ICYMI for Tuesday 17th January 2017

Google Predicts Breakout Artists in Canada for 2017(?) Based on what kind of new music Canadians are searching for through Google Play Music, the boffins who collect such data have determined these are ten emerging [...]

By | January 17th, 2017|Categories: News|31 Comments

Blood and Glass – Punk Shadows

Blood and Glass was created when singer-songwriter Lisa Moore met Montreal-based musician Morgan Moore who helped her finish what would become her first EP. The pair would go on to perform as a duo before [...]

By | January 16th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: |28 Comments

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

The Smugglers Reunite!

By our chief California correspondent Lee Hower “You are the FIRST person outside of my wife and my bandmates to know about this show.” Those were the words in an email I received from Grant [...]

By | January 11th, 2017|Categories: Show review|Tags: , |38 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 10th January 2017

ECMA in Dispute with Musicians in Canada The Canadian Federation of Musicians entered into a labour dispute with the ECMA in December after CFM claimed the ECMA was refusing to enter into a new collective [...]

By | January 10th, 2017|Categories: News|30 Comments

Not liking music linked to poor brain connectivity: study

According to a new study, people who do not like music at all may have a condition called specific musical anhedonia which is thought to be the result of reduced connectivity between two regions in [...]

By | January 9th, 2017|Categories: News|40 Comments

Hollerado Release New Single “Born Yesterday”, New Album set to come out in the Spring – Plus: A Canadian Indie Winter Playlist

Friday January 6, 2017. Today, Hollerado released the first single for their new album entitled "Born Yesterday", as the band stated on their Twitter account: It will be available on: "Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, YouTube, The [...]

By | January 6th, 2017|Categories: News|23 Comments

New releases for the week ending January 6th 2017

With a new year comes even more new music. He are a few of my selections for this week. To see the full list of this weeks releases why not open this in a new [...]

By | January 5th, 2017|Categories: New Music|45 Comments

ICYMI News from the past week for Wednesday 4th January 2017

Lineup announced for Coachella festival Seeking to challenge the New Year’s blues Coachella released the lineup for its sunny summer festival yesterday. Or if California isn't exotic enough for you, you could always head out [...]

By | January 4th, 2017|Categories: News|55 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 [...]