If You Want It from Sam Roberts Band

Sam Roberts Band launched a new track yesterday in an Instagram video just dripping with vector art goodness. And actual drips. https://www.instagram.com/p/BHXrxhcBWsK/ While we only get a short preview of "If You Want It," (If You [...]

By | July 3rd, 2016|Categories: New Music, News|Tags: , , |Comments Off on If You Want It from Sam Roberts Band

Open call for Polaris Music Prize poster designers

This year, Polaris is sending out an open call for designers to create these special works.

By | July 2nd, 2016|Categories: News, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: , , , , |3 Comments

From Zeus' forehead springs Ocean Potion

Just in time for the summer, Zeus announced today that guitarist Mike O’Brien and recently-added guitarist/keyboardist Jason Haberman have released four tracks from their new act, Ocean Potion (not the sunscreen). This is the first music [...]

Kathleen Edwards gets her guitar back

  Back in August 2015, Kathleen Edwards posted on Facebook that her rare and valuable 1957 Les Paul Junior guitar was stolen from her house in Stittsville, Ontario. Today, the Ottawa singer-songwriter posted a picture [...]

By | June 28th, 2016|Categories: News|Tags: , |257 Comments

Darbar’s Polaris long list playlist

  (That title feels like a tongue twister, eh?) The announcement of the 2016 Polaris Prize short list is in about two weeks. What started as a list of 40, will be shortened to 10. This [...]

By | June 28th, 2016|Categories: Awards, Playlists, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: |262 Comments