We went to see Tanya Tagaq make her big post-Polaris return to Halifax, a city in which she lived for many years at St. Matthew's United Church on Saturday night as part of Halifax Pop Explosion. Here's what we saw.

1) The loop science of Paper Beats Scissors

Haligonian singer-songwriter Paper Beats Scissors, real name Tim Crabtree, isn’t your typical man with a guitar and feelings. Instead, he used a series of loop pedals to create rich, textured soundscapes. He also did a great cover of R.E.M.’s “Southern Central Rain,” which will sell us on you every time.

2) Paper Beats Scissors’ charming stage banter

At one point he suggested we all sign up for his mailing list so he can tell us his “favourite recipes and what I’ve been watching on the telly.” (He quickly clarified that that was not, in fact, what the mailing list would be used for.

3) The majestic surroundings of St. Matthew’s United Church

As a venue, the church provides rich, vibrant sound that carries perfectly. It’s never distorted or echo-y and, in terms of sound quality, there are no bad seats. It also provides a dramatic backdrop for a performance. When the house lights dropped and the apse turned red, it made it feel as if something magical was about to happen.

4) Tanya Tagaq’s origin story

Tagaq didn’t actually start throat singing until she left Nunavut. At the start of her performance, she talked about how, while she was attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, her mother sent her a tape with the words “‘80s hits” scratched out and “throat singing” written underneath. The tape not only cured her homesickness, it also caused her to start constantly throat singing around her apartment.

5) Some remarkably real talk

In the middle of her set, Tagaq started talking about death. While this sounds like it would be a huge downer, it was actually weirdly uplifting. She basically told us to make sure we were living lives we could be proud of and making the most of our relationships. We kind of wanted to hug her by the end of it

6) A mind-blowing, trance-inducing improvised set by Tagaq

Anyone who was expecting a run through of Tagaq’s Polaris Prize winning Animism on Saturday night would have been temporarily disappointed. Tagaq opted to do an entirely improvised set, instead. Working with a drummer and guitarist, Tagaq created a performance that was totally captivating. The juxtaposition of the guttural, primal throat singing — which Tagaq explained is meant to recreate the sound of the Northern landscape and the animals that live on it — and Tagaq’s haunting soprano singing voice was breathtaking. Watching her throw herself around the stage while singing, non-stop, for the better part of an hour was like going on a mental journey. When she stopped, there was 20 full seconds of silence while the audience recovered and processed what they’d seen. It was brilliant.

While you were picking out your costume for next weekend, a lot of things were happening in the world of live music. Here's a rundown.

Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert featured both Florence and the Machine and Temple of the Dog

For those of you who don't know, the Bridge School is a not-for-profit organization for children with special needs, which was co-founded by Neil Young's wife, Pegi. Every year, Neil Young hosts a big concert in Mountain View, Calif. to raise money for it. Every year, that show is so awesome it's almost mind-blowing.

This year's edition featured both Florence and the Machine, playing in the U.S. for the first time in over a year, and grunge supergroup Temple of the Dog, who were playing together for only the fourth time since 1991.

Videos came out of Ariel Pink singing with children

Earlier this month, Pink visited P.S. 22 in Staten Island, N.Y. Not only did he answer questions from the kids at the school, but he also performed two number from his upcoming album, pom pom, with the school choir. The videos finally came out this morning.

Alvvays announced a tour of England

They'll be doing nine shows between Manchester and Bristol in January. We love that band. We're excited for then

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Today, Pete Morey sits in the hot seat as Rich tours his new album, Neverlove.

PETE'S PICK: Erland Oye’s "Garota"

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

Extreme wheelbarrowing:

Bobcat plays pumpkin soccer:

Fireplace Fairy:

REAR-VIEW MIRROR:

Three times a week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. Today, The Velvet Underground with "I'm Waiting For The Man".

here

Listen to the audio version of Rear-view Mirror by hitting the Play button

Here’s the story of a record about drugs, prostitution and weird sex that was made by Andy Warhol, was inspired by the denizens of his Factory, William S. Burroughs and the Fluxus art movement, was released, ignored, thrown in the garbage, dug out by a guy from Montreal and sold on eBay for $25,000.

Andy Warhol, put up the money and gave the freedom to a band called The Velvet Underground to release their first album. The songs were written by Lou Reed. He studied English at Syracuse University and loved the works of writers like William S. Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr. He thought that combining the gritty subject matter of that kind of literature with rock and roll was an “obvious” thing to do.

