Playlist Friday: Remembering Gord Downie
Statement from Gord Downie's webpage Oct 17, 2017 Last night Gord quietly passed away with his beloved children and family close by. Gord knew this day was coming – his response was to spend this [...]
Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar
Playlist Friday brings us another edition of OurBasement Release Radar. There are almost 100 songs on our playlist that have been released in the last couple months. Some of them are remixes, other songs are [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving weekend in Canada so we of course have a Canadian Indie Thanksgiving playlist for you. There are songs about home and family and food and giving thanks for the blessings. It's important to [...]
Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Autumn
It is officially autumn and we have a playlist for the season. Autumn is from Sept 22 to Dec 21 and hopefully will ease us into the next season gently. It may feel like summer [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]