Lonely Road Trip Podcast with guest host, Torquil Campbell of Stars, Podcast...
listen This week on the Radio 3 podcast, Stars' Torquil Campbell takes over driving duties from Grant Lawrence… literally. For the next hour or so, Torquil will take you on a musical road trip of this...
View ArticleThe R3-30: Cadence Weapon comes clean on Grimes + Your Favourite #2 Songs!
CHART #291 listenCheck out this week's edition of the chart as a handy dandy playlist or just click the play button to listen to the podcast version. Besides counting down this week's most popular...
View ArticleNext! goes to Edmonton
Tonight on Canada Live, we press on with our Next! series - a yearly overview of rising Canadian talent. There are no guarantees in the music business, but we feel if anyone can make it, these folks...
View ArticleVeterans of Canadian indie: the psychedelic pop of By Divine Right
For as long as there's been a "Canadian scene" (and maybe longer), By Divine Right has been in the middle of it, cranking out psychedelic pop jams since 1992. Jose Contreras and his rotating cast of...
View ArticleTop 5 Must See Live Gigs...& Where Do You Get Film Recommendations?
Today's guest: Trevor Anderson from The Wet Secrets. It's the weekend! Almost. So, to get your weekend plans started we've combed through the concert calendars and fused them with some of your...
View ArticleThe week in country music: April 27, 2012
Levon Helm buried next to Rick Danko Levon Helm, who died of cancer last week, was remembered on Thursday at his Woodstock home by his family, friends and fans. After a private funeral today, Helm is...
View ArticleJazz fact or fiction: Dizzy Gillespie's unusually shaped trumpet
One of the most iconic photos in jazz is Dizzy Gillespie blowing his unusually shaped trumpet. It was unusual because the bell of the horn points upwards at a 45-degree angle. No one before had played...
View ArticleThe Q Interview: The Kills
The Kills have been making bare-bones, compelling, inventive blues-inflected rock for a dozen years. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince join Jian in Studio Q to talk about their enduring partnership...
View Article#StarWarsBands: When music and sci-fi collide
Earlier this week, our music and film-geek senses heightened, we jumped all over the #starwarsbands hashtag on Twitter. Mashing band names with Star Wars characters and themes, the meme became...
View ArticleLive Right Now Capital of Canada's workout playlist
CBC’s Live Right Now healthy-living campaign is in full swing on all of our platforms, so it seemed the perfect time for a workout playlist. Edmundston, N.B., was recently crowned the Live Right Now...
View ArticleMust listen: Eamon McGrath's new bowl full of delicious punk and rock
Edmonton's Eamon McGrath unleashes another bombastic punk influenced rock blast with "Instrument Of My Release." http://music.cbc.ca/play/artist/Eamon-Mcgrath/Instrument-of-My-ReleaseThe latest from...
View ArticleThe Dudes’ Canadian tour diary: ‘Shotgun, whiz, shotgun’
Back in 2007, CBC Radio 3 had some fun with the Dudes when they made an audio version of their infamous and hilarious tour diary on Episode #91 of the CBC Radio 3 podcast. Well, the rough and tumble...
View ArticleQ&A: Zodiac moves past the Weeknd to new collaborations
It’s such a Canadian thing to discover a homegrown artist through another country. I first heard music by Zodiac (a.k.a. Jeremy Rose) on Gilles Peterson’s BBC Radio 1 show. The legendary DJ played...
View ArticleObama awards Bob Dylan with Presidential Medal of Freedom
Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will among the thirteen Americans presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama later this spring. The list, announced today by...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Caribou, Joe Keithley, Grimes, more!
Caribou: opening act for Radiohead’s Euro tour dates – Clash Music D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley to run for BC’s NDP party in next year’s provincial election – National Post Grimes launches jewelry line –...
View ArticleRap N.E.W.S. 27/04/2012
Here’s what made the news today, Friday, April 27, 2012: Skratch Bastid kicks off his Skratch of All Trades show in Toronto tonight. Jay-Z and 50 Cent have each launched Facebook gaming apps. In...
View ArticleFresh Friday with Apollo Ghosts, Purity Ring, Joel Plaskett, and more!
Hey gang. It's Dave Shumka filling in for Lisa Christiansen. I haven't hosted for a little while so I hope I can still remember how to work the metallic talk device. Oh, I just forgot the word for...
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Reid Jamieson rides a ‘Rail’ to John Lennon
Reid Jamieson is a Canadian singer-songwriter, formerly of Toronto, but now firmly based in Vancouver. You may have heard him on CBC’s Vinyl Cafe with Stuart McLean. I asked Jamieson to describe...
View ArticleIn Concert quiz: Achtung Baby
For the past few weeks on In Concert, the quiz has celebrated places that have been immortalized in music. Since there is so much great Germanic music on the program this Sunday, this week our quiz...
View ArticleCamerata Nova wows audience with Winnipeg Jets chant
This Sunday on Choral Concert the program is entirely dedicated to chant in all its forms, from early Gregorian chant right up to the here and now. The featured concert is from Camerata Nova...
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