The experimental sound of the album was conceived by John Cale who was influenced by experimental musicians like La Monte Young, John Cage and the early Fluxus movement. He and Lou Reed hacked their instruments and invented strange new tunings.

Andy Warhol designed the artwork for the album and, acting as the band’s manager, began to seek a record deal for the outfit.

He was rejected by one label after another. After a long delay, the album was finally picked up by legendary jazz label Verve: home of Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. Of all companies! But Verve barely supported the album at all. It was also banned from almost every radio station and record stores. Magazines wouldn’t even run advertisements for the album. It was just too strange and dark for most tastes in 1967.

The original demo of the album that had been pressed to vinyl was discarded and was lost and forgotten about until 2002 when a record collector from Montreal named Warren Hill found it at a flea market and bought it for 75 cents. By that time, history had shed new light on the album. Critics now hail it as a masterpiece. Spin Magazine put it on their very short list of the most influential albums of all time and Rolling Stonenamed it the most prophetic album ever made. When Warren Hill listed the album on eBay in 2006, it sold for a whopping $25,000.

Here’s one of the songs that people ignored, hated or ran away from, screaming, in 1967, but that is now regarded as a revolutionary classic. The story of a drug score called “I’m Waiting for the Man” by Velvet Underground.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller "I Fought The Law"

Big Star "September Gurls"

The Hollies "Bus Stop"

Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Neil Young "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton "Jolene"

The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor "Fire And Rain"

The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. "Paper Planes"

The Animals "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse "Rehab"

New York Dolls "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"

George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA"

The Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones 'Miss You'

The Coasters 'Run Red Run'

Elvis Costello, 'Alison'

James Brown, 'Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)'

Inner Circle, 'Tenement Yard'

Ray Charles, 'I Don't Need No Doctor'

Curtis Mayfield, 'Freddy's Dead'

Gang Starr, 'Beyond Comprehension'

Bo Diddley, 'Bo Diddley'

Aretha Franklin, 'Rocksteady'

CCR, 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf, 'Smokestack Lightning'

Bobby Womack, 'Across 110th Street'

Roy Orbison, 'In Dreams'

Foggy Hogtown Boys, 'Man of Constant Sorrow'

Pink Floyd, 'Wish You Were Here'

Neil Young, 'Cortez The Killer'

Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

Little Eva, 'Loco-Motion'

Elvis Costello, 'Watching the Detectives'

Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come'

The Verve, 'Bittersweet Symphony'

Roberta Flack, 'Killing Me Softly with his Song'

R.E.M., 'Radio Free Europe'

Radiohead, 'No Surprises'

Led Zeppelin, 'Ramble On'

Glen Campbell, 'Wichita Lineman'

John Cougar Mellencamp, 'Pink Houses'

Rolling Stones, 'Beast of Burden'

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of Rock Your Campus is McGill University's Busty and the Bass.

After hundreds of students entered their original songs and the public voted for their favourites, our celebrity judges Cirkut, Max Kerman from Arkells, and CBC Radio 2 host Talia Schlanger, determined Busty and the Bass the winner of the competition.

Busty and the Bass is a nine-piece collective of musicians from across North America who met during their first year at McGill University. Originally born out of small, impromptu Montreal house parties, "Busty" has evolved to become a tight electrofunk band playing powerful original music and innovative covers.   

"Hopefully Rock Your Campus empowers them to keep going. Being validated once in a while will help in momentum," says Max Kerman from Arkells. "I was very surprised, this was much better than the music we made in university. Things are looking up."

"We are blown away by the level of talent on campuses across the country. But ultimately, it had to be Busty and the Bass," says Talia Schlanger. "Exceptional musicianship, wild creativity and pure fun, we can't wait to see where they go." 

"A big thank you for giving us a platform to get our stuff out to the world and a big thank you to our fans," says Milo Johnson, bass player for Busty and the Bass. "This process of the competition, of Rock Your Campus, has been such good training for us and a reminder that the music we play is to bring to the places that we come from – our homes, our colleges and of course, our moms. Thank you for allowing us to continue this surge of playing music for people."

Busty and the Bass will receive a $10,000 cash prize, a concert performance at McGill University and the opportunity for a one-year contract to join a YouTube multi-channel network for management, as well as the bragging right title of Best Campus Band 2014.

For more info on Busty and the Bass' performance at McGill University, check out rockyourcampus.ca.

Watch below as the judges discuss the Rock Your Campus Top 5 with Gunnarolla and decide on a winner:  

Here they are, your top 30 Canadian indie songs this week!

