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Playlist Friday: DarBar’s Polaris Long List

We are in the middle of Polaris Music Prize season and I am anxiously waiting to hear who makes it on to the Long List. The jurors votes are in and the official long list [...]

By darbarspecial| June 13th, 2019|Categories: Playlist, Playlists, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: Belle Plaine, Black Mountain, Canadian Indie Albums, Colter Wall, Dan Mangan, DarBar's Picks, Foxwarren, Fucked Up, Great Lake Swimmers, Moonface, Operators, Polaris Music Prize, Ponteix, PUP, Rich Aucoin, Royal Canoe, Shad, The Cosmic Range, Tim Baker, Trampoline, We Are The City|5 Comments

Playlist Friday: OurBasement Release Radar

It’s Release Radar playlist time! Release Radar are playlists that let you know what is new each month. We have a Spotify Release Radar playlist and a YouTube new video release playlist to help you [...]

By darbarspecial| April 12th, 2019|Categories: Playlist, Playlists, Video release|Tags: Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene, Canadian indie music, Dilly Dally, Grimes, Megan Nash, Odonis Odonis, Operators, Partner, Poor Nameless Boy, PUP, release radar, Skye Wallace, video release, Wintersleep|10 Comments

New releases for the week ending April 5th 2019

Moon King - Voice of Lovers (Arbutus Records) Throughout the album, each track flows easily from one to the next, creating a dance-floor-esque transition between songs. While this is an interesting method of making an [...]

By GarfieldUK| April 4th, 2019|Categories: New Music|Tags: Blessed, Charlotte Cornfield, Eden Samara, Field Guide, Gino Vannelli, Justin Wright, Manx Marriner Mainline, Marc Jordan, Moon King, Partner, PUP, Saint Lo, Sam Wilson, Steve Murphy|15 Comments

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 [...]

By darbarspecial| November 17th, 2016|Categories: Playlists|Tags: Alexisonfire, Arkells, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, Blue Rodeo, Broken Social Scene, By Divine Right, Canadian Indie, Cancer Bats, City and Colour, Consantines, Crystal Castles, Death From Above 1979, Fred Eaglesmith, Fucked Up, Great Lake Swimmers, Hawksley Workman, Hayden, Hollerado, Junior Boys, k-os, Kardinal Offishall, Kathleen Edwards, King Cobb Steelie, Metric, MSTRKRFT, music, Ontario, Peaches, PUP, Rheostatics, Ron Sexsmith, Skydiggers, Teenage Head, The Diodes, The Hidden Cameras, The Tragically Hip, Timber Timbre, Tokyo Police Club|37 Comments

Kaytranada wins the 2016 Polaris Music Prize

By Regina Sienra Kaytranada, the electronic producer from Montreal, was the winner of the 2016 Polaris Music Prize for his album 99.9%. The gala featured performances by Andy Shauf, Black Mountain, Basia Bulat, Carly Rae [...]

By reginula| September 19th, 2016|Categories: News, Polaris Music Prize|Tags: Andy Shauf, Basia Bulat, Jessy Lanza, Kaytranada, Polaris Music Prize, Polaris Music Prize 2016, PUP|116 Comments

Two Nova Scotia festivals announce their lineups

By Nick Jean While we're in the heights of summer, getting over the hangover of the past weekend's peak summer festivals, it's hard to believe it's already time to be thinking about the next season. [...]

By Top of our Lungs| July 27th, 2016|Categories: Festivals|Tags: #HPX2016, Alana Yorke, Basia Bulat, City Natives, Fake Palms, Halifax Pop Explosion, Hanna Georgas, Hey Rosetta!, Holy Fuck, In-Flight Safety, Mo Kenney, Monomyth, Nap Eyes, Nova Scotia Music Week, NSMW, Pkew Pkew Pkew, PUP, Royal Canoe, Supermoon, The Barr Brothers, Tuns, White Lung|139 Comments

OurBasement Playlist: Landmarks

By Regina Sienra Whether you live in a big city or small town Canada, there’s always a feeling of pride, belonging or representation when a building, a street, a station or any other landmark you [...]

By reginula| July 22nd, 2016|Categories: Playlists|Tags: Arkells, Blimp Rock, Chixdiggit, Coeur de Pirate, Cub, Great Lake Swimmers, Jason Collett, Joel Plaskett Emergency, John K. Samson, Luke Doucet, Matt Mays, playlist, PS I love you, PUP, Rah Rah, Said the Whale, The Constantines, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Tragically Hip, The Weakerthans|131 Comments

Polaris Shortlist Announced

The countdown clock is finally winding down. We're just hours away from the announcement of this year's Polaris Music Prize Shortlist. The 40 albums below will soon cut down to ten. Art Bergmann, The Apostate [...]