CBC Music celebrates Record Store Day 2012
Since 2008, independent record shop around the world have come together on the third Saturday in April to mark "Record Store Day." With the support of artists ranging from Arcade Fire to Metallica, the...
View ArticleSpot the narc on 4/20
This Friday is April 20, known to some as 4/20. It’s a day when people celebrate a certain herb and sit in a drum circle, or line up for a matinee of Koyaanisqatsi. It’s also a day when you might find...
View ArticleFresh Friday with the Ketamines, Fanny Bloom and more!
It’s here – Friday, and Fresh Friday. Today’s the day you get to hear all the new music coming to the CBC Radio 3 playlist. Lots of fine stuff coming your way… amongst all the regular finery you expect...
View ArticleSearching for Canadian Minimal Wave releases
A week ago, we posted a link to a New York Times article on Veronica Vasicka, founder of the indie Brooklyn music label Minimal Wave. The seven-year-old label is dedicated to re-releasing obscure...
View ArticleEarth Day at CBC Music: 100-Mile Diet soundtracks to jazz eco-tips
Sometimes, like maybe on a beautiful spring day, it’s impossible not to think, “Hey, I see skies of blue!” And next thing you know, you think to yourself, “What a wonderful world.” That’s a pretty good...
View ArticleAnonymous launches Anontune, a social music service
The mustachioed mask has reared its menacing face again, but this time the hacker group Anonymous isn’t taking down a major website – they are actually trying to give back. Well, sort of. The group is...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2012: Holger Petersen’s favourite record shops
Record stores are my favourite places to spend time. I have the benefit of travelling extensively in my day job and make a point of hitting as many stores as I can in my travels. Here are a few I’ve...
View ArticleEarth Day playlist from authors of 100-Mile Diet
When Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon released their book The 100-Mile Diet: A Year of Local Eating in 2007, I don’t know if they realized it would become a media phenomenon. But that’s exactly what...
View ArticleMastodon covers Feist’s ‘A Commotion’
In honour of Record Store Day, there are many exclusive releases coming out to mark the occasion. As previously reported, the Flaming Lips are releasing a record with basically everyone who has ever...
View ArticleRecord Store Day 2012: How stores from Nashville to Reykjavik are (or aren't)...
Saturday marks the fifth annual Record Store Day. It's a day designed for independent record shops around the world to shine, where they receive exclusive releases from artists (this year's...
View Article11 Canadian bands who are touring green
Go green! That’s the mantra some Canadian musicians are choosing to follow when they hit the road. With record sales lagging, more bands have been touring to make ends meet, and it's not without a cost...
View ArticleMahler’s Song of the Earth at Concerts on Demand
Earth Day did not exist in 1908 when Gustav Mahler began composing his Symphony for Tenor and Alto Voice and Orchestra, otherwise known as Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth.) In fact,...
View ArticleConductor Matthias Maute gets his adrenalin rush from Bach
Adrenalin Rush is our series on music that quickens your pulse and gives you goosebumps. Montreal conductor and baroque flutist Matthias Maute gets his adrenalin rush from J. S. Bach, specifically the...
View ArticleIn Concert quiz: America the Beautiful
When I think of quintessentially American classical music, I think of wide open spaces, and of the world being a place of endless possibilities. Listening to the music of Samuel Barber or Aaron Copland...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: The top five things that happen to you when you work in a record...
Independent record stores are an endangered species and they're about to head the way of the dodo if we're not careful. If you go into your local record store today on Record Store Day you might find...
View ArticleThe Vinyl Countdown: It's Record Store Day!
To someone raised in the MP3 era, the idea of buying music stored on a slab of pressed vinyl, which can only be listened to using a non-portable machine with a needle, might seem a little strange. And...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM Celebrates Record Store Day!
Hola! And a very happy Record Store Day to you! I have a hunch that most of you Radio 3 listeners are pretty big fans of records. I am too! So Record Store Day always gives me the warm fuzzies. I get...
View ArticleHot this week: Garrick Ohlsson, Bax/Chung Piano Duo
Here’s your classical Hot Ticket for the week of April 23rd, brought to you by CBC Radio 2’s In Concert. Hot Ticket #1: A Musical Feast in Kelowna Who: Dale Barltrop, violin; David Harding, viola;...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM Celebrates Earth Day!
Happy Earth Day, folks! When I was a kid, my parents would encourage my to turn out lights when I left the room by invoking the enviro-friendly spirit of Captain Planet. It worked! I have a lot of...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: 50 things to do before you're eleven and three quarters
Hey it is Sunday April 22nd EARTH DAY on R3 weekend. Time to give Mother Nature some serious love. Many nature related stories today. How recycling old art work found at a garage sale could bring you...
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