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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness: December 2016 extension
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 [...]
Qualité Québec Playlist
By Darlene Barss We have done a French Canadian playlist previously that you may have thought was for the province of Quebec but no it was not. That playlist focused on songs in French and [...]
Ode To Ontario Playlist
by Darlene Barss Our playlist today is an ode to all those Ontario musicians we know and love. There is no shortage of talent coming out of that province that is for sure. Broken Social [...]