Playlist Friday: CBC Searchlight 2017 Round 2
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday this week is all about Round 2 of Searchlight. All the artists on the playlist successfully made it past Round 1 and are region finalists. The voting for round 2 [...]
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 [...]
International Women’s Day 2017
Due to the name this date bears (no not Wednesday) I wanted to give you a story about Canadian Women in Music but I decided against this because I am not Female and today is [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 7th March 2017
Radioplayer Canada Launches Radio App Radioplayer Canada is similar to Bell’s iHeartRadio app and has over 400 radio stations on the platform; in fact, it has almost every station that isn’t owned by Bell Media [...]
Tunes about Trump: Why these Canadian musicians won’t just ‘shut up and sing’
Sure, he's not their president. But that's not stopping some Canadian musicians from penning Donald Trump-tinged tunes and putting out music videos ripe with anti-Trump imagery. They join the many American musicians fighting Donald Trump's [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Longlist Playlist
By Darlene Barss The Polaris Music Prize is a not-for-profit organization that annually honours and rewards artists who produce Canadian music albums of distinction. A select panel of music critics judge and award the Prize [...]
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 [...]
Plumtree albums to be released on VINYL for the 1st time later this month
Label Obscura has announced that they will be releasing all three of Plumtree’s albums (Mass Teen Fainting // Plumtree Predicts The Future // This Day Won’t Last At All) on vinyl for the first time [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 28th February 2017
Sunrise Records to Move into 70 HMV Mall Locations Sunrise Records have negotiated contracts with mall landlords to take over the leases on 70 HMV locations across Canada. It currently operates 9 stores in Ontario. [...]
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 [...]