Winnipeg’s Streetz FM caters to urban Aboriginal youth market
CBC Music asked David McLeod, CEO of Native Communications Incorporated, to write about Streetz FM this week for its campaign to be named Winnipeg’s favourite radio station. What makes Streetz so...
View ArticleLetter to my teacher: Suzie Vinnick
On the first Monday in May each year, schools across Canada celebrate the impact of music and music education with Music Monday. To mark the occasion, we invited several prominent Canadian musicians...
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Postcards from Barney Bentall: Nice to Cinque Terre
Barney Bentall is a Canadian gem. Multitalented, Bentall is a platinum-selling and Juno Award-winning musician with a deep-rooted solo career, but is best known for being the leader of Vancouver’s much...
View ArticleR3 Weekend: Celebrates The "Birthday Boys" Dan Mangan & Bahamas
Hey Welcome to R3 weekend this Saturday the 28th April. Today on the show we celebrate some special birthday boys who are playing shows tonight on their b-days Afie Jurvanen AKA Bahamas is playing a...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Do The Saturday Shimmy!
It's Saturday! Not too shabby! Every week before I do these shows, I do some internet digging to look for fun stuff to talk about. This week, I found a couple of those music videos that someone made...
View ArticleWeekday songs: ‘Sunday Morning’ with k-os
This week we’re highlighting a song for each day of the week – songs written about the Mondays to Sundays. A day marks a spin of the earth. Twenty-four little hours, but each day of the week carries...
View ArticleNew Release from Del Barber!
Only one new release in the show today! That can't be right, can it?!? I mean, I know that K'naan and Blinker The Star have releases out today, but I don't have them in the show. What you'll hear is a...
View ArticleMust listen: Long Distance Runners' musical version of a used leather jacket
Newfoundland's Long Distance Runners race onto Radio 3 bringing rock from the rock with "Election Day", a big shiny song full of '60s guitars and incandescent organs....
View ArticleMe Myself and YouTube: Top 3 NBA ballers/rhyme callers
There have been more than a few forgettable NBA players (Troy Hudson) whose rhyme skills matched their middling play on the court. But with multimillion dollar day jobs to fall back on, no one was ever...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up Wednesday May 2
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 ArticleVideo: 'Old Skool Love' by Divine Brown
Divine Brown performs a special video only session in CBC Music's Studio 211. This is her song 'Old Skool Love' from her debut self titled album. Embedded Video Check back on Wednesday May 2nd for...
View ArticleASK GRANT! Grant Lawrence Answers YOUR Questions.
Today, we revisit a feature on CBC Radio 3 which is very simple: #ASKGRANT. You turn the tables on the interviewer, the trivia master, the gadfly, and the perpetually (and sometimes very occasionally...
View ArticleRock of Ages film brings big stars with big hair
The year is 1987. The place is Los Angeles. Rock music is alive, but the hard rockin’ variety of the genre is getting a little long in the tooth. Think Twisted Sister and Journey. Times are tough for...
View ArticleThe Kills perform "Nail in My Coffin" in Studio Q
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince deliver a stirring acoustic performance of "Nail in my Coffin" in Studio Q from their latest album "Blood Pressures".
View ArticleShift is Struttin' with barbecued beats & songs that sizzle
It's chow time in the palatial (read: tiny) backyards of the (not even close to independent) duchy of Shift, and we, your hosts, are turning up the heat on barbecue history, terminology, tunes and...
View ArticleLetter to my teacher: Royal Wood
On the first Monday in May each year, schools across Canada celebrate the impact of music and music education with Music Monday. To mark the occasion, CBC Music invited several prominent Canadian...
View ArticleJohn Peel's record collection goes online
From 1967 until his death in 2004, the BBC's John Peel came to be known as the voice of new and eclectic music in the U.K. and around the world. Originally poached by the BBC from the off-shore pirate...
View ArticleMUTEK curator Patti Schmidt gives sneak peak of festival
Last week, CBC Radio 3's Tariq Hussain sat down for a chat with Patti Schmidt, one of this country’s underground music luminaries. Schmidt is perhaps best known as the voice of CBC's legendary Brave...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Sled Island, Grimes, Metric, more!
Nelly Furtado and Justin Bieber confirmed to perform at the 2012 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, airing May 20 on ABC – Billboard Grimes confirmed to perform for NYC’s annual RiverRocks concert...
View ArticleThe Very Best parody Lil Wayne’s ‘A Milli’
You might remember The Very Best from a couple years ago when the band released an album called Warm Heart of Africa, in which they collaborated with Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend and M.I.A. The...
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