In Canada: The Beaches Named Billboard Canada’s Women of the Year 2025

Charlotte Cardin is passing the torch.

After winning Billboard Canada‘s inaugural Woman of the Year grant successful 2024, the Montreal popular singer-songwriter announced this year’s winner: The Beaches.

“I’m truthful blessed for them!” she said, opening the envelope and smiling. “It’s truthful good deserved. They’ve been sidesplitting it for a agelong time. They’re really, really, truly awesome girls.”

Cardin and iHeartRadio big Shannon Burns got connected a video telephone with The Beaches to present the quality connected Aug, 29 — the aforesaid time the set was celebrating the merchandise of its marque caller album, No Hard Feelings.

“I conscionable wanted to congratulate you and archer you that I emotion you guys and I deliberation your euphony is truthful amazing,” Cardin told the band, who gathered unneurotic to perceive the news. “I’m conscionable rooting for you always, always, always.”

After spending the summertime having their songs screamed backmost astatine them by tens of thousands of fans astatine Coachella, Osheaga and Pukkelpop successful Belgium, the Toronto set has released its critically acclaimed caller album, No Hard Feelings.

The circuit volition adjacent bring the set to its astir monumental performance truthful far, with the radical slated to play its largest ever headlining amusement astatine its hometown Scotiabank Arena connected Nov. 6.

Amidst that whirlwind, The Beaches volition people yet different vocation milestone aft being named Women of the Year astatine Billboard Canada Women successful Music 2025 — the archetypal clip Billboard’s prestigious flagship grant volition spell to a radical alternatively than a azygous artist.

The full set — Jordan Miller (lead vocals, bass), Kylie Miller (guitar), Leandra Earl (guitar, keys) and Eliza Enman-McDaniel (drums) — volition judge the honour astatine Billboard Canada Women successful Music connected Oct. 1 astatine Rebel successful Toronto.

“We’re truthful honoured to beryllium celebrated alongside truthful galore unthinkable women who person done truthful overmuch for the euphony industry,” says Kylie Miller successful a caller Billboard Canada cover story.

“Our squad is built astir women moving together, truthful anytime we get to observe communities of women uplifting 1 another, it feels amazing,” adds her sister Jordan.

Read astir The Beaches’ viral emergence and the momentum that is bringing them to adjacent bigger heights successful a caller Billboard Canada cover communicative here. – Richard Trapunski

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol Crash Drake’s Toronto House successful Nirvanna the Band the Show The Movie

Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol volition bash thing for the bit.

Last May, a information defender was shot extracurricular of Drake’s Bridle Path mansion successful Toronto. As section TV crews rushed to the scene, Johnson and McCarrol utilized it arsenic a filming opportunity.

The duo, known arsenic Nirvanna the Band, brought their ain cameras to papers the transgression country for their movie, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, which premiered astatine the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) connected Sept. 4.

It’s a revival of the pair’s beloved web bid and TV show, Nirvanna the Band the Show, which thrived connected nationalist stunts and wrong jokes.

In the film, Johnson and McCarrol reprise their roles arsenic 2 floundering Toronto musicians connected a ngo to publication a amusement astatine section Toronto barroom The Rivoli — which, of course, doesn’t spell arsenic planned.

Johnson and McCarrol were filming a country for their movie arsenic guests connected the section greeting vigor program, The Roz & Mocha Show, erstwhile they heard a defender had been changeable extracurricular Drake’s residence.

“Because it was a vigor station, they got the quality of the Drake shooting close there,” Johnson told The Canadian Press. They instantly knew it was a unsocial accidental that couldn’t beryllium passed up.

“[We] conscionable got into the van that we’d taken determination and we drove to Drake’s house,” t...