:: Click here to Vote on next week's chart!::

The R3-30 for October 27, 2014
30. Elephant Stone "Wayward Son"
29. Caribou "Our Love"
28. Mo Kenney "Telephones"
27. The Harpoonist and The Axe Murderer "Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To"
26. Port Juvee "Revenge"
25. Wish "Retrograde"
24. Grimes "Go (feat. Blood Diamonds)"
23. Slow Down Molasses "Summer Sun"
22. The Provinical Archive "Full of Water"
21.Bahamas "Stronger Than That"
20. Mac DeMarco "Blue Boy"
19. The Wilderness Of Manitoba "Leave Someone"
18. Rich Aucoin "Want To Believe"
17. Close Talker "Burnstick"
16. High Ends "Intoxicated"
15. CTZNSHP "Low Lives"
14. Cold Specks "Bodies at Bay"
13. Megan Lane "Someday We Will Leave This Town"
12. Stella Ella Ola "Hypersleep"
11. Rococode "Banks"
10. Buck 65 "That's The Way Love Dies"
9. Alvvays "Atop A Cake"
8. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith "Vessel"
7. Operators "Start Again"
6. July Talk "Blood + Honey"
5. Elliott Brood "Tired"
4. Stars "From the Night"
3. New Pornographers "Dancehall Domine"
2. Library Voices "Windsor Hum"
1. Rural Alberta Advantage "On The Rocks"

And now on to... the Listener List!

Every week  we take a little detour from the R3-30 to play a few of the tracks you’ve chosen around a theme, we call it the Listener List.

This week you’ll be hearing tracks that are just perfect for Halloween. Whether spooky, creepy or fun in sound or name, there’s a few to get you in the mood for Friday.

Now, time for a new theme: band names that are impossible to search! Okay, they aren’t impossible, but definitely not easy to find in the sea of band name similarity in Google! What bands have you found it hard to find online?

Post your comments and suggestions on the blog or tweet @cbcradio3

Sunday is the night of the vampires, devils, wolves, monsters as The Strombo Show delivers the annual Hallowe'en Special.

We will run the gamut this Sunday night, keeping the spirits of radio alive by delivering the best records in the best order. It's the show for music lovers by music lovers.

We'll be ranging over three hours of commercial-free music to honour both old and new from George's house for his favourite holiday, from Rosemary Clooney to Ministry, Roky Erickson to Geto Boys.

More than a few friends of the program will be joining us to spin some records and share their Halloween stories, including:

- The Barr Brothers
- Basia Bulat
- Brave Shores
- Bry Webb of The Constantines
- Chromeo
- The Darcys
- Death From Above 1979
- Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon
- Kandle Osborne
- Lana Gay of CBC Radio
- Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!
- Torquil Campbell of Stars
- Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

...and more!

As always, we'll be tipping our hats to those ground-breakers and game-changers with a Nod to the Gods, spinning the best new tracks, paying tribute to Tom Waits on Ten with Tom and we'll send you into the collective horizontal with the Big Lie Down.

Carve a pumpkin, eat some candy and join the collective. Happy Hallowe'en!

MAGNIFICENT 7

PLAYLIST

In July of 1966, Bob Dylan was in a motorcycle accident that would change music forever. That may sound like an overly dramatic statement, but the events that followed challenged the rock n' roll of the day and marked a major milestone in the famous musician’s career.

Following the accident, Dylan cloistered in his home in the Woodstock, New York area, where he was joined by a five-piece rock group known as the Hawks (and later, the Band), who had backed him up on his controversial electric tour of 1965-66. Consisting of four Canadians (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Garth Hudson) and one American (Levon Helm), Dylan and the Band recorded more than 100 tracks in Robertson's nearby home, nicknamed "Big Pink," incorporating a wide range of traditional American genres: rock, country, gospel, blues, R&B and folk. The results, known thereafter as the Basement Tapes, lead the way for the Americana movement and marked the beginning of a new era for Dylan as well as the Band, who released their debut album, Music from Big Pink, in 1968. 

Some songs were released in 1975 as The Basement Tapes, but it was incomplete and criticized for not being truly representative of what the group was creating. Now for the first time, every salvageable recording from those sessions, including recently discovered works, is in one spot: The Basement Tapes Complete. Available Nov. 4, the six-disc box set was compiled chronologically by Hudson and Canadian music archivist/producer Jan Haust. You can stream a 12-song sampler of it below.

There’s alternate takes of classic Dylan songs, unreleased interpretations of traditional folk songs, covers and several starts and stops as the musicians improvise in a carefree and creative environment. On "You Ain’t Going Nowhere," the chorus and melody are clearly intact, but the lyrics to the verses seem to be made up on the spot. On the previously unreleased "I’m Your Teenage Prayer," everyone involved seems clearly well-imbibed and enjoying the free reign to just see where the music takes them.  

