Playlist Friday: Dance Marathon Day

By Darlene Barss Playlist Friday is all about dance to celebrate Dance Marathon Day. I found out that there was such a thing as National Dance Marathon Day and I stole it as my inspiration [...]

By | March 31st, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |52 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: 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 [...]

100 Canadian Indie Artists of 2016

By Darlene Barss I struggled with what to call this list. It isn't exactly top 100 because I limited it to one song per artist. It isn't my favourites though it is strongly biased to [...]

By | December 30th, 2016|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , |18 Comments

A Canadian Indie Christmas Story

By Darlene Barss We Three Kings were Comin' Home For Christmas which was 2000 Miles away. "Carry Me Home!" I cried. "I swear I'll Be Home For Christmas." I really want to Sing O'Holy Night [...]

By | December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , |62 Comments

Playlist Friday : French Canadian

By Darlene Barss Themed playlists can be fun to make and great to listen to. Think of something that connects the songs together. It could be in the title, in the lyrics or the name [...]

By | September 30th, 2016|Categories: Playlists|Tags: , , |111 Comments

Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness

By Darlene Barss This playlist stream started with one Canadian Indie song and then a word in the title of that song led to another Canadian Indie song and that led to another Canadian Indie [...]

By | September 23rd, 2016|Categories: Playlists|Tags: , |231 Comments

4.5 Free Albums Downloads

By Nick Jean "Never work for exposure" is one of the fundamental rules for beginning artists and designers. The opposite is often true for independent musicians, however. Exposure is one of the most valuable assets [...]