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 [...]

By | March 10th, 2017|Categories: News, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |76 Comments

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 [...]

By | March 3rd, 2017|Categories: News, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |39 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

Playlist Friday: Nuances of Nova Scotia

By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday brings us the Nuances of Nova Scotia playlist. It seems to be another province with a hotbed of  talent in it. For a small province I sure ended up with [...]

By | February 17th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |40 Comments

Playlist Friday: Hearts and Love

By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday’s theme is full of Hearts and Love in time for the upcoming Valentine’s Day. There are songs of Red Hearts, Stained Glass Hearts, Paper Hearts, broken Hearts and songs of [...]

By | February 10th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |59 Comments

Playlist Friday: Black History Month in Canada

By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday this week is to honour Black History Month with the focus being on black musicians of Canada and the music they make. Our playlist has a couple of musicians from [...]

By | February 3rd, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists, Uncategorized|Tags: , , |51 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

Winterruption 2017 Saskatchewan Playlist

By Darlene Barss Winterruption 2017 Saskatchewan is the focus of our playlist today. It includes music of most of the artists playing January 19 - January 22 in Regina and Saskatoon. Regina Folk Festival have [...]

Playlist Friday: New Brunswick Notes

By Darlene Barss It is Playlist Friday and the province of New Brunswick is the focus of our playlist this week. I thought about making it an East Coast playlist but there was just far [...]

By | January 13th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , |48 Comments

Top 9 Canadian Albums of 2016

9 Wintersleep - The Great Detachment Wintersleep's sixth studio album marked a return to form for the group. Compared to the band's previous two efforts these tracks sound absolutely expansive. It was recorded primarily live-off-the-floor [...]