Dominic Mancuso's food for your soul playlist
Dominic Mancuso had one of the best Canadian albums of 2010 — that album, Comfortably Mine, won the Juno Award for world music album of the year, and also won the 2010 Canadian Folk Music Award for...
View ArticleRap N.E.W.S. 25/04/2012
Here’s what made the news today, Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Drake has stated that his upcoming third album may have a different feel than the recent Take Care, mostly because he’s moved from Toronto to...
View ArticleTony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers: Feature Interview [REPEAT]
It’s Album of the Week Day. Well, it’s not actually an official day or anything. Though let me say April 3 for historical moments is pretty thin, with the exception of this gem from 1930: Montreal...
View ArticleCBC Radio remembers the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra
Tune in to The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One on April 29 to hear David Gutnick’s documentary It wasn’t teatime: Ethel Stark and the Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra. In 1940 Ethel Stark helped...
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AWESOME THING OF THE DAY: Wolverine Meets Freddie Mercury
In the long history of comic books, there have been lots of unlikely meetings between characters, often in the pages of official publications: Batman and Captain America crossing the Marvel/DC divide...
View ArticlePatrick Watson dishes on his new album and the weirdos you meet on the road
Patrick Watson performed at Glenn Gould Studio on Wednesday, April 11 for an invite-only audience. I consider myself very lucky to have been there for this amazing night of music. Happily, CBC Music...
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Paul Pigat lists 10 most influential rockabilly tunes
"Hot enough to raise sweat on a chunk of granite!" says Vancouver’s Monday Magazine. I say: Paul Pigat has a really great job, lots of them actually. But what it comes down to is that Pigat is Canada’s...
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Louise Burns shares her shuffle playlist
The first time I saw Louise Burns perform, she was playing songs from her debut solo album Mellow Drama at a free lunch hour concert outside of CBC Vancouver. It’s difficult to engage people who are...
View ArticleEdmund Milly hopes for runaway success
Young baritone Edmund Milly is a professional chorister in Montreal. He’s also studying English literature at McGill University, and plans to build his career somewhere in that intersection where words...
View ArticleConductor William Eddins hosts This Is My Music
Maestro William Eddins is taking the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra to Carnegie Hall. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, which the Edmonton Symphony has been doing for 60 years. Eddins has been...
View ArticleWagner's Die Walküre, live from the Met
Hoy yoh toh hoh! The Valkyries ride again, in the most popular portion of Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, coming to you this week on CBC Radio 2 in Robert Lepage's new production from the Metropolitan Opera....
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Shambhala Music Festival keeps it all in the family
Shambhala is a family, right down to its core. Whereas most major festivals in North America are run by entertainment conglomerates like Live Nation, Shambhala, the largest festival in Western Canada...
View ArticleWhat's Your Beef? w/ Great Lake Swimmers, Arkells, Cowboy Junkies & more!
Pet peeves. Beefs. Goat-getters. Gear-grinders. Wrong-way-rubbings. OK, maybe that last one is a stretch, but you see what I'm driving at. The Listener Co-Host did not come to fruitation so I'm going...
View ArticlePete Seeger earns American Academy of Arts and Letters honour
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced that Pete Seeger will be the recipient of a Distinguished Service Award from the academy. There is even a chance that the 92-year-old folk music...
View ArticleMust listen: Harvest Breed brings back the 70s guitar sing-along
From Montreal comes Harvest Breed with "You Know?" a twangy rock throwback to the days of '70s guitar sing-alongs. http://music.cbc.ca/play/artist/Harvest-Breed/You-KnowOff the album Everything...
View ArticleSnow Patrol on Q
Irish pop band Snow Patrol, currently on tour across North America, have been together for 14 years and are at U2 and Coldplay levels of popularity in the U.K. They drop by Studio Q to chat and perform...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Friday April 27
Each day, Radio 2 Morning starts your day with music and stories about the interesting things going on in the world. Now, you can follow along at home. Here are the stories we're talking about today....
View ArticleFinding Your Groove w/ Electronic Music
Today's guest: Patti Schmidt Good morning R3 friends! So, I have a confession to make. Yesterday I did something I don’t normally do. (Scandalous, I know. Well, not really). I listened to the...
View ArticleTaylor Swift may play Joni Mitchell in Girls Like Us adaptation
In 2008, author Sheila Weller released a booked entitled Girls Like Us. It chronicled the lives of Carole King, Carly Simon and Joni Mitchell and the impact their music made on the ’60s generation....
View ArticleThe Q Interview: Emeli Sandé
The UK Singer/Songwriter is the next big thing across the pond, opening gigs for Coldplay, a Brit Awards Critic's Choice, and more. She makes her Canadian broadcast debut on Q and talks about her...
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