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 [...]

By | February 7th, 2017|Categories: News|29 Comments

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 [...]

By | February 6th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |28 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

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. [...]

By | January 31st, 2017|Categories: News|37 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

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 [...]

By | January 27th, 2017|Categories: New Music, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |38 Comments

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 [...]

By | January 26th, 2017|Categories: News|40 Comments

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 [...]

By | January 25th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |55 Comments

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 [...]

By | January 24th, 2017|Categories: News|30 Comments

Sarah Beatty – Bandit Queen

February 3rd will see the release of Hamilton-based musician Sarah Beatty's sophomore release Bandit Queen. Creator described as a folk fabled concept album that began with a 19th-century horse thief named Belle Starr Bandit Queen [...]

By | January 23rd, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |21 Comments