000 in Yamaha products, one week scholarships to the Randolph Academy for the Performing Arts and of course, bragging rights, the top 13 choirs will begin the competition starting with tomorrow's preliminary round.

"Honestly, the way I look at it is not that we have to beat the competition but beat ourselves last year," Merik Williams, a 17-year-old student from last year's winning school, The Wexford School of the Arts, said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "I feel like with every show we become closer, so this glee opportunity was another opportunity for us to become more of a family."

The act of participating in a glee club goes

Swollen Members (left to right) Mad Child, Prevail, Moka Only and Rob the Viking show off the award for Best Independent …

With the release of their new album, "Beautiful Death Machine" coming later this year, Prevail, Mad Child and Rob The Viking of Swollen Members talked to Yahoo! Canada Music about returning to their roots, when they lost themselves and where they are today.

"I feel like we've come back to where we started," Prevail said. "When we began recording 'Dagger Mouth,' we basically had a 15-second conversation [along the lines of], 'What are we going to do? Let's go back to what we do best, which is making classic Swollen Members music that's heavy and intense with well-produced beats.'"

The decision to return to the original Swollen Members style was something that came after the band realized that they wanted to just be themselves. Looking back, their album "Heavy" signified the shift in their artistic direction that sent them on a different path than originally intended.

"'Heavy' came after we had won three Juno Awards three years in a row, six or seven MuchMusic Video Awards, West Coast

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This year, Hanson will celebrate the five-year anniversary of their Take The Walk charity campaign.

In 2007, brothers Isaac, now 31, Taylor, 29, and Zac, 26, started Take The Walk as a way to help those affected by extreme poverty and HIV/AIDS. Last week, they talked to Yahoo! Canada Music about their efforts, why it is important to participate and what the future has in store or the campaign.

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"The whole idea is to create an action that spawns more action," Taylor said. "The interesting thing about the campaign is that we actually give a dollar for every person that volunteers to do a walk. So, that dollar is our own commitment to the cause and then we encourage other people to donate as well and it's all specifically going to tangible things."

In five years, Hanson has had more than 50,710 individuals join them in their efforts and organized or taken walks to build schools, dig clean water wells, provide shoes and increase access to

Neverest (Photo by George Pimentel/WireImage)

Over the Juno Awards weekend, Yahoo! Canada Music caught up with Neverest, the talented pop-rock band from Toronto, Ont., and discussed which Juno Award has their eye and what they put into their swag bags during their visit to the Juno Celebrity Lounge.

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"This is [the] first year at the Junos where we are more well known," Neverest's lead guitarist, Mike Klose, said. "You hope that one day you'll get nominated for a Juno Award and it's something that we're striving for, but it's just great to be here and be amongst this company because these are all people that we look up to."

When asked what award the band would most like to be nominated for in the future, drummer Brendan Colameco had the answer, "Artist of the Year would be unbelievable or even Album of the Year," he said. "It would be incredible to be recognized for something that you've created."

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When they weren't signing autographs and

Cimorelli, a band of six sisters from Sacramento, California, has posted their latest video in honour of their friend, Maria, who was paralyzed from the waist down after being involved in a horrific car accident.

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"If you think about it, one moment can change your life forever," one of the girls says in the beginning of the clip. "This is Maria. At the start of the year, Maria was a healthy and average teenager…[but] on February 13, 2012, everything changed.  Maria was involved in a serious car accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down [and] traded cheerleading and hanging out with friends for physical therapy and hospital visits."

Singing their own rendition of Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," the girls are hoping to bring in any kind of donation and hope that fans will pray for their friend, saying in the video, "Together, we can all help Maria become strong again."

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You might recognize Nathan Barnatt as the guy from the Honda, Popeye's and M&M's commercials. He is an actor, comedian and Internet star who recently showed up at pop singer Kimberly Cole's latest open call audition for music video dancers as his alter ego, "Keith Apicary," and shocked everyone in the room with his crazy dance moves.

The hilarious video has gone viral earning over one million views in two days and manages to make you laugh because of Barnatt's sheer commitment to his character.

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In the video, "Keith Apicary" says that he found out about the audition through Twitter and makes a valiant effort to perform during group numbers, co-ed dances and even shows off a few of his "power moves" during his freestyle performances. He also takes care of the other dancers by offering them Capri Sun juice boxes and openly talks about his dance experience.

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Duncan Coutts, (left to right) Steve Mazur, Jeremy Taggart and frontman Raine Maida of the band Our Lady Peace. …

Our Lady Peace released their new album "Curve" yesterday and lead guitarist Steve Mazur and bassist Duncan Coutts talked to Yahoo! Canada Music before they took the stage for an intimate show at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto.

The band members credit a few words from their producer and friend, Jason Lader, as the turning point that changed the ultimate direction of "Curve," a record they say is one of the most "adventurous" they have ever done.

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"Jason is a very musical guy. He's a friend of ours [and] we really respect his opinion a lot," Mazur said. "He was over at [singer Raine Maida's] house one day and Raine played him the four or five ideas that we had started to record and Jason said, 'You don't listen to this kind of stuff, why are you making music like this? Why don't you make something that you would want to listen to the way that you listen to the records that you love?'"

Lader's questions led the band to scrapping all of their hard