Most notably, however, is the inclusion of "I Shall be Released," a song that was left of the 1975 release of the Basement Tapes, with later versions included on Music from Big Pink and Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II in 1971. Now we get to hear the first take of the classic song that's been covered by the Beatles, among many, many others, and will always stand out as the closing song from the Band’s final concert, the Last Waltz.    

It's included on the 12-song sampler below. In the gallery above is a track-by-track commentary taken from the box set’s liner notes in order to give you more context for the songs you’re listening to.

The Basement Tapes Complete is available Nov. 4. You can pre-order the complete box set at Amazon, or a two-disc version called The Basement Tapes Raw: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, which is also available Nov. 4. Pre-order on Amazon as well.

Follow Jesse Kinos-Goodin on Twitter: @JesseKG

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Listen to the rest of CBC Music's First Play streams this week, including Neil Young, the Doobie Brothers, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and more.

These days, there really are no limits on how an artist can deliver their recordings. In the gallery above, let's check out some unique vinyl releases and limited edition bundles you probably don't want to miss this month. 

The Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal has a vast recorded legacy behind them. But, there’s one badge of orchestral honour that the orchestra has never worn. They’ve never released a complete recording of Beethoven’s nine symphonies. Until now.

Under music director Kent Nagano, the OSM has been gradually rolling out Beethoven recordings over the past six years. Their project culminates on Nov. 4, with the release of a boxed set that includes all five hours and forty minutes of “the nine,” with a few extracts from The Creatures of Prometheus and Egmont thrown in as bonuses.

To Nagano, this project represents more than just another item to cross off the bucket list. In his introduction to the new set, Nagano writes about how the Beethoven symphonies can be interpreted afresh by each new generation of listeners. So, this set offers an opportunity for new Beethoven fans to jump onboard.

In celebration of the fact that the OSM has joined the ranks of other great orchestras in rapturous Beethovenian completion, we’re streaming the whole six-CD set for your binge-listening pleasure.

Tracklist
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
I. Adagio molto — Allegro con brio
II. Andante cantabile con moto
III. Menuetto: Allegro molto e vivace — Trio
IV. Adagio — Allegro molto e vivace

Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
I. Poco sostenuto — Vivace
II. Allegretto
III. Presto — Assai meno presto
IV. Allegro con brio

Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
I. Adagio molto — Allegro con brio
II. Larghetto
III. Scherzo: Allegro
IV. Allegro molto

Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
I. Adagio — Allegro vivace
II. Adagio
III. Allegro molto e vivace — Un poco meno allegro
IV. Allegro ma non troppo

Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. 55
I. Allegro con brio
II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
IV. Allegro molto

The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43 (excerpts)
Overture — Adagio. Allegro molto con brio
Introduction — Allegro non troppo
V. Adagio — Andante quasi allegretto
VIII. Allegro con brio — Presto
XVI. Finale: Allegro molto — Presto

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
I. Allegro con brio
II. Andante con moto
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro 

Egmont, Op. 84 (excerpts) Overture
I. Lied "Die Trommel gerühet"
IV. Lied "Freudvoll und leidvoll"

Opferlied, Op. 121b

Grosse Fuge in B-Flat major, Op. 133 (arr. Felix Weingartner)

Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Andante molto mosso
III. Allegro
IV. Allegro
V. Allegretto

Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
I. Allegro vivace e con brio
II. Allegretto scherzando
III. Tempo di menuetto
IV. Allegro vivace

Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace — Presto
III. Adagio molto e cantabile — Andante moderato
IV. Finale: Presto — Allegro assai — Andante maestoso — Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato

Each day, Rich Terfry and Radio 2 Drive wraps up your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Today, Pete Morey sits in the hot seat as Rich tours his new album, Neverlove.

PETE'S PICK: Bob Dylan's - "The Man In Me"

JUNK IN THE TRUNK:

1 song, 1 singer, 20 different styles:

An impossible-to-distract cat:

Pugs in costumes:

REAR-VIEW MIRROR:

Three times a week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. Today, The Velvet Underground with "I'm Waiting For The Man".

here

Listen to the audio version of Rear-view Mirror by hitting the Play button

Here’s the story of a record about drugs, prostitution and weird sex that was made by Andy Warhol, was inspired by the denizens of his Factory, William S. Burroughs and the Fluxus art movement, was released, ignored, thrown in the garbage, dug out by a guy from Montreal and sold on eBay for $25,000.

