ICYMI for Tuesday 21st February 2017

Tom Petty, LCD Soundsystem, Muse, Pink to headline Ottawa Bluesfest Monahan and crew unveiled the lineup for Ottawa's premiere summer music bash Tuesday, and it's clear they spared no expense in curating arguably the fest's [...]

By | February 21st, 2017|Categories: News|45 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 17th 2017

This week sees eighty-seven new releases via bandcamp and you can find them all listed here or just check out my picks below. This week first Pick comes from Adam Bae from Vancouver, BC. Exposed [...]

By | February 16th, 2017|Categories: New Music|Tags: , , |24 Comments

It’s Wednesday and I have run out of ideas

As the title suggests it is indeed Wednesday and I have no idea what to write for today's subject. I think it is mostly known as writer's block (why not creators block?). That feeling you [...]

By | February 15th, 2017|Categories: News|80 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 14th February 2017

Wayhome 2017 line-up announced Event organizer’s Republic Live put last week’s WayHome line-up rumours to bed this morning, with the official announcement of the 2017 line-up for Wayhome Music and Arts Festival. Microforum hoping new [...]

By | February 14th, 2017|Categories: News|70 Comments

The 2017 Grammy Awards

Canadian artists took home three Grammy Awards, all of which came during the pre-telecast portion of the ceremonies on Sunday. Drake won two Grammy Awards, bring his career tally to three, for “Hotline Bling” in [...]

By | February 13th, 2017|Categories: News|32 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 10th 2017

Hello and welcome to this week's new Music Thursday. You can find my selections below or if that isn't enough new music for you why not head over to out New Music page to see [...]

By | February 9th, 2017|Categories: New Music|39 Comments

A Chat with Long Night’s Vish Khanna

Vish Khanna (Kreative Kontrol, Long Winter, and former CBC Radio 3 host) surprised music fans when it was announced last month that he would be hosting a live TV Show entitled Long Night, named partially [...]

By | February 8th, 2017|Categories: News|36 Comments

ICYMI for Tuesday 7th February 2017

Toronto’s Paper Bag Records launches new label Paper Bag Vintage Toronto’s Paper Bag Records has announced the launch of Paper Bag Vintage, a new label that will showcase and preserve great Canadian albums that have [...]

By | February 7th, 2017|Categories: News|29 Comments

Indigenous group Northern Cree excited to kick off Grammy day festivities

When the Native American music album category was eliminated from the Grammys in 2011, Steve Wood thought that Northern Cree's run of nominations had likely reached its end but the group's co-founder was delighted to [...]

By | February 6th, 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |28 Comments

New releases for the week ending February 3rd 2017

I am going to start by apologizing for the lack of a full page of releases but that should be up by tomorrow morning at the latest (I will post the link in the comments [...]

By | February 2nd, 2017|Categories: New Music|36 Comments