By: Sheena Lyonnais

It’s busy times for Caribou drummer Brad Weber. The multifaceted musician is gearing up for an international summer-long tour with music gods, Radiohead kicking off in Mexico next month. But first, some DJ sets in Germany. And then, somehow the debut release of his other and equally impressive project Pick A Piper. Caribou visits home with a gig at Downsview Park on June 16 (buy tickets now, drugs later). And while he should probably be packing, he instead grants us insight into his brilliant, rhubarb-laced mind with 20Qs.

Hey music fans, we’re planning a cross country giveaway of Gossip’s new CD on it’s May 22nd reveal.

How to Win:

Every Monday leading up to the 22nd, check out the Pink Mafia Facebook page, for trivia questions about the band and shoot us your answers to enter. We’ll announce THREE winners on May 22nd and mail that shit out pronto.

The more times you play, the better your chance to win. So get on it and get studying.

Membership to an exclusive club is all about cashing in on the perks. And this week for #HumpDayHandout, we’re dishing out two tickets to Young Lions Music Club’s upcoming monthly event ‘Songs: A Dance Party.

With a back pocket of featured artists from ‘Songs’ like The Drums, Young Empires, and Rural Alberta Advantage, this YLMC #HumpDayHandout is a party you won’t want to miss. A true double header, ‘Songs’ will have you bending the boards at Sneaky Dee’s with Holy Fuck’s Brian Borcherdt on the decks, all the whilst raising a toast in the name of Cousin’s brand new EP.

No Brainer, kitty cat in a cowboy hat! Bypass that line on College Street and get in to this sucker absolutely free.

How to Enter:

1) Follow @YoungLionsClub and @PinkMafia4life on Twitter. 2) AND Post a tweet that reads, “I want to get down with Holy Fuck and @YoungLionsClub  from #HumpDayHandout.”

OR, if you’re of the Facebook lurking persuasion…

1) Like PinkMafia and Young Lions Music Club Facebook pages. 2) AND Tag PinkMafia & Young Lions Music Club in a status update with the name of an artist you’d like to see featured at an upcoming Songs: A Dance Party. 

Dudebox, dubbed Toronto’s socially conscious party people, are a group of rad dudes who throw raging parties in the name of a good cause. Each event is held for a specific charity, people go out, enjoy the night and give something back to the community in a way that inspires people to do what they love most in a socially acceptable way.

There will be another Dudebox rager this month so keep in touch and check out the Dudebox Facebook and Twitter feeds for the announcement of where it’s going down and what it’s going to be for.

In the meantime, Said Yassin of Dudebox was kind enough to fill out our 20 Questions this week:

It’s the forth Friday of the month and that means TX Productions is back to bring you another night in the Fuck U Fridays series that you shouldn’t miss. CJ Sleez will be guest DJ’ing and the night of erotic cabaret fun.

Fan Art is one of the most beautiful ways someone can show how much they appreciate someone else’s art, and how you can tell that the artist(s) has such a loyal fan base. Meet Wendy Ding, 27 years old specializing in digital illustration, her love of MGMT made her spend 3 months in between contract work  at home listening to (D U H) MGMT over and over again, making sure everything was perfect right down to the opacity of the triangles, to the print of the paisley shirt. The final product captures the colourful world that the youth of MGMT live in, and completely embodies MGMT’s “kaleidoscopically psychedelic” sound (minus the heroin).

Coming to Toronto, on May 15 2012, the dynamic songstress, Santigold, will be pleasuring viewers with a live show at Kool Haus.

No stranger to the music scene, Santi White a.k.a. Santigold has also collaborated with a number of great artists including, MIA and Pharrell Williams. She’s written for Lily Allen and been featured in Kanye West’s track “Brooklyn Go Hard”. Needless to say, the girl knows her shit.

Launching tonight is one of the best Friday Night 19+ event series held at the most quintessentially entertaining venue space possible, the Royal Ontario Museum! As the first child in Ottawa to request for their birthday party to be help at the Museum of Science and Technology and a proud girl-guide who slept at every museum in Ottawa, more than once, it’s safe to say, I’m an avid lover of all things that incorporate knowledge and hands on learning experiences. Now, at 25, I can also add avid party attendee to my list of accomplishments, thus, this event is quite possibly the culmination of all things amazing in my humble opinion. A part of me thinks there is a large section of the community that agrees whole heartedly with this.

Lioness will be releasing their full-length debut, The Golden Killer, on April 17, and to celebrate we’ve taken the time to get Vanessa Fischer, lead vocalist of the band, to pump out some answers to our 20 questions. The album promises to provide a broad spectrum and is being described as Daft Punk meets Sabbath with an array of dance beats mixed with some heavy metal that is sure to get your pulse pumping.

Celebrating the new album, Lioness choose the perfect day, Friday, April 13, 2012, to throw a release party. They’re ready to put you under their spell at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto.

Ryan Hemsworth, an Electro-soul master and home grown man of our hearts is in town and he’ll be playing at the Drake Tonight. This guy is a rising success story with tons on coverage including a feature on SPIN Magazine‘s Best R&B Albums of 2011.

The show is sure to be awesome and we’ve touched base with Ryan to answer our 20 questions, he willingly obliged and has provided us with some truly in depth wisdom and insight into his personality that is worth the read. Funny and thought provoking, here’s what he had to say:

Singer song-writer, Peter Katz is up for DVD of the Year at the Juno’s and hee’s got a new album coming out, Still Mind Still, at the end of April (24th). Pop the bubbly, Peter Katz definitely has something to celebrate. Read below for his very honest and sincere answers to the 20 Qs.

March 21 was the first night of many in the amazing showcase of raw talent that is Canadian Music Week and I hit up the Piston to see the Ottawa based band Zoo Legacy who opened the show for a long list of talented bands like Sound of Lions(another Ottawa based band representing up in Tdot) and Dream Jefferson, all of which rocked the house like no other. I could not have been more moved by the emotion and true untamed talent that performed.

Nick Pouponneau, lead vocals, a rapper by trade, started the show by forcing the crowd to move forward.

“We don’t bite” he said, as people moved up.

This was just the beginning of the engagement that Nick solicits from his audience. As the show continued, he constantly made reference to the crowd and had people making as much noise as he possibly could.

Our boy T.Mills will be performing Friday, March 23 at the Opera House in Toronto and we’re phsyched

We love T.Mills and know that you do to0, so here’s the deal, tweet us your favourite song from the T.Mills Leaving Home album to @pinkmafia4life and enter in the chance to win a pair of tickets to the show.

Here’s some inspiration to get you started.

If you don’t get lucky, hell, we’re sorry, but you can still grab tickets at ticketweb. CLICK HERE for the link!

Peace!