Andy Warhol, put up the money and gave the freedom to a band called The Velvet Underground to release their first album. The songs were written by Lou Reed. He studied English at Syracuse University and loved the works of writers like William S. Burroughs and Hubert Selby Jr. He thought that combining the gritty subject matter of that kind of literature with rock and roll was an “obvious” thing to do.

The experimental sound of the album was conceived by John Cale who was influenced by experimental musicians like La Monte Young, John Cage and the early Fluxus movement. He and Lou Reed hacked their instruments and invented strange new tunings.

Andy Warhol designed the artwork for the album and, acting as the band’s manager, began to seek a record deal for the outfit.

He was rejected by one label after another. After a long delay, the album was finally picked up by legendary jazz label Verve: home of Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. Of all companies! But Verve barely supported the album at all. It was also banned from almost every radio station and record stores. Magazines wouldn’t even run advertisements for the album. It was just too strange and dark for most tastes in 1967.

The original demo of the album that had been pressed to vinyl was discarded and was lost and forgotten about until 2002 when a record collector from Montreal named Warren Hill found it at a flea market and bought it for 75 cents. By that time, history had shed new light on the album. Critics now hail it as a masterpiece. Spin Magazine put it on their very short list of the most influential albums of all time and Rolling Stonenamed it the most prophetic album ever made. When Warren Hill listed the album on eBay in 2006, it sold for a whopping $25,000.

Here’s one of the songs that people ignored, hated or ran away from, screaming, in 1967, but that is now regarded as a revolutionary classic. The story of a drug score called “I’m Waiting for the Man” by Velvet Underground.

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller "I Fought The Law"

Big Star "September Gurls"

The Hollies "Bus Stop"

Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Neil Young "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton "Jolene"

The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor "Fire And Rain"

The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. "Paper Planes"

The Animals "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse "Rehab"

New York Dolls "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"

George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA"

The Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones 'Miss You'

The Coasters 'Run Red Run'

Elvis Costello, 'Alison'

James Brown, 'Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)'

Inner Circle, 'Tenement Yard'

Ray Charles, 'I Don't Need No Doctor'

Curtis Mayfield, 'Freddy's Dead'

Gang Starr, 'Beyond Comprehension'

Bo Diddley, 'Bo Diddley'

Aretha Franklin, 'Rocksteady'

CCR, 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf, 'Smokestack Lightning'

Bobby Womack, 'Across 110th Street'

Roy Orbison, 'In Dreams'

Foggy Hogtown Boys, 'Man of Constant Sorrow'

Pink Floyd, 'Wish You Were Here'

Neil Young, 'Cortez The Killer'

Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

Little Eva, 'Loco-Motion'

Elvis Costello, 'Watching the Detectives'

Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come'

The Verve, 'Bittersweet Symphony'

Roberta Flack, 'Killing Me Softly with his Song'

R.E.M., 'Radio Free Europe'

Radiohead, 'No Surprises'

Led Zeppelin, 'Ramble On'

Glen Campbell, 'Wichita Lineman'

John Cougar Mellencamp, 'Pink Houses'

Rolling Stones, 'Beast of Burden'

Bob Dylan made his debut more than 50 years ago, and today he's considered, if not the most, at least one of the most influential artists in modern music. In the gallery above, we look back at how he got there. More specifically, we look at how 10 key moments elevated him from struggling folk artist to pop icon, all within the span of one decade — the '60s.

It's all in honour of the upcoming release of the Basement Tapes Complete, an extensive and complete recording of over 100 tracks Dylan and the Band recorded in a basement in upstate New York that would shape the face of popular music. You can stream a sample of the Basement Tapes Complete on CBC Music until Nov. 3. 

What do you think are the key moments in Dylan's career? Share it with me on Twitter: @JesseKG

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Bob Dylan in the '80s: Volume one

The Doobie Brothers new album is loaded from top to bottom with a number of high profile special guests. Southbound features the Doobies playing with Zac Brown Band, Blake Shelton, Toby Keith, Huey Lewis, Brad Paisley and Vince Gill, among others. Not that they need any additional star power. The Nashville band has been recording and performing roots-rock hits since the '70s, amassing an impressive collection of platinum and multi-platinum albums.

Southbound will be released on Nov. 4th on Sony Records, but you can listen to the entire album in advance by clicking on the player above. You can also preorder the album here.

