The nice folks over at Canadian Blast have put together a digital sampler which includes one track by every Canadian band who played during SxSW 2010. As long as you are okay giving them your name, email address and city, you can click here to go to their site and download the zip file. It includes everyone from well known artists such as Metric and … Continue reading SXSW Digital Sampler from Canadian Blast
Just a quick post today. The recent winter Olympics in Vancouver presented the rare opportunity for many of Canada’s greatest musicians to be gathered in one city for a few weeks. During the two weeks, along with watching Canada win a record number of gold medals, not just for a host country, but for any winter Olympics – these artists gathered in secret to record … Continue reading Young Artists for Haiti
Listening to the Polaris Gala on CBC Radio 3 because I can’t get the MuchMusic stream to work which is too bad because it would be nice to actually watch it. I really wish I could be there, but then, who doesn’t? So far, performances by Metric (acoustic) and Great Lake Swimmers. I have to work early tomorrow morning so hopefully it isn’t too much … Continue reading Finally, Polaris Results!
Here are my thoughts on each of the short listed candidates for the Polaris prize to be given out on Monday night (September 21 at 8:00EST). I’ll warn you and apologize in advance, this post is going to be a the lengthy side. — Elliot Brood – Mountain Meadows There are some really great tracks on this record like Write It All Down For You … Continue reading Polaris Shortlist Reviews
My ambitious goal of writing reviews of all the Polaris short list candidates ended up being impossible to realize partially due to laziness (for some reason, I could never figure out what to write about Hey Rosetta) and partially because I haven’t had time to listen to all of them on account of having a difficult finding them. I picked up Hey Rosetta and Chad … Continue reading Update on Polaris Reviews
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