A Chat with Long Night’s Vish Khanna
Vish Khanna (Kreative Kontrol, Long Winter, and former CBC Radio 3 host) surprised music fans when it was announced last month that he would be hosting a live TV Show entitled Long Night, named partially [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 7th February 2017
Toronto’s Paper Bag Records launches new label Paper Bag Vintage Toronto’s Paper Bag Records has announced the launch of Paper Bag Vintage, a new label that will showcase and preserve great Canadian albums that have [...]
Indigenous group Northern Cree excited to kick off Grammy day festivities
When the Native American music album category was eliminated from the Grammys in 2011, Steve Wood thought that Northern Cree's run of nominations had likely reached its end but the group's co-founder was delighted to [...]
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 [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 31st January 2017
What Losing HMV Will Mean for Canadian Music: 10 Things to Consider Now that HMV Canada has been forced into receivership, I’ve been thinking about how drastically this will affect the Canadian music industry landscape. [...]
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 [...]
Playlist Friday: Stream of Thought January 2017
By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday brings us another Stream of Thought playlist. It is 3 hours of fairly recently released music from Canadian Indie artists. The titles of those songs then became a story. Sort [...]
New releases for the week ending January 27th 2017
This week sees a lot of Electronic music releases with 19 of the 86 titles, a little over 22%, coming from that genre. The next closest being experimental and hip-hop/rap, both at 14 releases or [...]
Modlee – Queendom
Quebec City's own Modlee has returned with a new Mixtape titled Queendom. Its release via Coyote Records on January 20th saw a project that featured 8 future-soul and underground hip-hop tracks about family, love and [...]
ICYMI for Tuesday 24th January 2017
Toronto’s Microforum gives vinyl a fresh spin, opens new record pressing plant Toronto manufacturer Microforum Services Group, which has been producing CDs, DVDs and other optical media for more than 15 years, looked to turn [...]