Southbound Tracklist:

1. "Black Water" (with Zac Brown Band)
2. "Listen to the Music” (with Blake Shelton and Hunter Hayes on guitar)
3. "What a Fool Believes” (with Sara Evans)
4. "Long Train Runnin’” (with Toby Keith and Huey Lewis on harmonica)
5. "China Grove” (with Chris Young)
6. "Takin’ It to the Streets” (with Love and Theft)
7. "Jesus Is Just Alright” (with Casey James)
8. "Rockin’ Down the Highway” (with Brad Paisley)
9. "Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me)” (with Tyler Farr)
10. "South City Midnight Lady” (with Jerrod Niemann)
11. "You Belong to Me” (with Amanda Sudano Ramirez of the band Johnnyswim and Vince Gill on guitar)
12. "Nobody” (with Charlie Worsham)

Canadian Tour Date:
Oct. 31 Casino Rama Entertainment Centre Rama, Canada

Listen to the rest of CBC Music's First Play streams this week, including Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Montreal Symphony Orchestra and more.

Can we just take a minute to appreciate the fact that we live in a time in which a sludge metal band can achieve the sort of mainstream popularity that lets them be the musical guest on a network late night talk show? That would have been totally unimaginable even 10 years ago.

Anyway, Mastodon made the most of their appearance on the Late Show last night. Not only did they do a great version of "The Motherlode," guitarist Brett Hinds even got dressed up for the occasion.

It’s impossible to listen to the dramatic opening statement of J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor without your mind turning to vintage black-and-white horror flicks or things that go bump in the night.

But those notes haven’t always been interpreted as being spooky. Robert Schumann describes them as a reflection of Bach’s sense of humour. Meanwhile, Felix Mendelssohn predicts the piece’s eventual popularity when he called it“learned and for the people” in one of his letters.

So how did it come to be a soundtrack for all things scary?

The culprit here is Hollywood. Key placement in some early horror flicks is responsible for the piece's connection to the dark side. One of its first on-screen appearances was setting the atmosphere in the opening credits of the 1931 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, followed by an unlucky appearance in The Black Cat a few years later. But it was a scene in the 1962 Hammer Horror version of The Phantom of the Opera that cemented its spookiness, when the phantom himself plays it on his dusty underground organ. Ever since then, it’s been the go-to music to make a scene spooky in countless films, including Fantasia, Sunset Boulevard, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and, more recently, The Tree of Life.

What is less certain here is whether Bach even wrote the thing. With Bach’s original manuscript lost, some musicologists speculate that the piece may have been written by someone else. The version you hear today is a copy by Johannes Ringk, a student of a student of Bach’s. Researchers have pointed to several stylistic elements that seem unlikely to come from Bach, from its unusual dynamic markings to a style far from his normal writing for organ. In fact, another theory — introduced by English scholar Peter Williams— suggests that this work is indeed by Bach but was originally meant for a different instrument, like a solo violin or five-string cello. Whatever its origins, the piece’s prominence in popular culture proves that there is something very remarkable about it.

CBC Music asked organist Sarah Svendsen to play the work on Canada’s largest Casavant organ at Metropolitan United Church in Toronto. Watch the entire church rattle as the instrument’s 8,300 pipes resonate with one of classical music’s most misunderstood masterpieces, above.

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Lo-fi experimental artist Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the end of his alter-ego Dirty Beaches yesterday via Twitter.

This announcement comes as he is set to release an instrumental LP called Stateless on Nov. 4. Hungtai did not give a reason for ending Dirty Beaches, but added that he will continue making music under a different name:

Hi guys thank you all for the support of STATELESS, its sad to say goodbye to DB, but rest assured NEW PROJECTS NEW MUSIC COMING SOON 2015

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

this may not be a smart move & painful1 too, but in the long run I'll look back& be glad I moved on from Dirty Beaches. Thank you all x

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

RIP DIRTY BEACHES 2005-2014.

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014

Time to move on.

— Last Lizard (@dirtybeaches808) October 28, 2014 

You can listen to Stateless right now on Pitchfork Advance.

If you’re a Bob Dylan fan, chances are you want to hear the man himself traverse the wilderness of his own works.

But his songbook is so vast and deep, and the songs so densely crafted and varied, that artists can't help but flock to his material. As such, the world is chock full of Dylan covers and tributes that stretch the gamut from death metal to indie pop. It's daunting to dive in and parse the best from the mess.

Luckily we love a challenge, and in the gallery above, we’ve rounded up 10 of our favourite covers from a host of Canadian acts (including Leif Vollebekk, Ron Sexsmith and Metric) and a few international special guests (hey, Neko Case, Patti Smith and Antony) who find new ways to reinvent already great songs and pay tribute to a living legend.

