Rolling Stones debut first new single in six years, 'Doom and Gloom'
It’s been half a century since the Rolling Stones first formed, but judging by their latest single, “Doom and Gloom,” they still have a bit of the grit that’s made their brand of blues-rock so...
View ArticleJunk in the Trunk: Drive Stories Thursday October 11
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 ArticleASK GRANT: Grant Lawrence answers YOUR questions!
Today, we revisit a feature here on CBC Music which is very simple: #ASKGRANT. You turn the tables on the interviewer, the trivia master, the gadfly, and the perpetually (and sometimes very...
View ArticleEsprit Orchestra toasts R. Murray Schafer; Robert Gupta blends music and...
Esprit Orchestra's 30th anniversary season begins with a salute to Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer's 80th birthday; classical music meets neurobiology in the life of Robert Gupta; and the English...
View ArticleNicki Minaj and Stevie Nicks: time for a time out?
Last week, the internets buzzed with joy over the leak of behind-the-scenes footage of American Idol judges Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey freaking out at each other. But it wasn’t just A Tale of Two...
View ArticleBehind the scenes with the Closers: SonReal and Rich Kidd
Alex Narvaez works for The Strombo Show and has contributed to HipHopCanada.com. His most recent CBC Music piece was "Hip-hop battles over Polaris Music Prize: Drake vs. Cadence Weapon." Here, Narvaez...
View ArticleJustin Bieber, Ryan Gosling, Avril Lavigne and Celine Dion are related: study
Ancestry.ca has done some sleuthing and discovered that a host of Canadian celebrities share a bloodline with teen dream Justin Bieber. Among the moppet’s distant cousins are Ryan Gosling and Avril...
View ArticleLanarama: Back to basics
I never understood how people could eat plain donuts, drink black coffee or choose vanilla ice cream at Baskin Robins. “Why not sprinkles!?” “No cream and sugar?!” “You have the choice of 31 flavours,...
View ArticlePallade Musica wins grand prize at Baroque Performance Competition
Montreal's period instrument ensemble, Pallade Musica, was chosen as the grand prize winner at the first Baroque Performance Competition in New York City on Oct. 10. Six finalist ensembles competed in...
View ArticleBorn Gold releases two new tracks from Little Sleepwalker
Born Gold's Cecil Frena is set to release the followup to 2011's Bodysongs, which spawned hit tracks like "Lawn Knives," "Boring Horror" and "Wrinklecarver." Today, the Edmonton-based musician unveiled...
View ArticleWool on Wolves announce new album ‘Measures of Progress,’ national tour
Edmonton indie rock band Wool on Wolves will release its second record, Measures of Progress, Nov. 13. A collaborative five-piece of singer/songwriters, the band’s debut album, 2010’s Grey Matter,...
View ArticleDaphni's Jiaolong: Full album stream
Best known to most people these days as Caribou, Dan Snaith describes the inspiration for his latest project, produced under his Daphni alias, thusly: "During the time I was making the Caribou album...
View ArticleListen to the Top 20 for Oct. 12, 2012, and vote for next week's chart
Guess who's number one for the eighth week in a row? Find out tonight at 7 p.m. (7:30 NT). Plus, find out where Adele's new song landed on the chart. She's just one of seven hot new entries! Listen...
View ArticleListen to Ben Folds in conversation on the state of rock 'n' roll
A couple of weeks before Ben Folds Five released The Sound of the Life of the Mind on Sept. 18, Folds himself spoke to CBC Music about the band’s first new LP in 13 years. It was a wide-ranging chat,...
View ArticleQ&A: Robi Botos on Oscar Peterson, Branford Marsalis and more
Robi Botos has done something that not too many Canadian jazz musicians have done — he’s achieved international profile. Part of that is through performing with big-name players from outside of Canada....
View ArticleThe R3-30: Remembering John Denver
listenCheck out this week's edition of the chart as a handy dandy playlist or podcast (stream with the play button, download using the links to the right). It was 15 years ago this week that the music...
View ArticleShift and Over the Rainbow on October 12: Ian Tyson and Ella Fitzgerald
Welcome to Shift, where Tom Allen takes you on a daily musical journey from the stalwarts of Classical music to the cutting edge of Contemporary tunes. Join us here on CBC music for a round-up of the...
View ArticleCONTEST: Expand your Bandwidth!
Are you an Ontario musician or part of a band based in Ontario? Then here's your chance to win a LIVE STUDIO SESSION and FEATURE INTERVIEW on Bandwidth, Ontario's independent music show on CBC Radio...
View ArticleAbstract Artform delivers that Prairie boy hip-hop
Straight out of Manitoba, the Winnipeg-based rap collective known as Abstract Artform is all about putting its own distinctive twist on things when it comes to hip-hop. The genre is principally about...
View ArticleDivine Fits perform "Would That Not Be Nice" in Studio Q
Indie-rock combo, Divine Fits, comprised of Spoon's Britt Daniel, Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner, and New Bomb Turks' Sam Brown, perform "Would That Not Be Nice" from their debut album "A Thing Called...
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