Radio 2 Morning story round-up, Monday July 30
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 ArticleReal Cool Time: Cowpunk
The word "cowpunk" has been on my mind a lot this week. Mainly because I think genres are hilarious and I like to know all of the most ridiculous ones to use in case I start a new experimental band...
View ArticleOn air: Covers you (probably) didn't know were covers
It's happened to the best of us... you're telling a friend about this great song you love, and they say "oh yeah, that's a cover of insert random name of band". Wait... that was a cover? In honour of...
View ArticleNever Destroy Us: The Dears at Pasagüero
The Dears bandleader Murray Lightburn likes to take things apart before building their prime elements into better-working things. In the months leading up to directing his debut film, Never Destroy Us:...
View ArticleHow I Write: Jim Bryson
This series asks songwriters to describe their writing process, and what influences them. Here, Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Jim Bryson. How I write could be called how I don't write a certain amount...
View ArticleRADIOGRAHAM - Reinventing the band
I was checking out the (characteristically terrific) line up for the Live At Squamish Festival when I noticed something that piqued my interest - "A Motown Tribute To Nickelback". Obviously I did some...
View ArticleTake 5: Canada's top 5 female jazz singers
One thing Canada has an abundance of is wonderful singers. A great singer is a great singer regardless of his or her sex, but it's the fairer sex that is most prominent in Canadian jazz these days....
View ArticleCover Wars: 'Hallelujah'
In celebration of CBC Music’s new Killer Covers stream, we’re pitting some of the most famous cover versions against the originals. Once a day for two weeks we'll post an original song and its cover,...
View ArticleDrive Stories Monday, July 30
Each day, Rich Terfry and 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...
View ArticleGrant Lawrence Live: wedding bells - what is the perfect wedding soundtrack?
Ok, here's the deal. We are officially in peak wedding season. I feel that pretty much my entire month of August will be taken up by going to weddings, all over Canada. Many Canadian musicians are...
View ArticleListen: Federal Lights 'I Don't Mind'
Winnipeg's Federal Lights are shining on Radio 3 with "I Don't Mind", a dreamy folk-pop strummer. http://music.cbc.ca/play/artist/Federal-Lights/I-Dont-MindFrom the album Carbon, the track is a mellow...
View ArticleDark Knight Rises composer Hans Zimmer pens homage to Colorado victims
Hans Zimmer, the composer of the original score for The Dark Knight Rises, has composed and recorded a piece of choral music, Aurora, dedicated to the victims of the recent mass killing in Colorado. In...
View ArticleChildish Gambino takes hip-hop to Camp
There’s a line in the track “That Power” off the album Camp that perfectly summarizes Donald Glover’s rap career as Childish Gambino: “For every black ‘You’re not black enough,’ there’s a white ‘You’re...
View ArticlePolaris juror Mike Devlin on why Japandroids should take the prize
Japandroids' Celebration Rock is our Polaris shortlisted album stream of the week. The record was number one on juror Mike Devlin's ballot. The Victoria Times Colonist music writer argues the...
View ArticleMichael Kaeshammer and Bombino: boogie-woogie meets Saharan blues
Tonight's episode of Canada Live is a study in contrasts. Michael Kaeshammer is a first-world artist, trained in classical piano, lured by jazz, and steeped in boogie-woogie. He's now making a name...
View ArticleThe xx on Q
After the whirlwind success of their self-titled debut album, Mercury Prize-winning electronic pop band The xx weren't sure they'd even make a follow-up record. But after taking some time off touring,...
View ArticleA$AP Rocky, Grimes, Jay-Z, Lil B, Drake make Rap N.E.W.S.
Here’s what made the news today, Monday, July 30, 2012: A$AP Rocky made a surprise appearance at a Weird Magic party in Brooklyn over the weekend, and performed alongside Montreal's Grimes. Jay-Z...
View ArticleHow Cold Specks almost missed her big break
For many artists, a showcase on the venerable British music show Later... with Jools Holland is a very big deal. The BBC show, now in its 20th year, schedules emerging acts alongside established...
View ArticleKathleen Edwards owns the podium on CBC Music
If musical achievements were the same as sporting competitions Kathleen Edwards would break some kind of world record this week. She is standing - somehow - on all three steps of the podium. Bet that...
View ArticleMusic Notes: Dan Mangan, Grimes, Daphni, much more!
A look at the top ten artists on CBC Music – CBC Get your first look at the new Dan Mangan documentary called “What Happens Next?” – CBC Radio 3 Arkells to perform on GST on Tuesday, k-os on Wednesday...
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