CCMA 2017 – The Winners
Sunday saw the SaskTel Centre in Saskatoon, SK play host to the great and the good of the North American Country Music scene for the latest instalment of the CCMA's annual award ceremony. Dean Brody [...]
New releases for the week ending September 8th 2017
Alvvays - Antisocialites Oh Archie, what have you done? It’s been three years since Alvvays’ self-titled album, a most auspicious indie-pop debut that doubled as a dog-eared short-story collection. Its breakout track was “Archie, Marry [...]
FME 2017: 15 Years of Authenticity and Passion
It was in the spirit of audacity and relevance that the FME concluded Sunday night on Kiwanis Beach, situated right in the heart of the city. A stage on the shores of the lake, a natural amphitheatre, [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 5th September 2017
Plumtree Project to give underrepresented groups a chance to rock out The Plumtree Project is a new education program by Mirus Records and the Halifax Pop Explosion designed to give eight participants access to instruments, [...]
Chris Ho – Places You’ve Been
The new record is a skilful assortment of eight distinctive yet similarly styled folk-rock tracks. Most of the songs are built on a strikingly simple acoustic framework of guitar and piano that grounds the music [...]
New releases for the week ending September 1st 2017
Discolor Blind - Long Vivid Dream The Long Vivid Dream opens up before the listener as if it were the prelude to an awakening, the moment where the mind is unawares of whether it is [...]
Goodbye Honolulu – No Honey
We all know how these band biographies go, right? Friends meet in high school, start jamming, form band in parents’ garage and everyone lives happily ever after. Well, Goodbye Honolulu DID meet in high school [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 28th August 2017
Beer giant shocked by Lund criticism Anger among the province's craft beer devotees over country music singer Corb Lund's toasting Budweiser's Alberta pedigree has surprised a spokesman for the brewing titan. (Sun) In The ‘Prison [...]
Blood and Glass – Hop the Fence
Through his black and white lens, Kaveh Nabatian directs this ravishing number. He follows the band’s frontwoman, Lisa Moore, alongside six dancers as they move gracefully and hide behind their hand-held fans. Exquisitely glamorous? Not [...]
New releases for the week ending August 25th 2017
Aron D'Alesio - Aron D'Alesio This record is a one-man show, featuring a one-man band who pieced it all together on his lonesome, from recording and playing each instrument to producing and mastering it — [...]