You can also listen to Bob Dylan's The Basement Tapes Complete on CBC Music until Nov. 3.

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It's probably thanks to the vinyl revival of the last decade. After all, sales of vinyl LPs went up 32 per cent last year, from 2012, as CDs and even digital track purchases become less and less popular.

But maybe the reason why more new record stores have opened up in cities from coast to coast over the last few years is more than mass trends or sales figures: maybe it's simply because of community. A local, independent record store has its finger on the pulse of the underground; it hosts live, intimate shows featuring bands you love and bands you don't yet know you will; it employs your do-anything-for-the-dream musician pals; it's the nucleus of your local music scene. Every time a new shop opens up, it's a new opportunity to bring the community together.

So it's no wonder there have been many such celebrated openings of new record stores in cities from coast to coast. We've assembled a list of some of the latest to open their doors and lay roots in their communities over the last few years — click through the gallery above to learn more about some of Canada's newest independent record stores.

What's your favourite hometown independent record store? Are there more new ones missing from our list? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @CBCRadio3.

They're known for their highly choreographed, eye-popping videos, but Ok Go has outdone itself with the band's new clip for "I Won't Let You Down."

The drone-powered video sees the musicians riding around on self-balancing motorized unicycles and opening and closing colourful umbrellas as they weave through gaggles of Japanese schoolgirls.

For the final shot, the drone was reportedly sent nearly half a kilometre into the air, and captured 1,500 volunteers riding the small Honda scooters and making up the "pixels" of a ticker-style display.

According to Billboard, it is made up of one continuous shot and required 50 to 60 takes to get it right.

It's only been out for a couple of days, but the video has already clocked over 5.5 million views. Check it out:

Three times a week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. Today, Pete Morey steps in for Rich and gives the story behind "There's a Ghost in My House".

In the 1960's, Motown records became famous for its incredible roster of soul artists like Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, and the Jackson 5. The small row house in Detroit, where the studio was based, became a soul music factory pumping out hit after hit. The label was a tribute to Detroit’s nickname “Motor City”. It was as American as a eating apple pie, in a Ford Mustang.

They had an American song writing team that was without equal in Lamont Dozier and the brothers Eddie and Brian Holland. However, nestled in amongst all that American talent was the lone Canadian, R Dean Taylor. Richard Dean Taylor was born in Toronto. He stared singing in the early '60s and almost broke into the top 20 CHUM charts with his song, "I'll Remember".

He decided to move across the border to further his career. Not many people consider a move to Detroit good for the career, but in 1964 it was the place to be if you were a musician. He was taken on as a songwriter at Motown. He started working with the hit making trio Holland- Dozier-Holland. Together, they worked on his biggest hit "There's a Ghost in My House". It was a commercial flop. So he started writing for other artists at the label. He helped write some of the biggest hits for Diana Ross and the Supremes including "Love child", a number 1 hit.

R Dean Taylor had all but given up on a career as a singer. Then, 7 years after his spectral song failed to chart in North America, it became a number 3 smash in the UK. A new generation of Soul music fans in Northern England were looking for rare soul cuts they could dance the night away to at clubs like the Wigan Casino or the Blackpool Mecca. "There's a Ghost in my House" was a dance floor filler! It was a re-birth for Taylor’s career. So here’s a Canadian soul song from the lone Canuck at Motown studios. A chart smash in the UK. R Dean Taylor's "There's a Ghost in My House":

Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:

The Ronettes/Walking in the Rain

Buddy Holly/Peggy Sue

Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto/The Girl From Ipanema

Norman Greenbaum/Spirit in the Sky

Elvis Presley/Blue Suede Shoes

Johnny Cash/Ring of Fire

The Kinks/You Really Got Me

The Beatles/Yesterday

Al Green/Let's Stay Together

Simon and Garfunkel/The Boxer

Smokey Robinson and the Miracles/Tracks of my Tears

Elvis Presley/Heartbreak Hotel

Bruce Cockburn/Lovers In A Dangerous Time

The Doors - Light My Fire

Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix/All Along The Watchtower 

The Clash/London Calling

Phil Spector and the Ronnettes/Be My Baby

Os Mutantes/Ando Meio Desligado

The Diamonds/Little Darlin

Captain Beefheart/Yellow Brick Road

Elton John/Bennie and the Jets

Hank Williams/Long Gone Lonesome Blues

R.E.M./What's the Frequency, Kenneth?

