Playlist Friday: WCMA 2017 Winners

BreakOut West was in Edmonton this past weekend, Sept 13-17th, 2017 and the winners of the Western Canadian Music Awards were announced. Below is a list of the nominees with the winners in red print. [...]

By | September 22nd, 2017|Categories: Awards, Playlists|Tags: , , |49 Comments

Polaris Music Prize 2017

By Darlene Barss Today is the day we discover which artist will win the $50,000 Polaris Music Prize for 2017. I have enjoyed being a part of the  Polaris Music Prize process as a juror this year [...]

By | September 18th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: , , |106 Comments

Playlist Friday: Summer Lights Festival

By Darlene Barss The playlist this week has some of the artists that played last Saturday, Sept 9 at Summer Lights Festival in Brandon, MB. The festival was in its second year and hopefully will [...]

By | September 15th, 2017|Categories: Festivals, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |22 Comments

Playlist Friday: Back to School

It's that time of year! Summer holidays are over and it's time to head back to school. That is the theme of the playlist this week. Let me be your teacher and take you through [...]

By | September 8th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |63 Comments

Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Labour Day

Our playlist this week is about Labour Day done Canadian Indie style. The songs are based (sometimes loosely) on work, labour, jobs and also not having to do any of it with a splash of [...]

By | September 1st, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |49 Comments

Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Band Association

The playlist this week was inspired by a conversation on the hill at Interstellar Rodeo last weekend with myself, Loweeda and Liz. The Dead South were coming up and Liz was commenting on how the [...]

By | August 25th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |67 Comments

Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar

Our playlist this week is all about new songs on our radar. Spotify has their Release Radar playlists and now we have an OurBasement Release Radar playlist. I hope to make this a regular playlist [...]

By | August 18th, 2017|Categories: New Music, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |27 Comments

Playlist Friday: Regina Folk Fest 2017

This weekend is the Regina Folk Fest and I made a playlist to get a taste of what will be happening here in Regina. For one year only, they added a Thursday night to the [...]

By | August 11th, 2017|Categories: Festivals, Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |9 Comments

Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness Aug/2017

We are going to revisit our stream of consciousness playlist this week. It has been awhile since we have worked on it so let's see what we can come up with. Don't know what I [...]

By | August 4th, 2017|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , |128 Comments

Playlist Friday: Summer Festival Time

By Darlene Barss It's summer festival time and this week there is a playlist for summer and for a festival. Last weekend, July 21-23, I went to Gateway Music Festival in Bengough, SK. We took [...]

By | July 28th, 2017|Categories: Festivals, Playlists, Show review|Tags: , , , |35 Comments