New releases for the week ending March 10th 2017

Amelia Curran - Watershed (Six Shooter) Amelia Curran's eighth album, Watershed, sees the St. John's songwriter's advocacy work with It's Mental spilling over more openly into her songwriting: Her songs are inhabited by the black [...]

By | March 9th, 2017|Categories: New Music|31 Comments

New releases for the week ending March 3rd 2017

B.A. Johnston - Gremlins 3 (Wyatt Records) B.A. Johnston may not have taken home the Polaris Music Prize for his last effort Shit Sucks, but fans of the guitar-wielding Hamilton hero will have another chance [...]

By | March 2nd, 2017|Categories: New Music|39 Comments

Richard Laviolette – Taking The Long Way Home

We haven't heard much from Richard Laviolette recently but he just announced plans for a new LP. Following up 2010's All of Your Raw Materials with the Oil Spills, Laviolette will release Taking the Long [...]

By | February 27th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |57 Comments

Playlist Friday: CBC Searchlight 2017 Round 1

By Darlene Barss CBC Searchlight, CBC Music's nationwide search for the best up-and-coming musicians across Canada returns for its fifth year. As in 2016, the top 4 finalists will vie for the grand prize on [...]

By | February 24th, 2017|Categories: New Music, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |68 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 24th 2017

I was half way through this weeks post before I realized I had to delete it and start again because the albums I had selected had not been released this week even though it had [...]

By | February 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Music|64 Comments

Jon Mckiel – Brothers

With its tender and measured sway, "Brothers" stands in stark contrast to Memorial Ten Count's kinetic first offering, "Conduit," exchanging agitated protest for a beautiful and humble honesty. "It can never be a measured move [...]

By | February 22nd, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |39 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 17th 2017

This week sees eighty-seven new releases via bandcamp and you can find them all listed here or just check out my picks below. This week first Pick comes from Adam Bae from Vancouver, BC. Exposed [...]

By | February 16th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: , , |24 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 10th 2017

Hello and welcome to this week's new Music Thursday. You can find my selections below or if that isn't enough new music for you why not head over to out New Music page to see [...]

By | February 9th, 2017|Categories: New Music|39 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 3rd 2017

I am going to start by apologizing for the lack of a full page of releases but that should be up by tomorrow morning at the latest (I will post the link in the comments [...]

By | February 2nd, 2017|Categories: New Music|36 Comments

Austra – Future Politics

Katie Stelmanis is always making political statements through her art, from her time with riot grrl band Galaxy to her more muted project, Austra. Stelmanis wrote Future Politics before the election results giving the album’s [...]

By | January 30th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |31 Comments