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 [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Indie Road Trippin’
Our playlist this week comes from the suggestion given by a commenter on this blog, Morgana. She was doing some road trips and was looking for playlist suggestions. I may be late for her road [...]
Playlist Friday: Canadian Hip Hop Party
Canadian Hip Hop is what you will find on our playlist this week. Our friend Russ in Dearborn, Michigan posted on Facebook "Turned the neighbour kid onto Canadian hip-hop. Thanks, d-sisive, Cadence Weapon, Ghettosocks, Classified, [...]
Playlist Friday: Canada Day Celebration
The playlist this week is to celebrate Canada and the music we have here. Like many people I have some conflicted feelings on Canada 150. I don't want to celebrate the genocide of a culture [...]
Playlist Friday: National Indigenous Peoples Day
Our playlist today is in celebration of the newly named National Indigenous Peoples Day which was formerly called National Aboriginal Day. It may have been a couple days ago but I think we can still [...]
Playlist Friday: Polaris Music Prize Long List 2017
By Darlene Barss We have two playlists for you this week about the Polaris Music Prize Long List. One has a song representing each of the 40 albums that are on the official Long List. [...]
Playlist Friday: Tracks on Tracks, Then and Now
The playlist today is taking a look back at the artists that were on the train for Tracks on Tracks and seeing what they are up to now. Tracks on Tracks happened 5 years ago [...]
Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Music Prize Top 20
Playlist Friday is about my top 20 choices for the Polaris Music Prize Long List. I have until June 6 to make my choices so I thought I would share with you where I am [...]
Playlist Friday: Northern Lights
The playlist this week takes us up north to experience the Northern Lights of music from NWT, Yukon and Nunavut. I put them all together as it is an area whose music I was really [...]
Playlist Friday: Grant Lawrence Dirty Windshields
The playlist today is in honour of Grant Lawrence and his new book Dirty Windshields. There was a rockin' book release party last Saturday, May 13 in Vancouver. The Commodore was full of friends, family, [...]
