SPF '12: Summer preview of jazz and world music festivals
Grab your (sun) hat and get your tote, and meet me at the music fest, just direct your feet to the summer festival side of the street. Yup, summer festival season is upon us, so it's good to map out...
View Article'Tracks on Tracks' arrives in Hogtown and we salute the humble train
Tracks on Tracks arrived today. Piles of semi-conscious R3 listeners and musicians poured out over the platform in waves to set siege to the city of Toronto for the rest of the week. It’s NXNE in...
View ArticleJimmie Rodgers and Jimmy Rogers, two guys with the same name
Often referred to as the father of country music, Jimmie Rodgers was born in Mississippi in 1897. It is no coincidence that it is also often considered that the blues as we know it today also came from...
View ArticleDrive Stories Wednesday, June 13
Each day, Radio 2 Drive wraps up 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...
View ArticleBanff Centre boasts Beethoven, baroque and beautiful views
Are you planning to be a classical music tourist this summer? To pack your shades, shorts and flip-flops and hit the road in search of fresh air, sunshine and great music? CBC Music is all over this...
View ArticleRadio 2 Morning story round-up, Wednesday June 13
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...
View ArticleMaking it 2.0, from Jimmy Fallon duets to holograms
Not that long ago, music artists really knew they had made it when they heard their song on the radio. Then they watched it peak on the Billboard charts, and watched their records go on to sell in the...
View ArticleWinnipeg Jazz Festival 2012: Paul Nolin’s guide
The 2012 Winnipeg International Jazz Festival opens Thursday, June 14, for 10 days of programming featuring almost 100 artists. CBC Music asked Paul Nolin, Jazz Winnipeg's executive producer, to...
View ArticleMundo Montreal: Zal Sissokho and friends
Every year since 2008, the Mundo Montreal concert series, produced by CBC Montreal, brings together various artists from Quebec’s world music scene for a special collaborative event. In a spirit of...
View ArticleWhere does Billy Corgan want to urinate?
No, not on Bozo the Clown. Radiohead. Smashing Pumpkins frontman, Billy Corgan, wants to pee on Radiohead. Not in those words, of course. And, not literally, I hope. But, in a recent interview on...
View Article5 for 20: Bry Webb
When you’re an influential musician, people tend to ask you what you’ve been listening to lately. Here at 5 for 20, we’re just as keen to find out what records loom large in our favourite artists’...
View ArticleMust listen: the fuzzed-out retro sound of Mac DeMarco
Montreal's Mac DeMarco hits Radio 3 with "Baby's Wearing Blue Jeans", his latest AM radio retro-jam. http://music.cbc.ca/play/artist/Mac-DeMarco/Babys-Wearing-Blue-JeansWhile Mac DeMarco's known for...
View ArticleSolo Projects, and the R3 NXNE Schedule!
Today’s guest: Dusted Sure the music life is tough, but sometimes I get a little jealous. I can barely play the kazoo, let alone be in Holy Fuck and be working on my second solo project (Brian...
View ArticleHowlin’ Wolf to Snooky Prior: Top 10 coolest names in blues
There is a reason it's called the blues. The music has been steeped in colourful language since the first voices rose from the cotton fields. Songs like “Got My Mojo Workin,” “Hoochie Coochie Man” and...
View ArticlePhilip Glass on Q
Prolific and versatile American composer Philip Glass is considered one of the most important and influential forces in modern music. He broke the conventions of Western art music back in the 1960s and...
View ArticleWintersleep on Q
Juno Award-winning Halifax/Montreal-based band Wintersleep returns with their fifth studio album Hello Hum. The band performs songs from it live in Studio Q. LISTEN Wintersleep on Q
View ArticleA pause for thought with Rah Rah's 'Little Poems'
A pause for thought: For years scholars and academics thought that “Fleas” was world's shortest poem. It went like this… Adam Had ‘em. Then along came a boxer (who had a way with words) named Muhammad...
View ArticleCowboy Junkies hit the road
On the June 14 edition of Canada Live, we present our recent live recording of Cowboy Junkies. The Junkies charted several platinum and gold albums here in Canada, from the late 1980s through the...
View ArticleNotNXNE draws Tragically Hip's Paul Langlois
If you're in Toronto for the North by Northeast music festival, there is certainly no shortage of options for a night of music. But there's one option you might not know about. A bar called 3030 Dundas...
View ArticleWednesday night dance party feat. Trombone Shorty and Quique Escamilla
Tonight on Canada Live, we get your speakers bumpin' with "Superfunkrock", courtesy of New Orleans musical ambassador Trombone Shorty, followed by Mexican mashup from Quique Escamilla. Trombone Shorty...
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