Rolling Stone Canada is expanding its reach with the launch of Rolling Stone Canada on SiriusXM, a new exclusive channel created in partnership with SiriusXM Canada.
Available today on the SiriusXM app (Channel 754), the channel combines music, artist interviews, entertainment news and cultural conversation into a daily listening experience inspired by the editorial voice of the 58-year-old brand. Programming spans chart-topping hits, influential catalog favourites and emerging artists, while providing listeners with the stories and perspectives behind the music.
The launch comes just months after Rolling Stone Canada's debut under ArtsHouse Media Group (AMG), with Tate McRae appearing as the publication's inaugural cover star. Since then, the brand has expanded through original reporting, cover stories, video content, live events and initiatives such as Future of Music, establishing itself as a growing voice in Canada's music and entertainment landscape.
Rolling Stone Canada on SiriusXM becomes the latest addition to SiriusXM Canada's lineup of Canadian programming, joining channels including Mixtape: North, Top of the Country Radio, Influence Franco, Iceberg, Indigiverse, The Tragically Hip Radio and Everything Is Broken, hosted by Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew.
The broadcaster has also invested in programming that reflects Canada's diverse music communities, including the launch of SiriusXM Dhamaka last year. Programmed by Emmy-nominated music supervisor Raoul Juneja, the channel celebrates South Asian music while supporting its continued growth across the country. SiriusXM Canada also continues to sponsor initiatives such as the annual Top of the Country competition.
"Rolling Stone has long been one of the most influential voices in music and culture, making this an exciting addition to SiriusXM's lineup of diverse Canadian programming," said Michelle Mearns, Senior Vice President, Programming & Operations at SiriusXM Canada. "Rolling Stone Canada offers listeners more than great music. It delivers discovery, storytelling, and cultural context that deepen the listening experience."
For Mo Ghoneim, Founder and President of ArtsHouse Media Group and Publisher of Rolling Stone Canada, the channel reflects the publication's continued evolution.
"Rolling Stone Canada has always been about connecting audiences to the people, stories, and moments shaping music and culture," Ghoneim said. "Launching Rolling Stone Canada on SiriusXM extends that mission beyond the page, creating a daily destination where the biggest hits, emerging artists, and editorial storytelling come together. It's an experience that reflects the voice, influence, and cultural authority of the Rolling Stone brand."
Owned by ArtsHouse Media Group, the same company behind Billboard Canada, Rolling Stone Canada continues to grow across editorial, video, live experiences and now audio, giving audiences another way to discover the artists, conversations and cultural moments shaping music in Canada.
Rolling Stone Canada on SiriusXM is now available across Canada on the SiriusXM app and in vehicles equipped with SiriusXM with 360L. Access to the SiriusXM app is included with most SiriusXM subscriptions.
Ken Casey stuck around after the show in San Diego, California, talking to members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
Some of the challenge-coin haul.
The band started as a bet. “My band has a show in three weeks,” Casey’s coworker told him in 1996. “I dare you to open for us.”John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
Dropkick Murphys (from left): Casey, DaRosa, Webster, Kelly, Rheault, Brennan, and Lynch John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
Casey is largely the voice of the band, but the other members back him up. “We’re so lucky he’s the mouthpiece,” says Brennan, left. John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
“Only the Irish can take a song about death and destruction, famine, alcoholism, and raise a glass like it’s an anthem,” says Casey. John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
“Anytime it feels like things are about to plateau for us, something gives us a little bump,” says guitarist Lynch. “It feels exciting. It feels dangerous. It feels like doing something.” John Francis Peters for Rolling Stone
Jay-Z performing at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis in Paris.
Jay-Z Deserves the Super Bowl Halftime Gig
Where’s the love? Jay-Z asked that question 25 years ago, in the chorus of one of many songs in his catalog that still move audiences today. If he performs “Heart of the City” as part of his Super Bowl halftime show next February, those indignant bars are sure to be a highlight: “First the Fat Boys break up, now every day I wake up, somebody got a problem with Hov…” It would be an appropriate choice, too — because then as now, any time Jay-Z notches a new achievement, people find a way to complain.
The jokes and nonsense started almost as soon as the first rumors trickled out that Jay, whose company Roc Nation has executive-produced the Super Bowl halftime show since 2019, might be choosing himself to headline next year’s show. “Jay-Z just Dick Cheney’d himself for the Super Bowl,” Puck‘s Matthew Belloni quipped on X last week, alluding to the time that the late prince of darkness, who’d been asked to run the vice-presidential search committee for George W. Bush’s 2000 campaign, put himself on the ticket. (Super hip and current reference, and not at all apples-and-oranges.) Others pointed to TMZ reports that pop stars like Harry Styles and Justin Bieber had been asked first. “How are they the frontrunners, and he end up in the front?” Cam’Ron, who’s delighted in trolling Jay for many years, wondered aloud on his podcast. “Out of all the people on the roster, they couldn’t pick nobody else?” asked Cam’Ron‘s co-host, Ma$e.
These critiques miss the point, which is that Jay-Z is one of the best choices for a high-profile gig like this. He’s a superstar with a comparable level of name recognition to any other A-lister in music. He has a deep stack of classic songs going back decades. And he’s a highly skillful live performer who knows his way around a stadium stage, as he’s spent this year reminding people on his Jay-Z 30 tour. He tore down Yankee Stadium three nights in a row this summer; just last week, he rocked SoFi Stadium, which happens to be the same place where the 2027 Super Bowl is being held. He held the crowd’s attention with ease at all of those shows, and though there were plenty of glittery guests — that’s a given at a Jay show, and it will surely be true at the Super Bowl, too — he did it mostly through the force of his own magnetic energy. Let’s state the obvious here: Jay-Z is really, really good at rapping. We’re talking about one of the slickest, sharpest talkers in the history of words, someone who made it to the top through a sustained act of myth-making, then kept going. Are we seriously asking whether he can handle a 15-minute televised performance?
And yeah, there’s a touch of self-congratulation in the way he appointed himself. So what? Praising his own gifts is arguably Jay-Z’s greatest talent of all. He made a fine art out of self-applause. He told his story again and again, retracing the steps from Marcy Projects to the corner suite, and he made us believe. It would almost be insulting to the audience if he didn’t give himself the gig at some point.
Pop culture observers in recent years surely remember the backlash to Super Bowl headliners like Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny — all of it at least culturally conservative, and much of it frankly just racist. The blowback to Jay’s announcement is mostly coming from other quarters, at least for now (let’s just wait to see what the right-wing swamps make of this one). But it’s disappointing in a different way. Jay-Z has spent his career expounding hip-hop as a mainstream commercial force. He’s not a businessman, he’s a business, man. But he’s also an artist. He’s made huge amounts of money, and gotten himself into the rarefied rooms where he even has the ability to give himself a gig like this, by spinning his experiences into compelling narrative art, one verse at a time. Let’s not lose sight of how impressive his life’s work really is. Jay-Z is not some random C-suite bro, and he’s definitely not Dick Cheney. He’s one of the greatest rappers of all time, by any measure. He’s earned that Super Bowl spot.