Tom Waits/Jockey Full of Bourbon

Neil Diamond/Sweet Caroline

The Who/Pinball Wizard

Buffalo Springfield/For What It's Worth

Five Man Electrical Band/Signs

Band Aid/Do They Know It's Christmas

John Lennon/Imagine

The Ugly Ducklings/Nothin

Bob Dylan/Tangled Up In Blue

The Beatles/Norwegian Wood

The Pursuit of Happiness/I'm An Adult Now

Bruce Springsteen/Born To Run

Arcade Fire/Wake Up

Gnarls Barkley/Crazy

Big Joe Turner/Shake Rattle and Roll

Martha and the Muffins/Echo Beach

Wilson Pickett/In The Midnight Hour

The Band/The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Fleetwood Mac/Go Your Own Way

The Animals/House of the Rising Sun

Ian and Sylvia/Four Strong Winds

James Brown/Please Please Please

John Cougar Mellencamp, 'Pink Houses'

Leonard Cohen/Suzanne

The Ramones/I Wanna Be Sedated

Blue Rodeo/Try

The Guess Who/American Woman

U2/I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For

Janis Joplin/Me and Bobby McGee

Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind"

The Byrds "Eight Miles High"

Simon and Garfunkel "The Sound of Silence"

Bill Haley and his Comets "Rock Around The Clock"

The Velvet Underground "I'm Waiting For The Man"

Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues"

Bobby Fuller "I Fought The Law"

Big Star "September Gurls"

The Hollies "Bus Stop"

Joy Division "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

Booker T and the MGs "Green Onions"

Jimi Hendrix "Hey Joe"

Neil Young "Rockin' in the Free World"

Dolly Parton "Jolene"

The Left Banke "Walk Away Renee"

Lou Reed "Walk On The Wild Side"

James Taylor "Fire And Rain"

The Clash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"

Marvin Gaye "Sexual Healing"

Radiohead "Paranoid Android"

M.I.A. "Paper Planes"

The Animals "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"

Dusty Springfield "Son of a Preacher Man"

Screamin' Jay Hawkins "I Put A Spell On You"

Cheap Trick "Surrender"

Mott The Hoople "All the Young Dudes"

Beach Boys "Sloop John B"

Amy Winehouse "Rehab"

New York Dolls "Personality Crisis"

Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"

George Jones "He Stopped Loving Her Today"

Bruce Springsteen "Born in the USA"

The Beatles "With A Little Help From My Friends"

Rolling Stones 'Miss You'

The Coasters 'Run Red Run'

Elvis Costello, 'Alison'

James Brown, 'Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)'

Inner Circle, 'Tenement Yard'

Ray Charles, 'I Don't Need No Doctor'

Curtis Mayfield, 'Freddy's Dead'

Gang Starr, 'Beyond Comprehension'

Bo Diddley, 'Bo Diddley'

Aretha Franklin, 'Rocksteady'

CCR, 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain'

Howlin' Wolf, 'Smokestack Lightning'

Bobby Womack, 'Across 110th Street'

Roy Orbison, 'In Dreams'

Foggy Hogtown Boys, 'Man of Constant Sorrow'

Pink Floyd, 'Wish You Were Here'

Neil Young, 'Cortez The Killer'

Bob Dylan, 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

Little Eva, 'Loco-Motion'

Elvis Costello, 'Watching the Detectives'

Jimmy Cliff, 'The Harder They Come'

The Verve, 'Bittersweet Symphony'

Roberta Flack, 'Killing Me Softly with his Song'

R.E.M., 'Radio Free Europe'

Radiohead, 'No Surprises'

Led Zeppelin, 'Ramble On'

Rolling Stones, 'Beast of Burden'

Glen Campbell, 'Wichita Lineman'

This is strictly an anecdotal observation, but when it comes to writing songs, Canadian indie bands are way more interested in death and ghosts than joy and love.

Maybe it's the long winters, maybe it's a collective pragmatism, but whatever the reason, there's definitely a bright side. There are a lot of wonderfully, wicked options when curating the best twisted tunes for Halloween. 

All of the songs on our big, scary playlist can be found on CBC Music via our artist pages. Click through the gallery above to hear selections from Timber Timbre, Cold Specks, Wintersleep, Patrick Watson, Austra, the Burning Hell and more, plus every song has been paired with awesome, fun photos of dogs dressed up in Halloween costumes because we deserve to look at cute things and listen to great music.

Press play on the playlist at the top of this post or watch the music videos in the player below to keep the music going as you enjoy the monster mash-up of spooky tunes and super cute costumes.

What are your plans for Halloween? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @cbcradio3.

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