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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

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 [...]

By | December 30th, 2016|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , |18 Comments

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 [...]

By | December 23rd, 2016|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , |62 Comments

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 [...]

By | December 9th, 2016|Categories: Playlist, Playlists|Tags: , , , , |25 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 [...]

Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness Pt 2

By Darlene Barss Our Canadian Indie Stream of Consciousness continues. It began with a Canadian Indie song and that led to another and another until I had 20 songs that I brought to you. We [...]

By | November 3rd, 2016|Categories: Playlists|98 Comments

A Canadian Indie Halloween Playlist Story

By Darlene Barss Happy Hallowe’en to all. On this Halloween day, I am going to tell you a frightful tale. It may or may not make sense and it may or may not be scary, [...]

By | October 31st, 2016|Categories: Playlists|58 Comments